Did my first full meet today...

[BigTallOx]

Today I did my first full powerlifting meet today, the APF/AAPF in Peoria AZ. I squatted 475 ( deep enough for the bar to touch the bottom of the chains ), I benched a too easy 325 raw ( kind of kicking myself for not trying more ), and pulled 525. All in all I'm pretty happy with how my lifts went.

[huskybear]

Well done BTO! Looks like you popped that cherry with some nice lifts!!!!! congrats

[WILD BILL]

Way to go on ur 1st meet man. Once you do one you will always be hooked. Congratulations.

[BigTallOx]

Crap, I just tried to upload a video of my squat, but I'm not at home and apparently the connection I have sucks. Anyway, 90% of the video was of them raising the monolift to the top -1, lol. I guess I'll have to wait until I get home to post it.

Way to go on ur 1st meet man. Once you do one you will always be hooked. Congratulations.

Thanks. Oh, I'm totally hooked. After today, I can really see a 600 pound deadlift ( a goal of mine ) in the near future.

[mike95763]

Congrats on the great lifts. I can't wait to see the video. What were your attempts? We will have to have a little race to 600 in the dead lift. Congrats again, see you next week.

[lil' power]

Congrats on your first meet !

[geoffsherman]

Well done!!!

[vdizenzo]

Well done!

[BigTallOx]

Congrats on the great lifts. What were your attempts?

Thanks Mike. My attempts were

Squat 385, 445, 475
Bench 285, 315, 325
Dead 445, 500, 525

I got 3 white lights on all 9 lifts, ie I'm way too conservative. I lowered my bench opener because after squatting my shoulder wasn't feeling 100%, but I didn't notice it when benching. The 315 went up really really easy, but I was still slightly concerned about my shoulder not feeling quite right so I only thought I should go up 10 more pounds for the 3rd, but the 325 went up like nothing too. I probably could have benched 340 today. Same with the 525 deadlift, it went up pretty easy ( way easier then when I last did it in the gym ). The 475 squat didn't go up easy but was solid, but I was way below parallel. I think once I KNOW where parallel is my squat will go up 50 pounds without doing anything else.

It definitely puts a different spin on things basically doing 3 max effort exercises in one day.

We will have to have a little race to 600 in the dead lift.

Cool, sounds great. We need to start training deadlifts together.

[Donnajo]

Great job....the first meet is always rough because it is brand new....I know I did mine in sept....doing my third next weekend....great job and great numbers.....

[Brian Hopper]

Congrats!

[Lones Green]

Nice work brother.

[Invain]

Great job man.

[john bernor]

awesome work , congrats and GOD BLESS

in HIS grip forever
john

[BigTallOx]

Here's the video. I believe it's my opener....

Video

[Pete22]

Awesome job man, congrats!

[fulldaddy]

Nice work BTO and congratulations. That was nice depth on the squat - and I do think you should get extra credit for "distance traveled". I really appreciate seeing people get deep on the squats. I remember being concerned with how one of my shoulders felt after the squats as well but just like yours - I didn't feel it at all benching.

Good work man - it is cool to watch your progress.

[jbrin0tk]

Great job, man! Haha, it's hilarious that the first minute of a 1:20 video features someone jacking the monolift up so high!

[Brian C]

Great job and awesome squat! God I would die if I had to travel down that far. Sometimes it pays being so dam short.

[evilxxx]

Good job on whites on all lifts!!

[SoreFoot8343]

Hey WTG! Thats awesome!

[mike95763]

Great job on the squat depth. Looked really easy too. It looked like the guy cranking the monolift up was working pretty hard though

[mosley1990]

Great job, man. You have any more videos for us?

[Sensei]

Congratulations Ox. Nicely done!

[BigTallOx]

You have any more videos for us?

No, my laptop died ( I do video capture on my laptop ) and there wasn't anywhere to plug it in.