Niki Sims - Training Log for PL Meet

[Niki Sims]

Niki, awesome squats. Those are some serious power clean numbers too. You have incredible lifting potential. I'll be following along. Excited to see your progress.

Thank you Gillian!!

[Niki Sims]

Squat w/ TUBOW
185x5x2

Bench
120x3x3 1st Rep Paused

Power Clean
165x3x5
Dear Diary,
My Power Cleans sucked today.
Rack speed goes from "kinda" to "totally" shitty by the third. Felt so good on Monday!
This is my 2nd set


No time for pull ups. Gunz are feeling neglected.

[Niki Sims]

Forgot to log conditioning on Tuesday:
C2 :30w/1:30r x 6
Airdyne: :20w/1:40r x 6

Friday:
Squat
240x5 PR!!
My chin came up on most of these which killed my hip drive on a couple, so I had to grind them out. But overall totes jazzed considering my old 1RM was 240# after smolov.

Bench
135x3 Paused 1st Rep - PR
*Felt solid so I went up
140x3 Paused 1st Rep - PR!

Dead
280x3

Weighted Pull-ups
10x5x3

Overall a really great training day for intensity. 2 weeks out from my meet.

[Errant]

Wow, Niki! Congrats on the PRs!

[jenica]

Looking good headed into the meet!

I'm curious, what's your lifting background pre-powerlifting?

[Niki Sims]

Wow, Niki! Congrats on the PRs!

Thanks! Feeling pretty good.

Looking good headed into the meet!

I'm curious, what's your lifting background pre-powerlifting?

Thanks Jenica.
My history....
Well, I pretty much have zero "athletic" background, aside from Junior Year in High School when I tried to prove I wasn't a total waste of height and played basketball. Totally failed, hated it.
Until I started CrossFit 4 years ago, I was really just a physically irresponsible soft girl who liked watching SVU while on the elliptical. Started CrossFit a little over 4 years ago, opened up a CrossFit gym 3 years ago, toned down the CF douchery (although I'll never complain about the lack of shirts in CrossFit) and got more into Oly in the last year. Competed in a USAW meet earlier this year. Now I want to teach everyone how to lift properly and take responsibility for their strength so they can have the best asses possible to make the world a better place. That's about it in a little nutshell. I'm really enjoying powerlifting right now, but I can't decide if I want to compete in atother Oly meet after my PL meet or go for another PL meet. I think I'll see how it goes and decide after that.

[jenica]

Thanks! Feeling pretty good.



Thanks Jenica.
My history....
Well, I pretty much have zero "athletic" background, aside from Junior Year in High School when I tried to prove I wasn't a total waste of height and played basketball. Totally failed, hated it.
Until I started CrossFit 4 years ago, I was really just a physically irresponsible soft girl who liked watching SVU while on the elliptical. Started CrossFit a little over 4 years ago, opened up a CrossFit gym 3 years ago, toned down the CF douchery (although I'll never complain about the lack of shirts in CrossFit) and got more into Oly in the last year. Competed in a USAW meet earlier this year. Now I want to teach everyone how to lift properly and take responsibility for their strength so they can have the best asses possible to make the world a better place. That's about it in a little nutshell. I'm really enjoying powerlifting right now, but I can't decide if I want to compete in atother Oly meet after my PL meet or go for another PL meet. I think I'll see how it goes and decide after that.

Professional ass builder. Ha!

It's cool that you're trying different things. I think that will make you (or anyone) an even better coach than you already are.

I'm excited to see your take on a PL vs WL meet.

[Niki Sims]

Monday:
Squat
Should have been
235x5x3
Ended up being
235x5
235x3x2
235 felt really heavy and couldn't grind it out. I think I watched too much Grey's Anatomy this weekend and became weaker.

Bench
135x5x3

Power Clean
170x1x10

Weighted Chin-ups
12.5x5x3

[Niki Sims]

Wednesday:
Squat
190x5x2 did these pause squats

Bench
122.5x3x3 paused 1st rep each set

Power clean
Was supposed to be 170x3x5
Ended up being:
170x3 pretty bad reps
170x2
160x3x3 also kinda shitty

Basically feel like a bag of dicks this week. Quite looking forward to a deload week next week.

Weighted pull-ups
12.5x5x3

[Jordan Feigenbaum]

Basically feel like a bag of dicks this week. Quite looking forward to a deload week next week.

Could be worse, i.e. a small bag of dicks. Also, the deload will be GLORIOUS.