Figured I'd start a log. Not promising its going to be strictly powerlifting. I'm signed up for 2 strongman comps. One in the middle of June which I'm sure will be rescheduled. Then one the end of July. I will probably do a PL comp in the winter or fall.
Since its dubbed 2020 log ill catch you up to date. Competed in January in a USPA meet. Didnt do well compared to training. In training i hit
SQUAT 535 at 9RPE
BENCH 407 at 9RPE
DEAD 705 at 9RPE
At the meet i hit 496/391/705. Week of the meet i hurt my elbow pretty bad(bowling of all things). Zapped my bench completely, and didnt do any favors on deads.
496 was my opening squat, 3 whites. Went 529 next and knew i cut it high and got red lighted. still felt incredibly easy. went 557 on my third, grinded it out and still got reds. Had video of one side and it was clearly to depth. but thats part of the sport. Took the wind out of my sail and also tore up my elbow grinding it out. hit opener of 391 jumped to 411 and got called for soft/uneven lockout. deads felt decent but not great, pulled my opener of 684 felt like trash.(refs also said that if my socks weren't touching my knee caps on my next attempt i was going to get redlighted. this was my warning).I pull sumo and there are days and weeks were sumo fires on all cylinders amd its extremly fluod, today wasnt that day. so i rolled the dice threw 705 on the bar and pulled conventional (heaviest conventional pull was 660 done almost a year prior). Did it so i could say ive pulled over 700 both stances in comp.
took a few weeks off training and got back to training. Mostly with very little organization, just free lifts at the beginning. Decided to do a strongman comp for a change of pace. All events at both the comps i signed up for are timed events. so lift or carry as much as you can in 60secs. So before all of this Covid stuff i was lifting very high volume along with working on conditioning. Notable lofts during this time were 505 Good Morning, 225x5 SOHP(very good for me, i suck at over head work) 570x8 deads, 300lb/hand farmers carries for 50 feet.
During this time i also decided to hop of Test completely to see if i could naturally recover after being on B&C the last 3 years. Got tested at 422ng/dl. So im on the lower end of the scale, bit still in range. BW is dowm because of that and because of dieting.
so that brings us to current state. found a place to train at last week. a friend of a friends garage gym. will be training there 2xweek for a 1 hour session. He is charging a day rate and im not willing to pay for more than 2 days. especially cause im already paying for 2 gym memberships.
current stats
mid 30's
height- 6'3
bw- 226-230 currently
training years 6, with some injury breaks thrown in there
i will do this log with as much info as i can. i will most likely be going into small calorie surplus here next week. My initial thoughts were to do middleweight in strongman which is 175.5-231.4, but im finally going to commit to getting myself into the 260-270lb range this year. Other goals i have for this year are 600lb good morning, 405 Front squat, 315 OHP and 750 deadlift
Week 1 Day 1
Bike -
7.5 minutes
beltless Front Squat-
195 4x10
SOHP
155 3x10
beltless Deadlift
425 2x10
Yates rows
185
3x12
starting off really light to get into a good groove, build up conditioning, and be able to continually progress over the next month or so. Like i said, i also only have an hour to do all of this so i need to be high paced. Deads felt terrible after the front squat volume so called it at 2 sets. Will replace deads on this day with RDLs or trap bar for the time being.
Since its dubbed 2020 log ill catch you up to date. Competed in January in a USPA meet. Didnt do well compared to training. In training i hit
SQUAT 535 at 9RPE
BENCH 407 at 9RPE
DEAD 705 at 9RPE
At the meet i hit 496/391/705. Week of the meet i hurt my elbow pretty bad(bowling of all things). Zapped my bench completely, and didnt do any favors on deads.
496 was my opening squat, 3 whites. Went 529 next and knew i cut it high and got red lighted. still felt incredibly easy. went 557 on my third, grinded it out and still got reds. Had video of one side and it was clearly to depth. but thats part of the sport. Took the wind out of my sail and also tore up my elbow grinding it out. hit opener of 391 jumped to 411 and got called for soft/uneven lockout. deads felt decent but not great, pulled my opener of 684 felt like trash.(refs also said that if my socks weren't touching my knee caps on my next attempt i was going to get redlighted. this was my warning).I pull sumo and there are days and weeks were sumo fires on all cylinders amd its extremly fluod, today wasnt that day. so i rolled the dice threw 705 on the bar and pulled conventional (heaviest conventional pull was 660 done almost a year prior). Did it so i could say ive pulled over 700 both stances in comp.
took a few weeks off training and got back to training. Mostly with very little organization, just free lifts at the beginning. Decided to do a strongman comp for a change of pace. All events at both the comps i signed up for are timed events. so lift or carry as much as you can in 60secs. So before all of this Covid stuff i was lifting very high volume along with working on conditioning. Notable lofts during this time were 505 Good Morning, 225x5 SOHP(very good for me, i suck at over head work) 570x8 deads, 300lb/hand farmers carries for 50 feet.
During this time i also decided to hop of Test completely to see if i could naturally recover after being on B&C the last 3 years. Got tested at 422ng/dl. So im on the lower end of the scale, bit still in range. BW is dowm because of that and because of dieting.
so that brings us to current state. found a place to train at last week. a friend of a friends garage gym. will be training there 2xweek for a 1 hour session. He is charging a day rate and im not willing to pay for more than 2 days. especially cause im already paying for 2 gym memberships.
current stats
mid 30's
height- 6'3
bw- 226-230 currently
training years 6, with some injury breaks thrown in there
i will do this log with as much info as i can. i will most likely be going into small calorie surplus here next week. My initial thoughts were to do middleweight in strongman which is 175.5-231.4, but im finally going to commit to getting myself into the 260-270lb range this year. Other goals i have for this year are 600lb good morning, 405 Front squat, 315 OHP and 750 deadlift
Week 1 Day 1
Bike -
7.5 minutes
beltless Front Squat-
195 4x10
SOHP
155 3x10
beltless Deadlift
425 2x10
Yates rows
185
3x12
starting off really light to get into a good groove, build up conditioning, and be able to continually progress over the next month or so. Like i said, i also only have an hour to do all of this so i need to be high paced. Deads felt terrible after the front squat volume so called it at 2 sets. Will replace deads on this day with RDLs or trap bar for the time being.
