Simon's Log

[pjb923]

Good luck Simon!

[Alcoholiday]

good luck bro!

[Waittz]

best of luck big dog, you'll crush those weights.

[Simon C]

Very fun day!

Weighed 80.90kg in morning before weigh in, so ate and drank a bit.

Weight 81.10kg

Squat 205kg
Bench 120kg
Dead 215kg
Total 540kg

Squats
1st. 185kg - smoked, 3 whites
2nd. 195kg - smoked, 2 whites(dumbshit trainee referee called me on depth)
3rd. 205kg - smoked, 3 whites

Benches
1st. 112.5kg - smoked, 3 whites
2nd. 120kg - smoked, 3 whites
3rd. 125kg - fucked this one up, 3 reds

Deads
1st. 200kg - easy, 3 whites
2nd. 215kg - easy, 3 whites
3rd. 227.5kg - barely got this off the floor lol, 3 reds

20kg PR on squat, Equal PR on bench, 5kg PR on deadlift. Went 7/9 lifts for the day, enjoyable first meet.

Squats were great, I'm sure I had more left in the tank for those. Ended up with the exact total I predicted, but with 5kg more on the squat, and 5kg less on the deadlift, all good.

Pushed the last deadlift to a pretty high number as my second attempt was really good, 227.5kg = about 500lbs, plus 552.5kg would have been an unofficial national sub junior total record.

Not today haha, probably had 220kg-222.5kg in me, but 5kg makes a big difference at the limit!

3rd bench just went pear shaped, more practice with my shirt should fix this up, pretty much my signature bench press fuck up lol.

I won my class, as the sole competitor in the 82.5kg class and got most improved lifter(from 0 to 540 I guess haha). I was 3rd on wilks at the competition, two 125kg lifters were ahead of me. Gives me a 6th national ranking within the 82.5kg class. Also qualified for the open nationals, junior nationals, and sub-junior worlds.

Making weight was easy haha, I lost too much weight. This is good, I could have gotten to 79kg probably with sauna time. Means I can afford to gain 3.5kg, and still be able to make weight.

Now for my next competition, likely on Sept 13 at the same location, another local competition. Got to start thinking about goals for then, want to total close to 600kg.

[Waittz]

nice work! Good lifts and congrats man.

[Alcoholiday]

good job!

[Frank.S]

great meet simon!

[Fulmen]

Get 'em.

[Simon C]

Thanks all,

I'll have to wait for any pics and vids as I grab them off people who took them, but I should have it all within a couple weeks at least haha.

I'm gonna sit on my ass until next Saturday, although I might go to the gym on Wednesday for some ridiculously light stuff, and to get pictures of the meet from people.

I'm thinking these goals should be fine for a meet on September 13:

squat: 225kg(new squat record)
bench: 135kg
dead: 241kg(new deadlift record)
total: 601kg(new total record)

If I hit those, then November 29 goals would be:

Squat: 235kg
Bench: 143.5kg(new bench record)
Dead: 250kg
Total: 628.5kg

So after hitting sep 13 goals, these goals would gain me a new bench record, and break my own squat, dead, and total records. And I'd total "A Grade" on the IPF grading scale.

That's the idea anyway...

[Simon C]

Also,

There was this fairly big guy. 90-100kgs, a Russian guy with an accent and everything. Who called himself "the axe", he even got the announcers to call him "the man only known as, the axe" LOL. Funny thing is, he lifted shit all hahahhahaha!!!!

If that's what being "the axe" means, I don't wanna be no axe!!!

[pjb923]

Congrats Simon. Very nice work!

[MindPower]

Awesome work mate, congrats

[Simon C]

Thanks guys,

The comp was a real confidence booster, especially with the squats, it's made me raise my end of year goals even higher.

This week is going to be boring as hell, only going to the gym once to let me recover from the meet, plus I got 2 exams, at least I'm still thinking about the meet, so won't think much about exams at all

I'll be back in the gym Wednesday for some very light(not speed work, just light) training, 110kg deads, 75kg squats, 65kg bent-over rows, and some hammer curls, you know, for my gunz.

Then back into normal training on Saturday, although will still be light. Then will have to confirm September's meet, and plan a training cycle for that, it's about 11.5 weeks of training away, so probably start a 10 week cycle to peak for that meet.

[Simon C]

Okay I've drawn up my 11 week cycle for my next meet, as an attached excel file. The exact numbers will vary a bit from that, but hopefully not too much!

[Frank.S]

.. sold on linear periodization?

I think bench especially needs to be trained so much differently with gear, and remember.. my shirt is ipf legal so its not some double ply only think. raw 3-4-5-6 boards learning to lock the weight in the right spot, and lots of tricep work. If I tried to do a 10rm or whatever in my shirt i wouldn't be near touching.

[tkinsley]

Nice meet, Simon! Yeah, I'm a little late to your party...

[Simon C]

Originally Posted by tkinsley

Nice meet, Simon! Yeah, I'm a little late to your party...

Haha, Thanks!

Originally Posted by Frank.S

.. sold on linear periodization?

I think bench especially needs to be trained so much differently with gear, and remember.. my shirt is ipf legal so its not some double ply only think. raw 3-4-5-6 boards learning to lock the weight in the right spot, and lots of tricep work. If I tried to do a 10rm or whatever in my shirt i wouldn't be near touching.

I think I've said this before, I do board work twice a week! 2 board, 3 board, and sometimes 1 board, I don't think I have much of a need for 4 board at this point though(our boards are big phone books )

Assistance work isn't cycled the same, and drops off towards the last 2 weeks of training. Speed work isn't cycled like that either.

Linear periodisation is a big part of it, but it's more of a hybrid system with the assistance work and the speed work. I think the way we train at my club is way easier on the body than intensity based(Westside) and volume based(sheiko, etc) stuff, and its a good middle ground between the two, works really well, and in the long run my body will be much less beat up!!!

Also, my coach brought in chains to the gym! So might try some speed squats/deads with those!!!

Oh, and I just bought some baby powder