Meet Wrap Up

This was a great meet for me to compete in. I weighed in at 118kg which is just a bit over 260lbs. Obviously my plan to make weight worked really well. Before I get into my performance I want to just talk about some things I observed.

I got to watch Shawn Frankl lift. He's a fricken beast, he totalled 2535 at 220. I got to talk to him and he has a real good attitude about it all. I got to see richie Briggs bench 859 at 275. Another amazing lifter. BIG Iron also had another girl there, Krystal Cary. She did both the bench only and full power meet going 12/12 and getting an american record or two in her weight class. I also got to see Al Caslow lift. He's a 181 and although he bombed on the squat, completed the rest of the meet with some really good deads and benches. There we a couple other people that had really good meets.

My performance:

The atmosphere was really good. Everyone from the team was there except Rob who's currently working in CA. Warm ups for the squat went pretty well. Form was feeling good all day. Pace on my lifts were also good.

Opener: 475- Easy
2nd: 501.5- Easy
3rd: 518- Pretty Easy

Squats= 3/3

There was a 30 minute break between squat and bench. I continued my regimen of drinking half strength gatorade and eating crackers, pb+J. Energy was good all day.

Warm ups for bench were going well. My shirt fit the best today than it ever has.

Opener: 365- easy (no belt)
2nd: 385 (belt on)- it was so easy that it surpised me and I beat the rack call so no lift
3rd: 385 (belt on)- stupid easy, good lift

Bench= 2/3

At this point the day was getting long and since I was in the 3rd flight of lifters it made it even longer. I wasn't physically tired, just a bit mentally tired from all the heavy lifting all day. Warm ups for the deadlift went ok, but the floor in the warm up area was a bit too slippery, but no adverse effects.

Opener: 480- easy
2nd: 501.5- felt awesome
3rd: 513.5- up to my knees but couldn't grind it out, no lift

Deadlift= 2/3

Total for the day: 7/9

Total: 1405.4
I'd like to thank Dano, Will, Sully and the Maroscher powerlifting team. Each of you has had a part in this first success. I'm looking forward to where this is going to go in the future. I beat my goal total (1400) by just a couple lbs. Back to training.