Sean's Powerlifting Journey

herderdude said:
Feeling like you're getting anything out of them? Hard to get into position or anything?
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They def helped. Was very easy driving my hips into the bar. Tad difficult on the first sets. You can see in the vid I focused on tightening myself up and pushing my butt back to lower myself. Second I gotta grip I pulled

Side note: guy next to me was benching more than I block pulled :(
 
napalm said:
<----202 this morning :(
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Four pounds? That's nothin! You float a half a pound every two hours you're awake, and that's not doing anything. Get a little sweat going, you could have that knocked out in a couple hours.
 
napalm said:
I think 6 pm, can't find the handout ATM.
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Oh yeah. Just sip minimum water and hold off on food and you won't even have to sweat. Ramp up water now, don't stop water until bedtime Thursday, lower the carbs the rest of the week, you'll be perfect.
 
herderdude said:
Oh yeah. Just sip minimum water and hold off on food and you won't even have to sweat. Ramp up water now, don't stop water until bedtime Thursday, lower the carbs the rest of the week, you'll be perfect.
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Yeah, I found a template that is almost exactly what you posted. After weds no carbs except from veggies or protein drink.

Lower sodium starting today...
 
I'm pretty sure the sodium/carb/water/fast protocol is going to way overshoot 198 and get you closer to 192-194, but trust me, better to start now and be allowed to have a sandwich on your way to weigh ins than to be sweating it (literally. I just made a funny) on your way to weigh in.
 
Kept it easy today. Plenty of foam rolling and stretching, along with the Agile 8.

Throwning the bench shirt on tomorrow to a 3-board.
 
Sean1332 said:
Just think about all the delicious food to eat after weighins
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Can't even begin to explain how many nights I have spent in hotel rooms drooling watching Food Network.

EDIT: Woo shirt!
 
herderdude said:
I'm pretty sure the sodium/carb/water/fast protocol is going to way overshoot 198 and get you closer to 192-194, but trust me, better to start now and be allowed to have a sandwich on your way to weigh ins than to be sweating it (literally. I just made a funny) on your way to weigh in.
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This, do it right and you'll be down 10lbs.
 
herderdude said:
I'm pretty sure the sodium/carb/water/fast protocol is going to way overshoot 198 and get you closer to 192-194, but trust me, better to start now and be allowed to have a sandwich on your way to weigh ins than to be sweating it (literally. I just made a funny) on your way to weigh in.
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We'll see, I'll weigh myself before bed to get an idea. Gonna keep the cals a little lower than usual for the next couple days.

If I drop 2 overnight I'll be ok.
 
napalm said:
We'll see, I'll weigh myself before bed to get an idea. Gonna keep the cals a little lower than usual for the next couple days.

If I drop 2 overnight I'll be ok.
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For me, that's my normal nighttime float, 2. It's different for everyone though.
 
Rodja said:
Guy I train with that's doing the same meet is about 210 right now. If he gets any lighter, his gear won't fit right.
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Oh yeah i forgot about that. When is he getting in town and is he stating the night Saturday?

I'd be crapping myself - literally if I had to drop 12 lbs by Saturday...
 
napalm said:
Oh yeah i forgot about that. When is he getting in town and is he stating the night Saturday?

I'd be crapping myself - literally if I had to drop 12 lbs by Saturday...
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Pfft, 12lbs is nothing. It's when you get to ~10% of total BW that it becomes painful. He leaves on Thursday, but not sure when he's coming back.
 
Rodja said:
Pfft, 12lbs is nothing. It's when you get to ~10% of total BW that it becomes painful. He leaves on Thursday, but not sure when he's coming back.
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I can't even comprehend that, and have no idea how performance wouldn't suffer...

What's his name? I'll look for him...
 
napalm said:
I can't even comprehend that, and have no idea how performance wouldn't suffer...

What's his name? I'll look for him...
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Alex Ortiz. Master's 198lbs.

There's plenty of time to replenish after early weigh-ins and to rest up. The process isn't the most pleasant, but he's not doing anything too crazy in terms of pounds.
 
Cube Method -First Shirted Bench Session

3-Board Bench Press
275x5
295x3
315x2
335x1
355x1
365x1

DB Bench
100x8x3

Pendlay Rows
185x12x4

DB Cleans/Dips with Titan Ram
20x15x4/+90x8x3

Tate Press
30x15x3

Cable Crunches
135x20x4

Bench shirts suck. I'm down with thigh chafe but armpit chafe blows. 315-355 was surprisingly easy. I have to get used to controlling the weight after the unrack though as I'm not used to the load. Descent was tight and ascent was fast. 365 was slow. I had it unracked and pulled the weight out. As I got it where I wanted it the bar drafted back and I had to pull it over my chest again before I descended the bar. Lockout was slow as molasses. Any good shirt recommendations? When I return my Inzer belt I'm just going to spend that money on a quality shirt to compete with.

Dips with the Titan Ram were...different. Started out easy as hell and lockout sucked big time. Will keep these in the toolbox
 
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Sorry about the angle. This is the last set.

1) descended too fast I think. I felt a lot more control with my lats with 355
2) bounced off the board a tad I think
3) spotter swears he didnt help, who knows

I'll count 355. Maybe not this.

Anything else? Bad angle I know..
 
Sean1332 said:
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Sorry about the angle. This is the last set.

1) descended too fast I think. I felt a lot more control with my lats with 355
2) bounced off the board a tad I think
3) spotter swears he didnt help, who knows

I'll count 355. Maybe not this.

Anything else? Bad angle I know..
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I'm not caught up yet, but tell that guy to square that board on your chest.
on a good note, you kept the elbows good and tucked.
from the angle I can't tell if you're pressing your heels down hard to begin the ascent.

But yeah struggling once in a while is good
 
You're getting barely anything out of that shirt. You've jumped the gear chasm; might as well go multi-ply and get some big poundages out of the shirt.
 
aceroni said:
I'm not caught up yet, but tell that guy to square that board on your chest.
on a good note, you kept the elbows good and tucked.
from the angle I can't tell if you're pressing your heels down hard to begin the ascent.
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You havent missed too much geared work..first shirted bench today. Yeah that bugged me with the board. They switched off for the last set and they were straight until that lift. I was set up and couldn't think lol

I felt my heels drive down but there's still some wobble in my legs..Will get a better video next time for you all
 
Rodja said:
You're getting barely anything out of that shirt. You've jumped the gear chasm; might as well go multi-ply and get some big poundages out of the shirt.
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Yeahhhh I'm thinking that now with the multi. I think I went single because I couldn't find any meets other than USAPL, which is single only. All I felt the shirt do was help my shoulders I think.
 
Shyt I just used a maddog for the first time ever. Wow... 10@315, then my wrist broke back at 365 and it crashed on the safety bar then bounced on my chest... Shyt was scary and it knocked the win out of me for a sec but I'm fine now....
 
I agree with Rodja. Get yourself a multi-ply shirt. The discomfort on those first-gen shirts is out of this world, and the carryover is negligible.

If I had to say anything about the press, I'd say settle on the board, then press. Any bounce won't help as much with carryover and I know I always lose my groove if I don't settle it down.
 
Only thing of notice was the lack of stability in your torso and legs.
 
What shirt do you have now Sean?
 
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