I'm sure you could break a few masters records.
I'm sure you could break a few masters records.
I like doing high rep deads every so often when I get a bug up my butt. But I will do only high rep deads, no other dead work once per week and keep it going until I'm completely worn out and/or have set a new PR. It doesn't help my one rep max but does give me that 'satisfied' feeling. They are also very hard on your recovery and why I am a big fan of deads every 14 days when they become nearly intolerable, which for me is when they start impacting my other lifts.
USPA seems pretty active in The People's Rainbow Republic of Kalifornia. Here's their state records: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...1E&output=html
I seemed to have missed these guys entirely. Thanks. I see some meets coming up in January here in downtown LA to watch and get acclimated to. I have a singlet to buy and maybe a better belt. In the words of the late great Roy Schieder, "Gonna need a bigger belt."
Weight: 252.5
5 minute warmup on the bike.
Standing Overhead Press: 140, 4 sets of 2 reps.
Barbell Row: 240, 4 sets of 2.
Claw Grip: 227, 2 sets of 5 PR!
So getting serious about entering a meet had me searching the site here for a peaking and tapering plan for a meet in Santa Barbara this Spring. As I was doing this I came across a post I had made to Rip a couple years ago about the 8 week cycles I am doing now. He told me then, and I forgot, that the 8 week plan was for olympic lifting rather than powerlifting. So I am re-thinking my programming now. Probably a competition oriented 5/3/1 template with 8 week PR attempts.
I have the 5/3/1 for Powerlifting ebook, here is the template...
Now I know I will get a ton of question as to why there is a switch of weeks 1 and 2.
The biggest reason is that it allows you to take singles on the two heaviest weeks and
have a week off in between them (this will be shown in the book). But here is how it is
set up:
Week 1 – 3x3 + heavy singles
Week 2 – 3x5
Week 3 – 5/3/1 + heavy singles
Week 4 – 3x5, deload
So with the above example, we now see that the 4 week program is waved like this:
Week 1 – Heavy
Week 2 – Medium
Week 3 – Heavy
Week 4 – Light
Thanks for that. I have Wendler's book in hard copy and didn't recognize that bit of information. I just pulled it off my bookshelf at home and sure enough, not there. Interesting that his ebook had that but not the print version.