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Alright sounds good. I’m on a modified version of 5/3/1 right now and was just thinking that I should start to ramp the weight up a bit. Even on my week 3 I’m still hitting 4-6 reps.[/quote]
to be honest with you, you aren’t going to get significantly stronger from now until then. but you can put more pounds into your lift on the platform if you perfect your competition lifts. there’s nothing more frustrating than to hit a lift in competition but then to have it redlighted because you broke a rule. get those lifts down to the point that you don’t even need to think about them and you will have more confidence that will convey to bigger lifts on the platform. that’s why competitors always say gym lifts are worth zero. it’s all about what you can do in front of the judges.
i’m doing 5/3/1 as well and am preparing for a competition october 23rd. i’m doing just the prescribed reps on all the working sets and then throwing in a couple sets of singles after that really concentrating on the competition lift aspect. the working sets are more like a prolonged warmup leading up to the singles. the singles are definitely not max attempts though. these are heavy singles leaving a couple reps in the tank.
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Oct 23rd you say? I’m guessing it’s the SPF meet at Brute Strength you’re attending?[/quote]
that is correct. me and my other two training partners will be doing full meets.
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Very cool. Ill be there with I believe 5 other guys.
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where in va. are you??
are you all doing full meets?? equipped or raw??
we all compete raw. i’ll be competing in the 259 or 275 open class depending on what i weigh that day. so will one of my other guys. my other training partner will probably be in the 242 class.
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We’re all out of Fredericksburg with one guy out or Arlington.
I’ll try to get this right: we’ll have two doing raw 220’s, a raw 135, a raw 168, an equipped 220 and an equipped 242. All full meets in the open class except the equipped 220. I think he’s in the masters.
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will you be competing as a team as well or all just individual?? have you done a SPF meet before??
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All individual. The one competing masters has done SPF. The rest of us have mainly competed in IPA and USAPL. We’ll also have a couple of
gym buds not competing, but coming down to help out who’ve done SPF meets.
Where at in va are you?[/quote]
we all live up in Northern Va. in the Manassas area.
if you’ve been doing USAPL the SPF will be a treat:) always a good time and lifters can lift, yell, slap…all the things that are powerlifting.