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Today I entered my first proper powerlifting meet. It was the british championships, meaning everyone there had qualified in previous meets and been invited to it. When I tryed to do my qualifier the snow was so bad me and a few other guys had to all meet up in a gym with one of the referees and we qualified there, so it wasnt really a meet for me as we didnt even do it at the same time, I was the only one there when I went.
That just made the nerves worse, I got there and weighed in at 193.6lbs. I had dropped some weight last week I thought but it turned out the scales were a little light, and it was also 9.00am so I was gonna be a little lighter anyway since the week before I had weighed in at 197. Anyway after I weighed in my flight wasnt until about 2.00pm or maybe a bit later than that Im not sure, the waiting was horrible, I had brought my ipod to listen to but my headphones broke in the car, this also meant I couldnt listen to any music inbetween lifts to help psyche me up. So I was just pretty much sitting around. I couldnt eat because I was so nervous I was trembling and twitching the whole time and literally pissing abuot every 30mins. I managed to eat an apple, a banana, and drink alot. I drank a litre of full cream milk with 10g of creatine mixed in and some needtobuildmuscle.com whey protein mixed in too that I had made the night before.... oh yah and I drank 120g of carbs via sports drinks LOL. There was a break between flights 4 and 5, I was in flight 5, the break was meant to be 15mins but over ran and ended up being like 25mins, the suspense was killing me and made me feel ill by the time I got up there I was shitting myself especially as I was up first in the group.
Anyway my flight came up and I was first in the flight, it was the 198 weight class and they were all young men, 20-35 years old and then one 83 year old man! He was the only person I beat in my weight class lol. Anyway nobody my age had ever managed to qualify for this weight class before so they hadnt managed to bench 82.5kg or more in competition, that meant if I managed to lift more than that then it would be a british record! My weights went like this:
1st (opener): 70kg (154lbs) - nailed it easy
2nd: 82.5kg (181.5lbs) - miss
3rd: 90kg (198lbs) - nailed it again not too hard either
4th: 95kg (209lbs) - pass, kinda hard!
so the record is now at 95kg or 209lbs and belongs to me! The thing is, the 2nd attempt I forgot to wait for the start signal, but still smashed the weight it was easy, the only real struggle was the fourth attempt which was 209lbs but it wasnt like a max attempt or 1rm or anything. My original plan was to go 70kg, 80kg, 90kg, 92.5kg but had a talk with Haydn the SHW who has been helping me and we decided to change it a bit as I was smashing through my warmups easily and didnt put my wrist wraps on until the 3rd attempt.
I didnt bother to wear a belt.
The only other T1 catagory guy - T1 means teenage 1, so the 14-15 year old weight class (this is what I competed in) was a lad who entered the 145kg weight class!! 145kg is 319lbs! The dude was huge! About 6'5 and fat as fuck! Anyway he only benched 44lbs more than me! And he was way heavier than me and due to his size his ROM was way shorter than mine cause his big chest was so high up, I would have thought he would have been stronger than that and especially as he struggled with the weight alot more than I struggled with mine I was suprised.
So Iv got a trophy now and some pics, didnt manage to get any video though.
First few pics are of the benching although they aint great quality, the next ones are of my getting my trophy, then a picture with the president of the federation, and the final one is a picture of my with Haydn and another SHW who I talked to at the meet and helped me a bit. As you can see Im dwarfed next to them but iv actually gained quite alot of bodyweight leading up to this meet and I alot of people - competitors and organisers said how big I was for 15, and I had to bring proof of my age because I was told the judges and stuff would think I was older. Haydn is also going to help me with my bench technique as he thinks it could be improved to help push my numbers up. I guess all these disgusting scrambled eggs and chicken meals are starting to pay off
lol
oh yeah and I have been invited to go to Russia for the european championships, but I dont think I will be attending.
That just made the nerves worse, I got there and weighed in at 193.6lbs. I had dropped some weight last week I thought but it turned out the scales were a little light, and it was also 9.00am so I was gonna be a little lighter anyway since the week before I had weighed in at 197. Anyway after I weighed in my flight wasnt until about 2.00pm or maybe a bit later than that Im not sure, the waiting was horrible, I had brought my ipod to listen to but my headphones broke in the car, this also meant I couldnt listen to any music inbetween lifts to help psyche me up. So I was just pretty much sitting around. I couldnt eat because I was so nervous I was trembling and twitching the whole time and literally pissing abuot every 30mins. I managed to eat an apple, a banana, and drink alot. I drank a litre of full cream milk with 10g of creatine mixed in and some needtobuildmuscle.com whey protein mixed in too that I had made the night before.... oh yah and I drank 120g of carbs via sports drinks LOL. There was a break between flights 4 and 5, I was in flight 5, the break was meant to be 15mins but over ran and ended up being like 25mins, the suspense was killing me and made me feel ill by the time I got up there I was shitting myself especially as I was up first in the group.
Anyway my flight came up and I was first in the flight, it was the 198 weight class and they were all young men, 20-35 years old and then one 83 year old man! He was the only person I beat in my weight class lol. Anyway nobody my age had ever managed to qualify for this weight class before so they hadnt managed to bench 82.5kg or more in competition, that meant if I managed to lift more than that then it would be a british record! My weights went like this:
1st (opener): 70kg (154lbs) - nailed it easy
2nd: 82.5kg (181.5lbs) - miss
3rd: 90kg (198lbs) - nailed it again not too hard either
4th: 95kg (209lbs) - pass, kinda hard!
so the record is now at 95kg or 209lbs and belongs to me! The thing is, the 2nd attempt I forgot to wait for the start signal, but still smashed the weight it was easy, the only real struggle was the fourth attempt which was 209lbs but it wasnt like a max attempt or 1rm or anything. My original plan was to go 70kg, 80kg, 90kg, 92.5kg but had a talk with Haydn the SHW who has been helping me and we decided to change it a bit as I was smashing through my warmups easily and didnt put my wrist wraps on until the 3rd attempt.
I didnt bother to wear a belt.
The only other T1 catagory guy - T1 means teenage 1, so the 14-15 year old weight class (this is what I competed in) was a lad who entered the 145kg weight class!! 145kg is 319lbs! The dude was huge! About 6'5 and fat as fuck! Anyway he only benched 44lbs more than me! And he was way heavier than me and due to his size his ROM was way shorter than mine cause his big chest was so high up, I would have thought he would have been stronger than that and especially as he struggled with the weight alot more than I struggled with mine I was suprised.
So Iv got a trophy now and some pics, didnt manage to get any video though.
First few pics are of the benching although they aint great quality, the next ones are of my getting my trophy, then a picture with the president of the federation, and the final one is a picture of my with Haydn and another SHW who I talked to at the meet and helped me a bit. As you can see Im dwarfed next to them but iv actually gained quite alot of bodyweight leading up to this meet and I alot of people - competitors and organisers said how big I was for 15, and I had to bring proof of my age because I was told the judges and stuff would think I was older. Haydn is also going to help me with my bench technique as he thinks it could be improved to help push my numbers up. I guess all these disgusting scrambled eggs and chicken meals are starting to pay off
loloh yeah and I have been invited to go to Russia for the european championships, but I dont think I will be attending.
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