Nikhil's Competitive Log

[NikhilT]

"Competitive" is a stretch, but here we go.

A bit about me - I'm a 24 year old male, 5'3", ~164 lbs, I work and live in Manhattan, and I train at the South Brooklyn Weightlifting Club. I've competed twice to date.

Meet one: RPS Insurrextion III on November 15th, 2014. A little writeup here but the summary is I went 8/9, 345/205/405 = 955 @ 162 lbs. I missed a 225 lbs bench.

Meet two: USAPL American Open 2014 on December 13th, 2014. I went (in KG) 152.5 / 95 /185 = 432.5 @ 74.47. In pounds, that's 335.5/209/407 = 951.5 @ 163.8 lbs. Lower total, two meet PRs. Meh. I missed a 160KG (352 lbs) squat because my nerves got the best of me, didn't get tight enough before the descent and essentially gave up halfway through the rep. I missed a 100KG (220 lbs) bench because I should be removed from the gene pool. More accurately, I just had a crappy bar path and stalled a few inches off the chest and too low. I've hit it in the gym before, but it was a LONG grind. Not my best effort here. But hitting a deadlift PR on a stiff bar was nice.

Jordan Feigenbaum has been doing my programming for about 5.5 months and nutrition about 2.5 months now. I'll be continuing to work with him as long as 1) I can afford it and 2) I'm seeing progress.

I plan on moving down a weight class and competing in April in a USAPL meet at 66 KG (145 lbs). Given that about 3.5 years ago I was roughly 260 lbs of fat, this'll be a nice win.

[NikhilT]

Monday, December 15th, 2014.
Bodyweight: 165.0 lbs

Competition Squat
275 x 3 @ 8, 295 x 3 @ 9

Competition Bench
165 x 3, 175 x 3, 185 x 3 @ 8.5, called it here.

2ct Paused Bench
165 x 5 @ 9

Notes:
Not logging E1RMs aside from in a spreadsheet this week. I'm happy to be able to hit weights pretty close to my openers 2 days out from a meet, I don't feel TOO beat up.

[NikhilT]

Tuesday, December 16th, 2014
Bodyweight: 164.2 lbs

DB Rows
50 x 10, 55 x 43 in 10 minutes

Ab Wheel from knees
67 reps x BW in 10 minutes

HIIT
Rower intervals
0:20 on, 1:40 off, 6 rounds at resistance 6

Stretching and foam rolling.

[Dwayne_KONG_Wint]

Did I meet you this weekend?

[NikhilT]

Did I meet you this weekend?

Did you have dinner with a short brown person on Saturday?

[Dwayne_KONG_Wint]

Yes and he told me about the USAPL meet in April at SBWC. Did you have dinner with a large black person on Saturday?

[NikhilT]

Yes and he told me about the USAPL meet in April at SBWC. Did you have dinner with a large black person on Saturday?

I sure did, and I recall he was an ice cream aficionado.

Great to put a SS account to the face. It was awesome to meet you, I've on-and-off read your log previously actually.

[Rezart Erindi]

Is this the final script of "When Nik met Dwayne"?

[Vince Cifani]

"Competitive" is a stretch, but here we go.

A bit about me - I'm a 24 year old male, 5'3", ~164 lbs, I work and live in Manhattan, and I train at the South Brooklyn Weightlifting Club. I've competed twice to date.

Meet one: RPS Insurrextion III on November 15th, 2014. A little writeup here but the summary is I went 8/9, 345/205/405 = 955 @ 162 lbs. I missed a 225 lbs bench.

Meet two: USAPL American Open 2014 on December 13th, 2014. I went (in KG) 152.5 / 95 /185 = 432.5 @ 74.47. In pounds, that's 335.5/209/407 = 951.5 @ 163.8 lbs. Lower total, two meet PRs. Meh. I missed a 160KG (352 lbs) squat because my nerves got the best of me, didn't get tight enough before the descent and essentially gave up halfway through the rep. I missed a 100KG (220 lbs) bench because I should be removed from the gene pool. More accurately, I just had a crappy bar path and stalled a few inches off the chest and too low. I've hit it in the gym before, but it was a LONG grind. Not my best effort here. But hitting a deadlift PR on a stiff bar was nice.

Jordan Feigenbaum has been doing my programming for about 5.5 months and nutrition about 2.5 months now. I'll be continuing to work with him as long as 1) I can afford it and 2) I'm seeing progress.

I plan on moving down a weight class and competing in April in a USAPL meet at 66 KG (145 lbs). Given that about 3.5 years ago I was roughly 260 lbs of fat, this'll be a nice win.

Hey, Nikhil. I'm looking forward to following your log. It's pretty humbling doing the American Open as your second meet. I give you lots of credit for that.

Good luck with your training.

[NikhilT]

Thursday, December 18th, 2014
Bodyweight: ??

Competition Deadlifts
355 x 3 @ 8
365 x 1 @ ow my lower back.

Close Grip Bench Press
165 x 5 @ 8
175 x 5 @ 8.5
185 x 1 @ nope I kept sliding around.

Front Squat
185 x 5

Press
95 x 5 @ 7.5
115 x 3 @ 9

Notes:
Totally all over the place today. I have some leftover ab DOMS from Tuesday's GPP. However, the real reason today sucked is basically that Tuesday night I was forced to evacuate my apartment because raw sewage starting flowing up from my toilet into my bathroom floor. Human shit and dead roaches. Hooray. My building super was fired (which I found out on Tuesday night), and my landlord isn't picking up his phone. I've been staying with my parents while I proceed to get the city to send over an inspector to declare my place uninhabitable so my lease breaks.

Unfortunately this means I can't travel to Brooklyn to train on weekdays, BUT my parents live 5 minutes from Bev Francis Powerhouse, where I trained today. I've just been crazy stressed with all this and it's definitely killing my recovery. Hopefully in a day or two I'll get some concrete answers and things will settle down. Mostly I just need to figure out the whole where-do-I-live thing.

Is this the final script of "When Nik met Dwayne"?

I hope so. We had a delicious meal together, and it was love at first bite (my wordplay game is off the charts).

Hey, Nikhil. I'm looking forward to following your log. It's pretty humbling doing the American Open as your second meet. I give you lots of credit for that.

Good luck with your training.

Thanks Vince. To be honest, I went to the AO mostly because I felt that being around strong lifters would be motivating and kick my ass into shape a bit. And it did - my desire to push myself has definitely been revitalized.