EDBANGER
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Decided to start a log here as I'm quite enjoying the forum. I've been training for a good while and have focused on Powerlifting for the last 5 years. In that time I think I've done 5 competitions and spent a spell of 18 months not competing due to injury. I'm not smashing any records or setting the powerlifting world alight but I do enjoy the focus it gives my training.
During my 18 months of time out competing I decided to shift my focus onto losing fat and getting into shape. As I say I like the focus a competition gives me so I decided to enter some online "shape ups". I started out at 94kg and in the first 12 week run dropped down to 84kg using a cyclical keto diet. I then had a month off dieting and entered another 12 week competition and finished at 75kg. I did initially start out on the same keto approach but found I wasn't making the same kind of progress I did the first time round so I switched to a standard 40/40/20 macro split and the weight starting dropping again. Here's the three stages from Sept 2013 to April 2014....
During that time I was still training in a powerlifting fashion and lifting as heavy as my sciatica would allow. Obviously my strength dropped with such a big weight loss but it soon returned only this time I was 10kg lighter and sitting at 84kg.
Throughout 2014 I worked on sorting out the sciatica through stretching and training tweaks and decided to work up for a competition in Febuary this year. I also decided that I wanted to enter my third shape up competition at the same time which started in January and finished 6 weeks after the Powerlifting comp. I chose to run a cycle of M-dien to help me prep for the Powerlifting and that cycle finished on the day of that competition. I then ran PCT for 6 weeks whilst cutting for the shape up. A lot of people told me that wasn't the best idea but I cracked on with it anyway and I was pleased with the results.
I got 3 PB's and 1 platform PB at the Powerlifting comp and won the shape up. I started at 84kg, went up to 87kg and then cut to 80kg in the space of 12 weeks and looked the best I've looked in my life whilst being the strongest. I've decided that I'm going to try and stay close to lean perminantly now as I don't want to be the fat powerlifter again. Here's the 12 week transformation.......
and here's my comp lifts.......
[video=youtube;Pz_GYyzQvko]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz_GYyzQvko[/video]
So there it is. I plan to do another Powerlifting competition in November and hopefully I'll smash those lifts. In the meantime I'm following Wendlers 5 3 1 with additions from his "Beyond 5 3 1" book and Ed Coens for my Deadlift. I'll put my first Squat session in later when I get back.
During my 18 months of time out competing I decided to shift my focus onto losing fat and getting into shape. As I say I like the focus a competition gives me so I decided to enter some online "shape ups". I started out at 94kg and in the first 12 week run dropped down to 84kg using a cyclical keto diet. I then had a month off dieting and entered another 12 week competition and finished at 75kg. I did initially start out on the same keto approach but found I wasn't making the same kind of progress I did the first time round so I switched to a standard 40/40/20 macro split and the weight starting dropping again. Here's the three stages from Sept 2013 to April 2014....
During that time I was still training in a powerlifting fashion and lifting as heavy as my sciatica would allow. Obviously my strength dropped with such a big weight loss but it soon returned only this time I was 10kg lighter and sitting at 84kg.
Throughout 2014 I worked on sorting out the sciatica through stretching and training tweaks and decided to work up for a competition in Febuary this year. I also decided that I wanted to enter my third shape up competition at the same time which started in January and finished 6 weeks after the Powerlifting comp. I chose to run a cycle of M-dien to help me prep for the Powerlifting and that cycle finished on the day of that competition. I then ran PCT for 6 weeks whilst cutting for the shape up. A lot of people told me that wasn't the best idea but I cracked on with it anyway and I was pleased with the results.
I got 3 PB's and 1 platform PB at the Powerlifting comp and won the shape up. I started at 84kg, went up to 87kg and then cut to 80kg in the space of 12 weeks and looked the best I've looked in my life whilst being the strongest. I've decided that I'm going to try and stay close to lean perminantly now as I don't want to be the fat powerlifter again. Here's the 12 week transformation.......
and here's my comp lifts.......
[video=youtube;Pz_GYyzQvko]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz_GYyzQvko[/video]
So there it is. I plan to do another Powerlifting competition in November and hopefully I'll smash those lifts. In the meantime I'm following Wendlers 5 3 1 with additions from his "Beyond 5 3 1" book and Ed Coens for my Deadlift. I'll put my first Squat session in later when I get back.