Meet Writeup: (video to come later)
Was very nervous, but thanks to my training partners and some other folks I knew at the meet the whole experience went probably as smoothly as a first meet could possibly go.
The lifts had to be in kilograms, so it made my numbers a little weird.
Squat:
Warmups felt good.
One of my training partners was impeccable with his knee wrap timing so that he finished wrapping exactly when I needed to go. Also the wraps were very good. Super thankful for that.
172.5kg - 380.3lbs Good lift.
187.5kg - 402.3lbs Good lift.
192.5kg - 424.4lbs Good lift. PR
This is probably a terrible attitude to have, but going in I honestly didn’t think I would get all three of my squats lol. But I managed to not fuck up for 15 seconds as Kirk Karwoski would say.
Bench:
Finished my warmups like 20 minutes early. They waited an inexplicably long time to start lifting after the bench was all set up. Who knows.
130.0kg - 286.6lbs No lift. Red lighted for feet touching the bench. My feet were tucked under me and close enough together that my heels were in contact with the bar underneath the bench itself. I had no idea that was even a rule, so I was a bit thrown off.
140.0kg - 308.6lbs Good lift. I went up in weight anyway, but not as much as I had planned. I was going to make somewhere around 315 my second attempt, but I was pretty psyched out by missing my opener, so I just took this.
150.0kg - 330.7lbs No lift. Just too weak to do that today. I could blame it on messing with my foot position or having my attempts changed up unexpectedly or whatever. I dunno it just wasn’t there. I’ve done more than that in training, and I was pretty disappointed.
Deadlift:
Warmups were fine.
207.5kg - 457.5lbs Good lift.
227.5kg - 501.6lbs Good lift.
237.5kg - 523.6lbs No lift. I did lock it out, but I hitched it, although it wasn’t a very bad hitch at all. I’m not super disappointed in the deadlift; my deadlift training hasn’t been good for a long time leading up to the meet, so I was okay that I at least got something over 5.
So my total was 560kg or 1234.59lbs (I think I’ll just give away that last .09lbs so I can say I totaled 1234.5).
The meet was very well run. I had a really great time. Everyone there was quite friendly. There were some very strong guys there too. One dude (I just called him “Spikey Hair Guy”) totaled about 1650 raw at 198. There was also this old man in his 60’s who did a full meet, and actually lifted legit amounts of weight. He looked kinda hunched and frail, but he had like a four hundred something deadlift!
The judging at this meet was TIGHT. Very strict calls, which is cool. One of the judges was Joe Ladnier. He’s still jacked as absolute hell.
I’m certainly glad to have finally done a meet. I didn’t really like training up to it at all, but I loved the actual meet itself. I’m excited now that I get to go back to training as hard as I want without having to worry about tapering or dialing back or whatever. I do think I’d like to do another one. One of my training partners (the guy who did my knee wraps and stuff) filmed everything. He’s going to edit together the video and send it to me, so as soon as he does I’ll put it up here.
