Fox Lightweight Powerlifting

[MatthewIFox]

I'm Matthew Fox, I'm a 22 year old lightweight powerlifter. I walk around 140 lbs. I have lifted in NASA and USAPL meets. I will keep this top post with my body weight, maxes and goals. I keep track of powerlifting maxes along other various ones from time to time. I am in hopes that posting my log to a forum will help my consistency. Questions, suggestions and comments are more then welcome!

Overall Goal- Qualify for the 2015 Arnold's Fesival Starting Strength Raw Pro Challenge.
To qualify I will need to lift a 405 Wilks total at USAPL Raw Nationals in July 2014.

Individual lift goals for July 2014 at 135ish I am not looking to win a weight class, just lift at my strongest weight for the highest Wilks total.

Squat- 175 Kilos 385.8 lbs
Bench- 125 Kilos 275.6 lbs
Deadlift- 182.5 Kilos 402.3 lbs
Total- 482.5 Kilos 1062.9 lbs

Current maxes- all of these are gym maxes as I haven't been to a meet since the summer of 2012.

Big Three Maxes- Raw belt and knee sleeves
Squat 365 x 3 375 x 1
Bench 260 x 3 275 x 1
Deadlift 350 x 3 it is going up every week with my current program.

Other Maxes-
Front Squat- 285 x 3
Close grip bench- 245 x 3
Power clean- x 3 max to come soon

[MatthewIFox]

Sunday- 12/29/13
Front squat 245x3, PR! 285x3, 245 3x3
Close Grip Bench 225x3, 245x3
My front squat took all of my energy I went lighter on my bench and didn't do any accessories because I was just burnt out.

Monday 12/30/13
Deadlift 315x3, PR 355x3, 315 3x3
light abs
No accessories legs my back was fried from front squat the day before. I kind of forgot about doing upper back/bi accessories oops.

Wednesday 1/1/14
325x3 350x3 325 3x3
Abs

Thursday 1/2/14
Bench 225x3, 250x3, 230 3x3 all sets competition style
2x12 db flyes and tri presses

Friday 1/3/14
Will be edited and added.

[elVarouza]

Hey, nice to see a new log. I'm also training for raw nats in July, will be in the 105kg class. What weight class are you planning to lift in?

[MatthewIFox]

Hey, nice to see a new log. I'm also training for raw nats in July, will be in the 105kg class. What weight class are you planning to lift in?

Thanks and good luck! I plan on lifting in the 66kg class, but I will weigh in light I don't fill out 145 very well yet.

[MatthewIFox]

1/5/14 Sunday
Morning weight 138 lbs
Very happy with the days workout. I stayed with the same weight on front squat due to it being so difficult last week. I went up on close grip bench. All in all I felt very good through out my work out and will go up on both lifts by 5 lbs next week.

Front Squat
225 x 3
245 x 3
285 x 3 This felt really easy. Last week was the first time I had hit 285 for a triple, but felt dizzy on the set. I should have gone up to 290.
245 x 3 x 3

Close Grip Bench
225 x 3
PR 250 x 3 This did not feel very strong, but I had a random spotter to lift off for me and had to ask them not to touch the bar mid press. Still happy with a PR.
225 x 3 x 3

Right leg only lunges 2 x 12 45 lbs (Tore ACL in HS still not the same size as my left.)
DB flyes 2 x 12
Tri Presses 2x12
Abs Medium difficulty

[Sean Herbison]

Good to have you here. Your front squat, especially, is impressive for your weight.

[MatthewIFox]

Thanks, I just added front squat to my work outs regularly a couple months ago and it really seems to be paying off. I'm glad I've finally found a supportive forum.

[Sean Herbison]

Thanks, I just added front squat to my work outs regularly a couple months ago and it really seems to be paying off. I'm glad I've finally found a supportive forum.

I've got them in my workouts too. Just don't tell Rip.

[MatthewIFox]

1/6/14 Monday
Today's workout didn't go as planned. With the huge cold front that came in the temp got down around 0. The gym heater couldn't handle the extreme so I had to work out in 40 degrees with, not very ideal.

Deadlift
315x3
355x2

Military Press
RDLS
Light abs
Curls

[MatthewIFox]

1/8/14

Today's work out when much better then I had anticipated. I've got a slight cold and my sleep schedule is quite off. I still got in and did what I needed to do so I'm excited and grateful.

Squat
325 x 3
355 x 3
325 3 x 3
Cool down and difficult abs.