Walter's Competition Training Log

[Walter Palmer]

Good luck at the meet Walter. It will be interesting to see how your plan of training through the meet works.

Thanks Frank. Getting registered for our meet in July is on my to-do list for tomorrow.

[Bryan Dobson]

Have fun at this training meet. It will be interesting.

[Walter Palmer]

Thursday, 10 April 2014

SQ - 45x5, 135x5, 225x2, 275x2x2
BP - 45x5, 135x5, 185x2x3
Mobility/Rolling
Prowler - 180x2x100'
Mow the Yard

Just staying loose and planning on good night's rest.

[Walter Palmer]

Saturday, 12 April 2012

Georgetown Classic Powerlifting Meet (SPF - Southern Powerlifting Federation)

Weigh-in = 218.6

SQ (w/knee wraps)

415 - good
425 - good
435 - good (15 lb. meet PR)
Back-off set of 365x3

BP

280 - good
290 - redlight
295 - miss
Back-off set of 255x3

DL

420 - good
440 - good
455 - good (5 lb. PR and 15 lb. meet PR)

Total = 1,170 (20 lb. meet PR)

Pretty good day today. As mentioned before, always planned to train through this meet and still hit some PR's despite less than ideal training the past few weeks. It was a long day with 9 hours between my first SQ and my last DL.

The SQ's were easy and I had another 10-15 pounds in me, maybe more. The DL were also good and might have been able to do another 5-10 pounds despite the long day. The BP continues to be my nemesis. Some may be mental, a lot of it is technique. The 290 flew up but I jumped the press command - no excuse. The 295 was coming up fine but something happened that caused the lift to go off-kilter and it cratered.

Today should provide a good training stimulus and I incurred no injuries. My goal of 1,200 for this year is definitely within reach.

[Bryan Dobson]

Congrats on the prs and the meet pr.

[Michael Wolf]

Nice work, Walter. Sounds like it did what it was supposed to do as a training meet and you hit a 20lb meet PR to boot. 1200+ and a 300+ lb bench in July, here we come...

[John Petrizzo]

Congrats, Walter. 1200 is right there for you.

[Walter Palmer]

Thanks guys. Next meet will be in July so have plenty of time to add some weight to the bar. I think I'm going to get some hands-on attention to bench technique in the upcoming weeks to tighten up my form and stop throwing away lifts I can make. And, I'm not traveling as much over the next two months so will have better control over diet and sleep. Other than that, I just need to stay healthy.

[Walter Palmer]

Monday, 14 April 2014

Paused SQ - 45x5, 135x5, 225x2, 275x5
Rack Pull - 135x5, 225x2, 315x2, 365x5
BP w/2ct pause - 45x5, 135x5, 185x2, 225x5
LTE - 80x3x10 / BB Curl - 60x3x12
HLR - 3x10

Goal this week is to hit one set of 3 at RPE 9 for comp lifts and one set of 5 at RPE 9 for supplemental work. As one would expect after the competition on Saturday, the weights to hit RPE 9 today were lower than usual. A little stiff but didn't seem to be any worse for the wear from Saturday.

[FrankSanders]

Super work Walter. 1200 for you at our meet in July looks good.