Did my first meet this past Saturday and learned a lot about what I need to do to get better.
My power off my chest (reversal strength) from a pause is gonna get worked on the most. So from a bench perspective, I will be doing most of my pressing from the chest to about the 2-board position to keep my chest under tension longer. Will follow it up w/ tricep work. I also plan to put in a speed day as well to see if I can benefit from it. I also plan to keep the workouts short and intense (under 40 minutes)
So as of now, my first bench workout post-meet was today:
10-26-11
Worked up to 5x5x225
Rolling tricep extensions 3x15
Also added in some very light reverse curls and hammer curls to rehab my right elbow (tennis elbow).
[quote]cavalier wrote:
Hey, congrats on your first meet! How did it go?[/quote]
I learned a lot about judging and where I need to go now in my training. I plan to begin working w/ Matt Kroc sometime soon on a six month training/diet. I plan on competing 198 next April after competing 242 in this last meet.
11-10-11 Bench
Worked up to 275 for 3 doubles. Missed 300 at lockout. Dropped back and hit 295 for a single. Did many many sets of tricep and shoulder work.
11-14-11 Dead lift
4in. elevated 135x2x5 225x2x3 315x3 405x1 365x3 315x5
Good mornings 10?s at 95 135 155 175
Abs roller 4x10
Leg raise 4x10
Band side bends 1x20
11-15-11 Bench
warmed up w/ mini bands 95x10 135x5 185x3 225x3
then 2- board 275x3 295x1 315x1 330x0
Rolling tricep extensions 4x12
T-bar rows 4x12
Reverse curls 2x20
Right arm was hurting from throwing a football at work today while bored. Haven’t done that in a while and over did it. Also my first time using bands to bench. It’s quite interesting.
I learned a lot about judging and where I need to go now in my training. I plan to begin working w/ Matt Kroc sometime soon on a six month training/diet. I plan on competing 198 next April after competing 242 in this last meet. [/quote]
Why the huge weight cut?
I’m curious about your statement “I learned a lot about judging.” Care to elaborate?
I learned a lot about judging and where I need to go now in my training. I plan to begin working w/ Matt Kroc sometime soon on a six month training/diet. I plan on competing 198 next April after competing 242 in this last meet. [/quote]
Why the huge weight cut?
I’m curious about your statement “I learned a lot about judging.” Care to elaborate?
And congratulations on your competition.[/quote]
Well, I’d like to get down to 198 but I can’t serve two masters… So more than likely I’ll keep eating and lifting like normal. I decided to hold off on working w/ Kroc is the other reason I’m not gonna drop.
Well…like bodybuilding…I find powerlifting judging can be subjective as well. Politics play an important role. My lifting partner (220lb class and his first ever meet) was by far the best lifter benching 385 and deadlifting 601 and strict curl of 137.5 and they gave the best lifter award to a guy who weighs 440 and benched 615 and a strict curl at 128 or so. Not only that, my lifting partner was in the 50-54 yr old class and the other guy in the 30-34 yr olds. So that kinda soured me a bit, but I’ll still compete for myself and not necessarily to win.
I learned a lot about judging and where I need to go now in my training. I plan to begin working w/ Matt Kroc sometime soon on a six month training/diet. I plan on competing 198 next April after competing 242 in this last meet. [/quote]
Why the huge weight cut?
I’m curious about your statement “I learned a lot about judging.” Care to elaborate?
And congratulations on your competition.[/quote]
Well, I’d like to get down to 198 but I can’t serve two masters… So more than likely I’ll keep eating and lifting like normal. I decided to hold off on working w/ Kroc is the other reason I’m not gonna drop.
Well…like bodybuilding…I find powerlifting judging can be subjective as well. Politics play an important role. My lifting partner (220lb class and his first ever meet) was by far the best lifter benching 385 and deadlifting 601 and strict curl of 137.5 and they gave the best lifter award to a guy who weighs 440 and benched 615 and a strict curl at 128 or so. Not only that, my lifting partner was in the 50-54 yr old class and the other guy in the 30-34 yr olds. So that kinda soured me a bit, but I’ll still compete for myself and not necessarily to win. [/quote]
Wow. That is horribly subjective. Perhaps compete with a fed that picks its winners based on wilks rather than favoritism. Sounds like your lifting partner did really, really well. A 601 DL at 220? Yowsie. That’s great.
Strict curl contests always crack me up because they’re usually anything BUT strict. Lots of sway and back. Strict curl for me would be back against the wall or in a scott curl bench.
I learned a lot about judging and where I need to go now in my training. I plan to begin working w/ Matt Kroc sometime soon on a six month training/diet. I plan on competing 198 next April after competing 242 in this last meet. [/quote]
Why the huge weight cut?
I’m curious about your statement “I learned a lot about judging.” Care to elaborate?
And congratulations on your competition.[/quote]
Well, I’d like to get down to 198 but I can’t serve two masters… So more than likely I’ll keep eating and lifting like normal. I decided to hold off on working w/ Kroc is the other reason I’m not gonna drop.
Well…like bodybuilding…I find powerlifting judging can be subjective as well. Politics play an important role. My lifting partner (220lb class and his first ever meet) was by far the best lifter benching 385 and deadlifting 601 and strict curl of 137.5 and they gave the best lifter award to a guy who weighs 440 and benched 615 and a strict curl at 128 or so. Not only that, my lifting partner was in the 50-54 yr old class and the other guy in the 30-34 yr olds. So that kinda soured me a bit, but I’ll still compete for myself and not necessarily to win. [/quote]
Wow. That is horribly subjective. Perhaps compete with a fed that picks its winners based on wilks rather than favoritism. Sounds like your lifting partner did really, really well. A 601 DL at 220? Yowsie. That’s great.
Strict curl contests always crack me up because they’re usually anything BUT strict. Lots of sway and back. Strict curl for me would be back against the wall or in a scott curl bench.[/quote]
In the strict curl, your butt and back cannot leave the wall and you can lean up to a ft away from the wall to the back of your heels.
So more than likely I’ll keep eating and lifting like normal. I decided to hold off on working w/ Kroc is the other reason I’m not gonna drop.