Manveer Gets Competitive

[manveer]

Background
M, 31, 6'1", ~240#

Current PRs:
Squat: 565
Bench: 355
Deadlift: 555
Press: 225

My intermediate log: Manveer's Log

Meet Results
I've competed in a couple of meets run by Dave Abdemoulaie in Chicago.

Oct 24, 2015 - Starting Strength Fall Classic
Squat: 425 / 455 / 485
Press: 185 / 205 / 225 (miss)
Deadlift: 465 / 505 / 545
Total: 1235#
Wilks: 332.26

June 18, 2016 - Crossfit Total Smash
Squat: 515 / 550 / 565
Press: 195 (miss) / 215 / 225
Deadlift: 500 / 522.5 (misload, good lift) / 545 / 585 (miss)
Total: 1335#
Wilks: 356.x (weight-out after final deadlift was 243.x)

My next meet is the Starting Strength Fall Classic on October 29, once again at Chicago Elite Fitness. I’ll enter a powerlifting meet after that.

Program
I've been following Texas Method for over three years. Starting Strength LP before that, not executed perfectly by any means.

I'm ready for something different. I'm starting with RTS Guided Programming tomorrow. I’m excited and a bit nervous.

[tdood]

Welcome to the competitive logs. Good luck with the new programming. You have solid numbers and textbook form, I'll be following!

[bean counter]

In for the awesomeness. Also interested to see what RTS Guided Programming delivers.

[John Petrizzo]

Looking forward to following along. You made amazing progress with TM. I could not imagine following that for three plus years.

[DeriHughes]

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[Gerhard]

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[gtl]

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[lou t]

Good to see you jumping into competition. What traing did you decide to go forward with

[Karl Schudt]

Good luck!

[manveer]

Welcome to the competitive logs. Good luck with the new programming. You have solid numbers and textbook form, I'll be following!

In for the awesomeness. Also interested to see what RTS Guided Programming delivers.

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Good luck!

Thanks for the support and for following along! It will be interesting doing some of the movements I've never done before. The supplemental stuff in next week's assignment is kind of interesting too. Like how do I do ab wheel x10 @7, x10 @8 and x10@9? Same thing with "bus drivers". Those things aren't easy to incrementally load like barbell exercises. I'll figure it out/ask questions as I go.

Looking forward to following along. You made amazing progress with TM. I could not imagine following that for three plus years.

Thanks! It was a grind, but very simple, so I liked that aspect.

Good to see you jumping into competition. What traing did you decide to go forward with

I'm signed up with RTS/Mike T for Guided Programming. The programming is designed for you to (ideally) do 3 evenly-spaced meets per year, but you can sign up for/peak for whatever meets you want to do. But it is expected that you will compete or at the very least do mock meets several times per year.