If you believe it, it counts!
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Here is the little triceps extension thingy. Lay down on the floor and have your hands on the 3" pipe. Pretty good pump.
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Hell of a seasion, maybe next year I might fall to louie
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Traphouse Barbell W4D2
ME LOWER
2" Block Pulls - against green bands
45 x 5
245 x 3
335 x 2
425 x 1
515 x 1
605 x 1
680 x 0 ā broke the floor with it, but gave up quick. I knew it wasnāt coming quick enough to beat the bands. May have yelled out some profanity after the miss, and there may have been two women in the gym (oops).
655 x 1 ā RPE 9.5. Pretty clean rep actually. Held lockout for a few seconds at the top. This is WELL over 700lbs at the top, Iād guess 750lbs or better (I really need to bring a scale in to test the bands).
Coach wanted me to beat my competition deadlift max today (plus bands), which is why we jumped to 680lbs. He is all about the big jumps and āselling outā for those max effort lifts. Iām still very happy with the 655lb pull with added band weight.
Cambered Bar Good Mornings
85 x 5
175 x 5
265 x 4
265 x 4
265 x 4
175 x 4
Meh, kinda felt ok. I canāt seem to load up the hamstrings very well, so this becomes nearly all lower back. Lower back insertion points not overly excited about this movement. I hope I can find a way for this movement to work for me.
GIANT SET
GHR
10
10
10
Reverse Hyper - 160lbs loaded, using strap attachment
15
15
15
Situps - legs spread eagle, holding 45lb plate above chest
10
10
10
SUPERSET
Calf Raises - holding 45lb plate
50 toes out
50 toes straight
50 toes in
Hamstring Curls
Black band x 50
Red band x 50
Red band x 50
Another one down!
āEveryone wants to eat, but few are willing to hunt.ā
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I think this is how it works until the back is bulletproof.
We are doing heavy Goodmornings for 5s tonight.
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Another reason to do a powerlifting competition for those who are thinking about it:
You get an online profile that tracks your competition lifts! (fun for stat loving people like myself)
And for all you KG people:
This is from openpowerlifting dot org.
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You should switch to kg. A 300kg deadlift sounds way cooler than 650.
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Apart from TV or YouTube or whateverā¦ Iāve only ever seen a 300kg deadlift once in a gym by a big ginger haired guy. They didnāt like him using the gym because he bent all the bars. Iām not sure about the quality in different bars or whatever, but they were all bent. I havenāt been around much strongman gyms, this is just the standard bodybuilding/fitness gyms. Thatās some lift man
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Well 300kg is a recognisable milestone and quantifiably heavy. On the other hand 650lbs is a weird number in a unit of measurement that only like 5% of the world uses.
Actually I would have assumed you used kg in Canada before reading your log.
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Thanks man, the deadlift is definitely my best lift of the big three.
Haha, 50% of the people at my powerlifting competition were gingers. Strong fckers.
Haha donāt get me started on the bass ackwards way us North Americans measure shit.
Yeah, it is just whatever unit of measurement you grow up with, lol. If I tell my pals that I lifted 300kg, Iād get a semi-blank stare while they try to remember the conversion, or tell them 650lbs and they can instantly relate to how heavy that is. I just started powerlifting a year ago so Iām starting to relate to a few milestone lifts in kg, but Iām still basically just converting them to lbs to recognize how heavy it actually is.
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Yeah itās the opposite for me. I donāt realise how strong some of the guys here are until I switch the weights to kg in my head.
Iām British so I canāt say anything about backwards measurements. We use both completely arbitrarily and interchangeably.
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Iām assuming all the plates in your gym(s) are kg plates?
I have pretty good gym math (in lbs) so when I hear a weight in lbs I know how many 45ās are on the bar with some change and how difficult each of those weights are for me. If I lifted with kg plates for awhile Iād likely pick up the conversion pretty quickly.
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Yeah Iāve never seen lbs here but Iām sure some gyms have them. I measure my bodyweight in lbs generally to add some extra chaos.
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They have to be to survive.
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All the plates in the gym I go have both lbs and kgs on them
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I donāt know what you mean. 300kg is a big lift, so is 660lbs and so is 47stone and 2lbs 
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lol, too bad IPF do not have a state tracker like that 
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