6 Months Out From Next PL Meet

Bigger Stronger Leaner Over 35 Lifter
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Long time listener first time logger…

I lift alone (the only one who will hang out with me is my dear ole grandad), so starting a log to a: keep me focused and b: get input from others (if anyone reads it)

44 years old; will be 45 when this meet rolls around. I’ve done two push/pull meets in the past; this time I’m going full power. My last meet (this past January), I benched 400 and pulled 500.

Been doing 5/3/1 for over a year, so I’ll stick with that. This is a deload week; here’s what I’ve done thus far:

Monday:
Bench
45 x 10 (2 sets)
135 x 10
165 x 5
205 x 5
245 x 5

Tuesday:
Kettlebell getups 30 x 5 (12 sets)
Squat
45 x 5 (2 sets)
135 x 5
160 x 5
195 x 5
235 x 5

Wednesday:
Kettlebell getups 30 x 5 (12 sets)

I ain’t proud; if you see something stupid, feel free to chime in (i may keep doing it, but chime in anyway)

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First of all welcome to the Old Folks Home.

Secondly what Fed/Class do you lift in?

You’re deep in SPF territory.

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[quote]JoeGood wrote:
First of all welcome to the Old Folks Home.

Secondly what Fed/Class do you lift in?

You’re deep in SPF territory.[/quote]

Oh, deep’s not descriptive enough. The Tennessee State meet has been 2 miles from my house for the past few years; that’s the main reason I finally entered a meet.

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[quote]linnrose wrote:

[quote]JoeGood wrote:
First of all welcome to the Old Folks Home.

Secondly what Fed/Class do you lift in?

You’re deep in SPF territory.[/quote]

Oh, deep’s not descriptive enough. The Tennessee State meet has been 2 miles from my house for the past few years; that’s the main reason I finally entered a meet.[/quote]

I also lift in SPF though not at your level. Vicki over in the PW forum is a big time SPF lifter.

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Welcome, I’m originally from Tennessee so glad to have you here with the perfectly aged group.

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welcome, look forwarding to watching your prep

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Welcome, look forward to following your workouts.

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What weight class do you compete in? and are you going to be doing the modified 5/3/1 with the singles thrown in?

Welcome aboard.

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Welcome to the Geritol group, Linnrose.

You’re 44 and your grandfather lifts with you??? Wow, you come from tough stock! No wonder you’ve got good numbers!

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[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
What weight class do you compete in? and are you going to be doing the modified 5/3/1 with the singles thrown in?

Welcome aboard.[/quote]

Last meet I competed in the 275 class; I’m trying to come down a little. And yup, doing the powerlifting 5/3/1 Wendler recently released

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[quote]cavalier wrote:
Welcome to the Geritol group, Linnrose.

You’re 44 and your grandfather lifts with you??? Wow, you come from tough stock! No wonder you’ve got good numbers![/quote]

Sorry, grandad doesn’t lift with me. After I said ‘I lift alone’, George Thorogood’s ‘I Drink Alone’ popped in my head, and you get what we have here.

I have an odd sense of humor.

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Thanks everybody for the welcomes; I hope I don’t tarnish the group’s good name.

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What good name?

And don’t worry about confusing me, I tend to get pretty literal sometimes. It comes from having taught in the past. And I give your post a B+.

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welcome to the asylum!

you are definitely rockin’ some good numbers there

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Welcome

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Still deloading:

z-presses:
45 x 10 (2)
65 x 5
85 x 5
105 x 5

Turkish get-ups:
30 x 5 (2)

And please tell me 2 hours of mowing in this ridiculous heat counts as sled pushing…

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Welcome.
Ok where in TN?
Which meet are you planning on doing?

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[quote]lil power wrote:
Welcome.
Ok where in TN?
Which meet are you planning on doing?[/quote]

I’m in Knoxville; aiming for the Tennessee State meet in January

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Last day of deload:

Deadlifts:
135 x 5 (2 sets)
205 x 5
255 x 5
305 x 5

Usually rest on Sunday, but my youngest is having knee surgery Monday, so I’m going get heavy a day early.

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First real log entry.

Bench day today. On my last couple of 531’s, I’ve done really bad on the last bench sets, so I dropped the weight down; make sure my form is right. Also threw in some heavy singles:

135 x 5 (2 sets)
155 x 5
185 x 5
225 x 4 (meant to stop @ 3)
260 x 3
300 x 3
335 x 3
355 x 1
375 x 1
395 x 0

375 went down and up so well, I thought surely I could grind out 395. Wouldn’t budge; couldn’t even un-rack.

Oh, almost forgot, I changed my grip. I could never go suicide grip because I don’t want to be that guy in a meet who almost decapitates himself, but when Kroc mentioned the thumb-straight-out-along-the-bar grip in his last article, I thought I’d give it a try; me gusta.

From the I-don’t-remember-hurting-that-muscle department, I was going to superset pull-ups with the bench, but I tweaked my right bicep somehow, and could only get 1 set of 4.

Rest of workout: incline dumbbells superset w/ trap bar shrugs:

Inclines:
80 x 10 (5 sets)*

Shrugs:
225 x 10 (5 sets)

*on the 4th set of inclines, my left pec started crying like a little girl, and I listened and only got 5 reps.