NASA Regionals
Waukesha Expo Center
Masters 1 (40-49) / Un-equipped / 181
body-weight: 8 weeks out , 188 ; 3 days out , 184 (after 4 days of high water intake) ; friday night weigh-in , 179.75 (after 1.5 day drought) . calorie intake was only slightly altered leading up to meet ; diet was cleaned up about 1 week out .
goal : 920 pounds . this would beat my first equipped meet’s total by 1 pound .
squat
1st lift 315 1 white/2 red called for depth
2nd lift 315 good lift ( but still felt shaky)
3rd lift 347 good lift (easiest of the 3)
bench
1st 200 good lift
2nd 210 good lift
3rd 215 3 reds ( bar stopped at about 10")
deadlift
1st 305 good lift ( too light for opener)
2nd 341 good lift
3rd 352 good lift PR (had another 15 in me)
Total 910 missed goal by 10 pounds .
largely due to meltdown in the mono-lift
lessons learned…
squat : severe meltdown on 1st attempt . I think I didnt get enough cool-down between warm-up and 1st lift . over stimulated , lack of focus , stupid-fuck type of shit .even the 2nd one at 315 felt squirrely . I was fully expecting a PR attempt of about 365 on the 3rd lift . but I didnt want to risk another missed lift , so I took 347 . everybody said the 347 was the best of the 3 lifts . go figure . this was a classic case of the “head-fucks” .
bench : wasnt expecting anything here ; worst lift , and the hardest for me to gain ground on . however , the fact that I missed the 215 so high shows progress from the past of missing the same weight barely off the chest. previous accessory focus has been on chest/back mass ; time to switch focus to tricep strength (2 brd/3 brd/narrow-grip accessory work and ME work) , while continuing with DB work in the 5 rep to 10 rep range .
deadlift : the final lift at 352 was a 7 pound PR . it came up quite easy . pretty sure I had another 15 to spare . deadlift training the last 10 months has been less frequent than what I used to do , but with more accessory moves (GM’s , SLDL) ; but it seems to have progressed more than I realised . that rocks . ala Westside ?
next 6 months : starts with a week off . then another 2 weeks off from squatting ; really need to let my foot get healed . probably start back up with some box-squatting to get the foot going again with lighter loads .
then I’m thinking back into Westside style training or 5/3/1 .
emphasis will be placed on triceps training to get that bench moving ; but not neglecting the need for additional upper body mass as well (lats/chest/delts).
next meet on the radar is the Halloween night WI NASA Meet . again un-equipped , hopefully 181 . I’ll run an 8 week peaking cycle prior to that .