BLUF (lb):
Squat: 358.2x-358.2-374.8x
Bench: 192.9-203.9-214.9x
Deadlift: 474-496-512.6x
Total: 1058.2, Class III
Weighed in at 171.8 lb, 181.9 weight class
Squat: I had a kg/lbs sheet that had conversion tables on it, and next to the appropriate entries I listed what lift/attempt I intended for them. I had made some corrections to my squat numbers after my squat singles day last week and basically I gave them my 2nd attempt as my opener without realizing it. Didn't realize till I saw 358.2 on the screen when I stepped up to the platform. I think that psyched me out, and I lost my balance to the front on the opener. That sucked. I am chalking up my recent troubles with squat form to my high bar squatting a couple months back. Kind of how racquetball will fuck up your tennis game in short order. No more high bar squatting. I'll front squat when I want to get my quadz swoll.
Bench: Shoulder felt shitty and unstable, but I felt as strong as I could have I think. Thought I could get 214.9. My overall strategy to deal with my nerves was to not give a fuck about the meet. This was great because I honestly wasn't nervous or experiencing anxiety at all. In that respect I had a great day. The downside to this strategy was that I feel like maybe I could have ground out my third bench and deadlift attempts if I was more invested in getting them.
Deadlift: Ugh, I love deadlift. Such a redeeming period of the meet for me. 495 at the gym this past Monday was grindy, slow, jerky, ugly. I think it would have been redlighted at the meet. 496 went up smooth as butter though (videos forthcoming, next week sometime). Watching the video I'm sure I could have gotten 512, I just gave up on it.
Goals: I want to do another meet in ~12 months. I want to win my weight class. 1196 was the winning total, so I need to put 150 lb on my total. I think I can reasonably reach these numbers in that timeframe: 450 squat, 250 bench, 550 deadlift. I've got 10 lbs of wiggle room in my weight class, plus I could stand to lose upwards of 10 lbs of fat, so thats 20 lbs of muscle I could feasibly add.
Also, the MD state record for "deadlift only" (separate record from a deadlift pulled during a full meet) is 402 (compared to a whopping 661 for a deadlift in a full meet). Chump change. The reason being that no one really competes for those records. Nevertheless, if a meet comes up that I can go deadlift only and put my name in the record books, I'm gonna snipe it. There was one back in October that I'm kinda ticked I didn't know about.
i love the 12 month longterm goals, and i'm with you on dropping fat and winning our respective weight classes. i still think it's helpful to compete on a semi-regular basis...if you don't compete for another 12 months, you're going to be really nervous on that competition day. plus i learned a lot by competing this time around that i didn't back in april.
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Deletei learned how to cut 10 lbs of water weight in the week leading up to the comp...experimented with pedialyte/ and several servings of creatine pre and post squat. food preparation and warming up/staying loose were also valuable lessons this time around.
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