You did really well today. That is a great squat.
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You did really well today. That is a great squat.
That DL flight was tough. Your attempts were hardly even a couple minutes apart. If the head judge hadn't made you hold the second at the top for half an hour, you'd have had more juice for the third attempt. It was still an awesome performance, and that third squat went up really fast. Good to see you and the big fellas today. Great work.
It's always impressive to read your log and see your videos on Instagram. Even if you're not 100 % satisfied with all the lifts they're very inspirational from my perspective. Well done!
Thanks Tom. Fun hanging out, too.
Ya, the attempts were pretty close together and that 4-5 second hold at the top didn't help anything. But bottom line is that my deadlift wasn't where I wanted or expected it to be today. So I need to get it there. I am happy about my squat though. Thanks for coming, good to see you Mr. Black Belt.
Thanks, Bergstedt.
Video of all 9 attempts is below.
Squat is obscured because of the 5 spotter rule, but you can see they were all solid and fast. And even though you can't really see my knees, if you've watched a lot of squats you know they're deep (even if you didn't trust the strict USAPL judging). My warm-ups actually didn't feel great and it was awkward getting set-up under the bar in these racks which don't allow me to do my usual set-up. But come the platform, the lifts were there.
Bench videos all started mid-attempt after I had the bar out. The time between taking the bar out and getting the 'start' command was quite long, pauses were very reasonable. I elected not to take a hand-off as they require you use their hand-off person and I've been taking it out myself lately in training anyway.
DLs...well....shiiiiit. I did re-tweak my back, probably on that third attempt, which I switched to alt grip for. It looks like it was still going up and I just put it down for no reason but I felt my back giving out right in the spot of the tweak and I probably avoided a bad one by putting it down. It's about back to where it was 10 days ago, which is annoying but not awful. I will allow it to heal fully this time and that should still give me a bunch of pulling sessions before the Fall Classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg0Vz5lQwWM
Good job Wolf. In the long run, I'm not worried about your DL. We know it has the opportunity to be really big once you get the tweak under control. Always hard to judge how hard to push before a meet. Maybe that tough third rep in training was a mistake but how to know these things without throttling down too much? Great job on SQ's and a really solid meet overall.
Jesus, you crushed those squats dude. I think you had at least 10kg in the tank.
Tough break on the DL. Glad to see you back on the platform. Definitely a positive showing in my book and now you get to work towards a healthy training cycle and some PR's. Nice job brother.
Impressive total, Wolf! Why were you having difficulty with the hook on your 2nd? I'm curious because I haven't been able to set mine consistently this summer, and I'm not quite sure why (although I have a few ideas).
Hey man:
great meet totals, good to meet you. Now let's go kill it at the Nationals.
Good job, Wolf! It looked like you could have doubled your 3rd squat attempt.