The Official Powerlifting and Strongman Family Appreciation Thread: Part XVII

[Marshall28]

Kyle Keough's Video

[psychodiver9]

Has anyone felt weak as hell going into a meet result in a good performance?

[bobbydigitaloa]

Kyle Keough's Video

I am so happy for Kyle...this is just awesome!

[Marshall28]

I am so happy for Kyle...this is just awesome!

I agree. Now he will jump to 165 and start building the total again.

[brotein1992]

Has anyone felt weak as hell going into a meet result in a good performance?

I haven't. The only meet i did where my confidence was extremely high was my first meet and I killed it. After that for my last few meets it seemed I would burnout 2-3 weeks out. Whole reason for this post is me saying I need a good month of build up going into it but I keep ****ing it up somehow

[Big Sexy J]

what happened with your third squat attempt? it looked like the clamp wasn't on properly, or was that unrelated to your failure?

Just lost balance walking out. Got squat command and it was too late for me to re-rack and try again. One spotter grabbed the bar when I was walking it in and the bar see-sawed. No big deal though...I am fine.

[ecchastang]

Has anyone felt weak as hell going into a meet result in a good performance?

I have been on both sides of that coin. I have gone in feeling weak and killed it, and have gone in feeling great and flopped.

[ShortDave]

Kyle Keough's Video

Those second and third squats looked high as Snoop

[dlt76028]

Those second and third squats looked high as Snoop

agreed.

edit: Oaks looked high too.

[dtaps24]

It is literally impossible to tell his depth from that video, but I thought the 3rd looked the deepest.

[MF83]

Has anyone felt weak as hell going into a meet result in a good performance?

I'm feeling weak as hell going into a meet on Feb 21 but I know why. I switched from three days a week to like double that the last few weeks, splitting bench from the other lifts and am paying for it by being underrecovered, mostly just to naively go to the gym more often when bored. The losing fifteen pounds since mid-December is another factor. That said, my absolute strength has still gone up and I'm looking at adding 23 points to my Wilks since November if I hit my thirds. Relying on my 12 day deload (beginning after my session today) to salvage everything and help me recover haha.

[Big Sexy J]

It is literally impossible to tell his depth from that video, but I thought the 3rd looked the deepest.

Just roll with it man. JUST ROLL WITH IT

[ShortDave]

It is literally impossible to tell his depth from that video, but I thought the 3rd looked the deepest.

This is the deepest point of his 501, I think that saying it's impossible to judge depth off of this is a stretch

[michael_xyz]

Just having quick look at some squat videos, seemed judges were a bit lax.

[NeverEnough89]

Has anyone felt weak as hell going into a meet result in a good performance?

I'll let you know this Sunday. I'm 5 days out, squatting tonight and benching tomorrow then resting, currently feeling a little beat up.

[arian11]

Just having quick look at some squat videos, seemed judges were a bit lax.

Y'all are a bunch of haters.

[Big Sexy J]

Y'all are a bunch of haters.

As a USA Powerlifting Club Level Coach & USA Powerlifting State Referee, you should definitely have a more in depth, analytical response instead of "Y'all are a bunch of haters". I'm pretty disappointed in you considering your professional status in the community.

[JohnnyRingo350]

This is the deepest point of his 501, I think that saying it's impossible to judge depth off of this is a stretch

I don't know what magical angle could make that depth. The third looked better but that second was high as fuh.




Also, as I was typing this I sneezed and sharted. 100% srs. That is all.

[arian11]

As a USA Powerlifting Club Level Coach & USA Powerlifting State Referee, you should definitely have a more in depth, analytical response instead of "Y'all are a bunch of haters". I'm pretty disappointed in you considering your professional status in the community.

Whoa bro, I am now a USA Powerlifting Senior National Coach. It is a very prestigious certificate in the eyes of many great ones like Alex Kang. Here are some thoughts he had on my achievement of this new certificate.

"as Maliek said, can't have a crossfitter coaching elite powerlifters"

"how can some weak 1 year crossfit POS coach an elite equipped powerlifter with 10 years of experience, makes zero sense"

"these new coaches don't know anything about equipment or can even wrap knees decently, or even know how to roll wraps"

Enjoy the rest of your day!

[invain]

Has anyone felt weak as hell going into a meet result in a good performance?

Last couple meets I did I felt like complete **** the last few weeks and then ended up hitting big PR totals.

[invain]

Just lost balance walking out. Got squat command and it was too late for me to re-rack and try again. One spotter grabbed the bar when I was walking it in and the bar see-sawed. No big deal though...I am fine.

Damn I didn't see the guy grab the bar initially. It looked like you were gonna pass the **** out.

[invain]

ernie seemed to have a really off meet, he only got his squat opener, missed his third attempt on bench (407? 412?), and I think he missed his third deadlift attempt around 750, stopped paying attention though

tee hit 820-ish squat, 442-ish 2nd attempt bench, and missed 740/750 on deadlift I believe

it was weird seeing them all in person for the first time

Ernie tore his pec just a few weeks ago. I have no idea how he's even competing this soon after.

[Big Sexy J]

Whoa bro, I am now a USA Powerlifting Senior National Coach. It is a very prestigious certificate in the eyes of many great ones like Alex Kang. Here are some thoughts he had on my achievement of this new certificate.

"as Maliek said, can't have a crossfitter coaching elite powerlifters"

"how can some weak 1 year crossfit POS coach an elite equipped powerlifter with 10 years of experience, makes zero sense"

"these new coaches don't know anything about equipment or can even wrap knees decently, or even know how to roll wraps"

Enjoy the rest of your day!

I thought you were decent until you revealed that you speak to that little rice picking pussy.

[dang111]

Whoa bro, I am now a USA Powerlifting Senior National Coach. It is a very prestigious certificate in the eyes of many great ones like Alex Kang. Here are some thoughts he had on my achievement of this new certificate.

"as Maliek said, can't have a crossfitter coaching elite powerlifters"

"how can some weak 1 year crossfit POS coach an elite equipped powerlifter with 10 years of experience, makes zero sense"

"these new coaches don't know anything about equipment or can even wrap knees decently, or even know how to roll wraps"

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Bro, didn't you know it's a requirement for a coach to be stronger than his/her athletes? I hear Dietmar Wolf can squat 500kg rawwwwwwww after a literal 1 mile walkout. Also, how are you a referee if you can't even unrack 1300lbs?

[jsullivan93]

Thanks for the support fellas. Next time I'm definitely going to fly in order to avoid driving 18hrs, followed immediately by a hard weight cut lmao. Was definitely not good for the strongs

RUM8 was fantastic and was the best run meet I've ever been at

[arian11]

I thought you were decent until you revealed that you speak to that little rice picking pussy.

Erick told me how Gendler left Kang to be coached by Erick instead. So I just asked Kang how come he doesn't post up training footage of Gendler on his YT channel anymore. He stopped responding....

[Big Sexy J]

Erick told me how Gendler left Kang to be coached by Erick instead. So I just asked Kang how come he doesn't post up training footage of Gendler on his YT channel anymore. He stopped responding....

I have no idea who Gendler is, but that sounds funny.

[KyleKeough148]

This is the deepest point of his 501, I think that saying it's impossible to judge depth off of this is a stretch

I was surprised that the first two were white-lighted; both felt high. I had done a better job of it at points in training but was still hitting my brakes too much instead of dropping into the hole. The third was the best of the three and was probably fine. All of these look high to me too, but I've learned that the "magic angle" at least for my squats, makes a bigger difference than for most. I did a front/side video a little while ago to show the difference, though I don't have the post count to post it.

At best, my squats are borderline, and the best thing I can do is to try and do reputable meets where I'll be held to a high standard. I do think that I didn't address this enough in training and that I'm lucky it didn't bite me in the ass.

[arian11]

I have no idea who Gendler is, but that sounds funny.

AKA Bobby Shields.

http://prowrestling.wikia.com/wiki/Bobby_Shields

Has been in the WWE and for a little while Kang was posting a bunch of his training and competition footage to promote his channel and coaching I guess.

[invain]

What's the biggest swing in strength you guys have had in 1 - 2 week period? I had a pretty nasty flu bug a couple weeks ago, came on the day after hitting a big squat PR. Today like an idiot I tried pushing things too soon and completely bombed a weight that should that I was hoping to double. Dropped 40 pounds and barely ground out one rep with a weight I can normally hit for a solid 3 - 4 reps.

Really wanted to go slit my wrists in the bathroom after wards.