Not sure where this entry is going to go really, just going to type away and see where it takes me. Saturday went well, though not everything to plan. I had wanted to just do openers and make the world qualifiers, but another dude turned up in my age and weight class, so I had to push on a bit. As follows:
Squat: 190, 200, 210
Bench: 120, 130, 135*
Dead: 210, 232.5 -
* = missed lift.
Surprised by my squat. My working sets are only 137.5kg at the moment, so to put up 210 without being anywhere near close to a peak is very reassuring. I aim to squat 500lb by the summer. Bust quite a few capillaries on the 210 squat. My eyebrows were a bit purple and my neck kinda speckled. I had a sore head most of the day and it didn't let up until yesterday. I thought I'd got rid of it, but the pain has come back today, which sucks.
My bench, poo, as usual. I had the 135 and knew it so I relaxed and the bar dropped a tad, failing me on the lift, though I continued to press and lock it out. Deadlift, easy peasy. 232.5 not as easy as it used to be, but again, working sets are much lower than this. I start a new beastly deadlift routine that I thought up tomorrow :) Because I am only shooting at about 60-70% at the moment I had to play tactics on Saturday. The first time I've had to do so in competition. It was good to nail that as well. Thanks to everyone involved at the competition, especially Peter Leitch who put in a hell of a lot of effort organizing it. I know how crap it is to be in that position.
As regards studying today I polished up the last few bits of my dissertation and started putting it into powerpoint slides for the presentation I have to do on it next week. That's about the height of my work today. Was in Centaur training this evening, which I enjoyed. Tomorrow is going to be some microbiology as I am seriously behind in that. Seriously behind meaning I haven't started! I also need to do some anatomy and finish off the presentation I started today. Sounds like tomorrow will be exciting :S
Thought for the Day:
"We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow."
Peace
bEn
2 comments:
Mate, for the squats, how deep do you go for a full squat? Any good articles on proper powerlifting squats or videos? Cheers.
Hey man, how's you? This is the required depth in competition:
http://www.usapowerlifting.com/newsletter/06/novice/squata.jpg
I normally go deeper in training. I will post anything good I come across on this blog. I'll do an entry with a few tips as well in the near future ;)
Thanks for the comment!
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