New Pr's All Over The Place.

[Cubanito17]

Hey guys as you know I was out of lifting for a good 3 weeks with being sick and I pulled a muscle in my low back. Well Monday was my first day back really and today we had a High School meet. So monday all I did was warm up barX5, 95X5, 135X5, then 185X1(pause) 225X1(pause) and quit. then went to clean&jerks and got of course my usual 175lbs(which I've never been able to pass for some reason).Then after these two things I went ahead and did a static hold since I was gonna throw it in after workouts and I first held 315lbs for 10 seconds, then held 335lbs for 10 seconds and racked.


Well today at our meet I did AWESOME I warmed up bench as follows:
barX5
95X5
135X3
185X1
Open: 225(blew it up like it wasn't shit)
2nd:245(blew it up better than 225, b/c I was more angry)
3rd: I was gonna go 255 to not be disappointed but my coach told me with as easy as I got 245 if I go lower than 260 he was gonna kick my ass so I went 260(blew it up pretty decent)((NEW PR)) I was told by 3 diff judges that were coaching I would've gotten 270 or 275 with a bit of a struggle but GOOD.

Clean&jerks(hate these, not good at them)
warmed up with 135X2
Open:175(good lift)
2nd:185(good lift)((NEW PR))
3rd:195(good lift, better than 185 on my drop and throwing elbows)(NEW PR)
then for the hell of it I went 4th attempt and got 205( I broke the 200 barrier I had on cleans).

All these lifts were done at a 181 bodyweight, I competed in the 183 weight class b/c I took off all clothes and shoes and Placed 2nd place out of 6 lifters. If I would've competed in the 199lb weight class I would've taken 1st place.

183ranking 6lifters
1st came in 495total
2nd came in 455total(me)
3rd came in 450

199ranking 5lifters
1st came in 445
2nd came in 440
3rd came in 430

So I might just stick with cleans, ARIOCH your help with pulling yourself under the bar really helped. PLJAY your help with hating the weight helped out ALOT ON BENCH. And grimm your advise of repeating to myself what's the last thing I have to do HELPED A TON I was repeating to myself when cleaning "pull myself under the bar, pull myself under the bar" and that's the only thing I was focused on.

 

[Deciever]

congratulations, nice lifts!! glad to hear your feeling better. Nice job on the PRs

 

[ZZuluZ]

How often do you have meets?

-Zulu

 

[k1401]

GREAT JOB!

 

[brianmincher]

Way to go little brother.

B.

 

[Arioch]

Good job. Rest can work wonders.

 

[powerlifterjay]

I think your capable of PR's more often. Its gonna happen. Hell if you deadlift 700 one day imagine all the pr's your gonna have. Good job, and remember "hate that weight"!

 

[Cubanito17]

Thanks alot guys, I have meets every week on wednesdays or so, BUT THIS was the last one. Now I'm pissed b/c I should've gone more BUT IN ANOTHER WAY. I'm really glad I forgot to put that last week when I came back I got 245 barely with a bounce and yesterday I paused more than I did back at ST PETE meet. So i'm happy about that. JAY that thing insted of DE bench I love it bro even my lil brother is gettin alot stronger. I wouldn't be surprised if I see 3 plates soon. .

Arioch dude thank you so much for cleans. I'm not gonna completely quit them I'm stil gonna do them every once in a while for ME as a triple or so, now that I can do more than 175(i was stuck at forever) I want to keep going see if I can get 225.(2 plates) love the sound of it.

 

[endpoint]

how are you training these days? still westside?

 

[Cubanito17]

Well up to the ST PETE meet. I was doing 100% westside the full DE BENCH ME BENCH DE SQ/DL ME SQ/DL, but these days I'm about 85% westside trying out a new routine instead of speed bench I do a set of 10 with a weight I can get for ten then I do a set of a weight i can do for 5 then i do a set of a weight i can get for a double then I go back to the weight i did for 5 and try to rep it out as many as I can. Then I go and do all extra workouts as westside normally would and after whats DE bench day I do 2 sets of static holds(they seem to work GREAT for me).