USAPL Battle of the Great Lakes 2011 Bench Press 2nd attempt 520 PR!

Squat 680 miss depth
680 good
720 miss

Bench 490 good
520 good pr
530 miss- close

Dead 695 good
750 good broke state record
780 miss


Bench and dead are doing well, need to work on the squats, a tighter suir could help, I can put the straps up on the squat suit myself at this meet. But still need to be pushing 800 if I want to be at the Elite level at 242. But 38 and stronger than I was back in 1995, 5 years now since I started squatting and deadlifting again.

Speed deads

515x1 w/3 chains loose suit straps down- 6 sets 45 sec to 1 minute b/ sets

Band kb swings 3 sets

1 set ghr bw

Abs 3 sets

Bench

Shirted bench-last heavy bench

445x1 did not touch
495x1 long pause
515x1 long pause
545x1 2 board

Will plan on going 490, 512-518, 524-529 at contest 3/26

Band pulldowns
Band pull a parts

Will do some light/medium reverse band bench next Monday

Update

Tuesday 3/8

Bench w/ shirt

495x1
515x1
495x1
475x1

Light raw squats
405x3

Saturday 3/12
Suit straps down w/wraps

625x1
675x1
695x1
705x2 reverse band no wraps

45 degree back raises
3 x 10





Most I've squatted straps down since my first go around in powerlifting back in 1995

Arnold pro deadlift

Weighed in at 237

710 opener easy
755 good, felt like I had room to spare
777 missed, only got it a few inches off the floor.

Really thought it was a conservative 3rd, but oh well, placed 7th out of 13

Bench from 3/2

435x1

Super katana

515x1 2 board
545x1 2 board

500x1 x 3 sets, all touched