Zen and the lifting of heavy things. http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog "You going to train trapeze on that diet, fat boy?" Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:44:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Powerlifting comp 2 http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=236 http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=236#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:44:07 +0000 tyggerjai http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=236 So, 8 weeks on, another comp. I’m a little disappointed, but hey, all improvement is good. I had 2 goals going into this – to bench 100 kg, and to total 380, which is the minimum total to qualify as a D grade raw powerlifter.

I benched 90 pretty easily, but totally failed 95, twice, even though I made 92.5 easily last comp. I have a couple of theories about this – one is that the rock climbing I’d been doing before the first comp was actually good for me – I cut it out 3 weeks before the comp this time in case it compromised my training, but next time, fuck it. So more climbing and more trapeze.

The squat was my biggest improvement – 135 kg, up from 110. To be honest, I should have made 120 last time, but I didn’t, so I get to claim 25 kg improvement this time.

Deadlift: 165. Failed on 175, but came damn close! I was worried about the dead, it didn’t seem to have improved much, but I think I would have made 170.

There’s clearly some strategy in choosing attempt weights that I’m not across yet – I tend to start with the heaviest I think I can lift, and then increase optimistically. If I’d settled for 130 in the squat, would I have made 175 in the dead? Who knows. If I’d settled for 170 in the dead, my total would have been 5 kg higher, but I would have wondered about 175.

Anyway. That’s a total of 390 kg, 10 kg over my goal and 32.5 over my last total. It was all from the squat, but I’ll take that, thanks :)

I do have to say, I am unconvinced my my coaches approach to programming. So I have my copy of NROL and SS out, and I’ll work something out for myself next cycle, I think. And go back on the protein powder and creatine – I got pretty slack with the protein this time around. My squat results suggest that wasn’t actually the problem, but we’ll see :)

]]> http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=236 0 My First Competition! http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=234 http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=234#comments Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:18:40 +0000 tyggerjai http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=234 Today, I competed in a powerlifting comp for the first time. Pretty small one, maybe 20 lifters, but an official sanctioned event, with drug testers and everything.In fact, one of the ladies lifting set a couple of Australian records in her class. I set no Australian records today. But since it was my first comp, everything I lifted was a personal best!
Squat: 110 kg. Failed on 120, quite spectacularly, but hey, if you make the last lift easily, you probably weren’t trying hard enough….

Bench Press: 92.5 kg. Which is 1 kg more than my weight at weigh-in.

Deadlift: 160 kg.

Rawr.

]]> http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=234 0 Back into it. http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=232 http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=232#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:54:49 +0000 tyggerjai http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=232 I have been lifting, honest! Last week:
Bench: 4×6 @ 67.5
DL: 4×6 @ 115
Squat: 4×6 @ 70

And today I ran – 2 laps of Princes park (~6.2 km) in 37 minutes. It’s a start.

]]> http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=232 0 Daily Progress http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=228 http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=228#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:52:38 +0000 tyggerjai http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=228 Skipped a week last week. Hmm.
Bench: 4×8 @ 52.5
Dead: 4×8 @ 87
Squat 4×8 @ 55

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Dead – 5×10 @ 70

Squat – 5×10 @ 45

 

Curls – 5×10 @ 10

Flying triceps – 5×10 @ 10

Dumbbell press – 5×10 @ 12.5

]]> http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=227 0 Powerlifting! http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=225 http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=225#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:28:27 +0000 tyggerjai http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=225 So I went today, finally, to the powerlifting club at Melbourne Uni. Had my form adjusted in everything, and discovered I haven’t lost as much strength as I’d feared. Weights now brought to you in kilograms and including the bar as 20 kg:

Benchpress: 60 (was 75)

Deadlift: 90 (was 106)

Squat: 60 (was 102)

Squat seems low, but I was kinda bushed after the deadlifts. And squatting 100 did nearly kill me. Back on Friday, after climbing on Wednesday. This should be interesting….

]]> http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=225 0 Aha! http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=222 http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=222#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:38:56 +0000 tyggerjai http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=222 Better map. One lap of Princes Park is in fact 3.17k, which is more believable, given that time. Though tonight it was 17.09.

]]> http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=222 0 Jogging, redux. http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=217 http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=217#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:38:33 +0000 tyggerjai http://www.iron.eccentrify.com/blog/?p=217 I have a new course, around Princes park, and I finally timed it the other day. It’s a little shy of 5K.

17’19″

I think I was running a lot further in Macau….

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One short in the last set. But I think I’ll call it good.

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