1st Powerlifting meet results

[Jmadden44]

Records for JR 220 were pretty weak in this class. These prob won't stand for long, but as you saw I took advantage of having 4th attempts. Outside of not being able to thoroughly warm up for bench, I feel like this was a solid first meet (lifting wise, not strength wise). Joining a team and getting a coach in July. I'm hooked!

[John Prophet]

good lifting

that judge was pretty brutal with the long pauses on bench

[Jmadden44]

good lifting

that judge was pretty brutal with the long pauses on bench

Yeah, I kept sinking on my 1st and 4th attempt

[scotpak1979]

Great stuff. You picked your lifts well. (I had my first meet last week).

Amazing how your squat is level with your deadlift. Has it always been like this?.

[Jmadden44]

Great stuff. You picked your lifts well. (I had my first meet last week).

Amazing how your squat is level with your deadlift. Has it always been like this?.

Get a ton out of wraps man. About 450 squat true raw. And my dead I feel like I had another 15 or so. Just hadn't trained it in a few months so I didn't know where I was at.

How'd you do? I think my focus is always going to be 9/9. I'm glad I started light. Confidence under the bar was tremendous with each successful lift.

[SF_Tryouts]

Great stuff. You picked your lifts well. (I had my first meet last week).

Amazing how your squat is level with your deadlift. Has it always been like this?.

His squat isn't leveled with deadlift. His knee wrap is just adding about 75lbs-100lbs to his squat. Without them he squats near 385-415 max just like me

[Jmadden44]

His squat isn't leveled with deadlift. His knee wrap is just adding about 75lbs-100lbs to his squat. Without them he squats near 385-415 max just like me

Actually, I squat 430x4 raw. Thanks tho.

Lol hit 385x5 paused and beltless.

[Maj01]

Good job OP, I'm looking to do a meet one of these days

[Jmadden44]

Good job OP, I'm looking to do a meet one of these days

I recommend looking up a local meet and doing one ASAP. Just for experience. The camaraderie and atmosphere was tremendous man.

[scotpak1979]

My meet went well too. (Im 34).

Got 240kg (528lbs) DL, 175kg squat (390lbs) and 110kg bench (240lbs).

This was at a bodyweight of 79kg (174lbs).

Bench is really weak as i only started flat bench recently (after years of shoulder oain and rotator cuff op).

Didnt realise knee wraps made such a difference but still great effort OP.

[Jmadden44]

My meet went well too. (Im 34).

Got 240kg (528lbs) DL, 175kg squat (390lbs) and 110kg bench (240lbs).

This was at a bodyweight of 79kg (174lbs).

Bench is really weak as i only started flat bench recently (after years of shoulder oain and rotator cuff op).

Didnt realise knee wraps made such a difference but still great effort OP.

Solid numbers. I have a long way to go to be competitive as a 220er lol. Only wore wraps because I wanted 500. Next meet I may go full raw if I'm hitting 500 in training.

[SF_Tryouts]

Actually, I squat 430x4 raw. Thanks tho.

Lol hit 385x5 paused and beltless.

Just saw the video above as I had to switch over from mobile to pc. There's a problem here. You squat more than you deadlift or the same. I mean if you did 430lbs x 4 raw that puts your max at 490lbs so the knee wraps didn't add anything to your 1 rep max. You could've took them off and did the same weight since you already hit 490lbs raw. Yes you have good form on the lifts but I don't know if you started squatting for a long period of time before doing any deadlifts or if you can get way more lbs on the deadlift by switching to sumo. When someone tells me there max squat I assume there deadlift is 100lbs(+-) more than they squat otherwise I would assume there is a form issue but here I don't know what the problem is. Think of it this way. Someone military press 225lbsx8 but there bench press is 185lbs x1?? It wouldn't make any sense as whatever you can military press you can bench press for reps. Have you tried sumo before?


Where did I get 490lbs from? 430*4*.0333+430=Your 1 rep max (487lbs) (Yes I rounded)

[Jmadden44]

Just saw the video above as I had to switch over from mobile to pc. There's a problem here. You squat more than you deadlift or the same. I mean if you did 430lbs x 4 raw that puts your max at 490lbs so the knee wraps didn't add anything to your 1 rep max. You could've took them off and did the same weight since you already hit 490lbs raw. Yes you have good form on the lifts but I don't know if you started squatting for a long period of time before doing any deadlifts or if you can get way more lbs on the deadlift by switching to sumo. When someone tells me there max squat I assume there deadlift is 100lbs(+-) more than they squat otherwise I would assume there is a form issue but here I don't know what the problem is. Think of it this way. Someone military press 225lbsx8 but there bench press is 185lbs x1?? It wouldn't make any sense as whatever you can military press you can bench press for reps. Have you tried sumo before?


Where did I get 490lbs from? 430*4*.0333+430=Your 1 rep max (487lbs) (Yes I rounded)

Intredasting.

Form on DL is terrible, and didn't train it since march. Had prob 15 or so more in me. So 525 roughly. Fix form and perhaps 550+. Assume all you like that someone can deadlift 100+ more pounds than they squat. You're doing just that. Assuming. It's not always how it works. They same goes for max rep calculators. They aren't always accurate. I have successfully raw squatted 430x4, and 450x1. Haven't went higher than that because I didn't need to.

I have training footage on the same channel as the meet footage. You can see my raw squats. Now if my handler really cranked my wraps the way I wanted I could have gotten more lbs out of them. But this was a conservative meet.

http://youtu.be/adgaK7MIYuw

And nice exaggeration lol. 225x8 compared to 185x1. It's not like I squat 650 and pull 5. That would be a problem.

[John Prophet]

not everyone can dead 100 more than they squat. My dead has always been like only 20lbs above my squat


When I see someone dead 100lbs over their squat I assume they have long arms or bad squat form

world record raw squat and world record raw dead are probably pretty close to each other

[mkomaee]

Strong showing man. It looked as if you still had more in you for your squat also. I am actually doing my first meet next Sunday, I'm hoping for a 1175 total (1200 would be awesome). Nonetheless, repped for competing in your first meet!

[Jmadden44]

not everyone can dead 100 more than they squat. My dead has always been like only 20lbs above my squat


When I see someone dead 100lbs over their squat I assume they have long arms or bad squat form

world record raw squat and world record raw dead are probably pretty close to each other

I see where he's coming from. But assuming 100+ more on a dead out of principle alone, idk what that's about.

Strong showing man. It looked as if you still had more in you for your squat also. I am actually doing my first meet next Sunday, I'm hoping for a 1175 total (1200 would be awesome). Nonetheless, repped for competing in your first meet!

Thanks man. Yeah if you watch my 3rd, I got a little too deep and misgrooved. So I conservatively went up 2.5kilos. After I got 501 you can see the confusion on my face lol. Good luck man! 1200 at 181 is a solid 1st meet! Open up light, build that confidence and smash some PRs!