Meet Recap and Future Plans

Meet Recap

To start off the meet went awesome. It was a great venue with a lot of great lifters there. It was ran about as well as a meet could be ran and I will definitely be competing there in the future.

I want to thank Nic for coming with me and being a great training partner through this whole process. He had a great day and I'm sure he'll be posting his own meet recap soon. On to the day. I also want to thank Dom and Brock LaFace for coming and supporting us. Brock took some videos and pics that I may post later.

Before I talk about the meet I'm going to relay a story that happened to Nic and I the night before the meet.

We really wanted to find a buffet to get our bloat on before the meet since we were both a little light. We walked to this place called Mongolian Grill that was right next to our motel. When we got there we were told it wasn't a buffet type place so we kindly showed our way out. We got in my truck and as I was starting the ignition I saw Nic look through my window and say, "What the fuck?" I looked back and here is the guy from the Mongolian Grill at my driver's side window. I rolled it down a bit and here's where it gets crazy...Asian crazy.
"You come back and eat. Girl say it not all you eat but you go through many time."
"No that's ok we're going to go somewhere else."
"No you come here and go through many time. She no work here long. She wrong. You go through many time."
"No, really it's ok we're going to get something else."
"Don't go to mall. It thirteen dolla. You come here it nine dolla."
At this point he reaches into my window and taps my shoulder.
"Don't reach into my car. We're going somewhere else. Leave."
"Ooh ok. Haha."

I rolled up my window and all I could do is laugh. I'm not a racist person, but when someone perpetuates a stereotype to that degree what else can I do? I'm sure if I was in Mongolia people would laugh at the way I talked when trying to speak their language, but really, who the hell runs after customers like that and tries to order them back into the restaurant. Times are tough, but I didn't realize they were that tough.

On to the meet.

Squat:
485: good lift
535: good lift
551: good lift (meet PR)

I took a conservative opener for a number of different reasons. Number one reason being that the first squat is like the first hit in a football game. You are nervous as hell until you get that first one in and then after that it is all business. The 485 opener felt lighter than my last warmup set at 405. Man do I love squat bars and monolifts. 535 I don't really remember too much about. The 551 felt heavy when I took it off the rack and I actually thought I was going to get called for depth on my way up. Once I racked it I looked back and saw two whites and a red and gave a little celebratory fist pump. It probably looked really lame but I don't care- PR baby.

Bench
275: good lift (PR)
284: good lift (PR)
292: no lift

Bench went about as well as I expected it to. This is still my weakest lift and a cause for some timidness when I talk about my lifting. Everyone asks, "How much you bench?" To which I reply, "About285ishitsnotreallymybestliftlet'stalkaboutsquattinganddeadlifting, those are my money lifts." Either way I'll take the 284. PR baby

Deadlift:
535: good lift
586: good lift (PR)
600: no lift (missed above my knee)

Man did I want that 600 deadlift. I got it above my knee but just couldn't pull my hips through. It's probably a weight that I could hit in training, but that doesn't really mean anything. Gotta do it in a meet. I'm still happy with the 586 though. PR baby.

Total: 1421 (PR)

All I can say is...PR baby

Future Plans

I'm fat. Not as fat as some, but fatter than I'd like to be. To that end I'm going on a diet. Nic and Matt and I are doing a "biggest loser" contest. Whoever loses the most body fat wins. The diet is going to last eight weeks and end the Friday before Memorial Day. We are going to set it up so that body fat lost is points for and muscle lost is points against. I'll be talking more about that and how I'm going to set up my diet and training tomorrow so stay tuned. I'll also be posting weekly pics and body fat updates. The only two that count are the starting and ending numbers but I just want a way to track my progress and stay honest.

The loser (actual loser, not biggest loser) is going to buy wings and drinks at either Buffalo Wild Wings or Hooters. I will not lose. I cannot lose.

“It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.” -Genghis Khan (Yes, I realize the irony of the authorship of that quote.)

Song of the Day:

The Loved Ones are an awesome band. I've seen them live a number of times and I would highly recommend them. Especially their first full LP, Build and Burn. Every song on that album is great.