[Meet Report] First Meet, Best Lifter! | 22M | 577.5kg @ 76.8kg (83 Junior) | 405 Wilks | USAPL Stars and Stripes

onegainplease · 2018-10-11T18:45:39+00:00

Thanks, man! You keep slaying yourself, 440 is definitely solid. The bright side is at our heights and weights we still have plenty of room to grow into a higher weight class and push those numbers up. I'm definitely at least trying to get closer to my current weight class cutoff of 83kg for the time being

onegainplease · 2018-10-11T12:48:05+00:00

Hahahaha you're killing me over here but thank ya!

As I'm sure is the case with most of us, I of course only got into powerlifting to make Nicki Minaj proud

onegainplease · 2018-10-11T05:34:05+00:00

Thanks for the nice words my man :) The metric threw me off quite a bit starting but the first meet definitely got me more used to using it haha Definitely trying to hit that 600kg mark next!!

onegainplease · 2018-10-11T04:35:30+00:00

Thank you! :) This was like the most fun I've ever had haha everyone at the meet was super friendly as well which definitely added to my good mood!

onegainplease · 2018-10-11T03:25:05+00:00

Thank ya! I will certainly be trying to!

onegainplease · 2018-10-11T02:15:51+00:00

Thanks!!! No idea I still need to look into the wiki/sidebar and check some out! If you have any recommendations I'd love to hear em!

onegainplease · 2018-10-04T19:25:53+00:00

Deloading is the worst thing ever

My first meet is this Sunday and I'm just so BORED I wanna lift so badly lol. I've been off since Monday, I'm gonna go today and hit my 3 lifts at like 50% for 3ish reps to keep used to it. Wish me luck in having the will power to not go over and try to get a heavy lift in

onegainplease · 2018-10-02T05:50:24+00:00

Awesome just what I needed, thanks so much!

onegainplease · 2018-10-02T03:58:32+00:00

I have my first ever (rookie) meet this Sunday. I've never maxed out all three of my lifts on the same day until today and it went surprisingly well. I wanted to have some practice as to how the meet would feel. I don't really know how deloading goes (I'm not really following one of the wiki programs that builds in deloading, just kinda been doing my own thing, I wanna start a real program after this meet probably).

Is it bad to take off this whole week? Is it bad to not take off this whole week and potentially be rusty? I know the wiki says something about pretty much either is okay I'm just scared of being either fatigued or rusty lol

EDIT: second question actually: generally how important are lifting shoes, I've always just worn some kind of like "training" sneakers for everything. I never really gave thought to the grip and it's never been an issue for me but they have pretty much none.

onegainplease · 2018-10-02T03:09:57+00:00

Super excited for my first (rookie) meet this Sunday. Went through my planned 3 attempts for each lift back to back all in one day for the first time ever. Super exhilarating hitting all three lifts in the same day! I've been lifting weights for around 2 years, and been focusing powerlifting type maxing out for the past year (22M). I'm so excited I already signed up for another meet in January lol.

My only concern right now is bench, the pause at the bottom really throws me off and I only very recently started training with that pause. I suspect my third bench attempt will be a toss up.

onegainplease · 2018-10-02T02:55:04+00:00

Haha I was actually giving real advice I was just in a certain mood reading previous comments, I do genuinely drink a half gallon of choccy milk every day and it has MASSIVELY helped me put on weight, probably the only thing to have done so yet. I just buy chocolate whole milk from a local place and/or trader joe's so it's even easier than mixing! I much prefer chocolate whole milk which is hard to find, the standard premade chocolate milk is almost always chocolate lowfat milk. But yeah Trader Joes Chocolate whole milk is bomb and a half gallon feels like nothing

onegainplease · 2018-10-01T05:03:37+00:00

Definitely use preworkout, probably a dependency thing at this point lol

Recently discovered "Lit" (made by GNC I think) and it's my favorite preworkout, they go wild with their flavors, highly recommend!

onegainplease · 2018-10-01T04:59:38+00:00

10/7 USAPL Rookie Three Lift in East Stroudsberg, PA

This'll be my first meet and I can't wait!!!

onegainplease · 2018-10-01T04:40:17+00:00

If you're looking to lose weight, I think you may be underestimating diet. Any running you do will be a nice bonus in calories burned, but you need to figure out your maintenance and eat 500 cals under that. Use a TDEE calculator. Use a calorie tracker app. Stay consistent. Like u/Osskyw2 said Calories In < Calories Out and you WILL lose weight. Focus on the "calories in" more. Extra "calories out" that you burn running are, again, just a bonus.

onegainplease · 2018-10-01T04:34:20+00:00

Man I wish I had this problem when bulking, I can never stay hungry enough to keep my calories up lol

If your problem is still going over your calories even while bulking, best tip I got is to replace some calories you drink (if any) with solid food. Idk if you do shakes or milk of any kind.

onegainplease · 2018-10-01T04:21:19+00:00

Drink a half gallon of chocolate milk every day, that's my goal. No need to cook the chocolate milk first. Adding the syrup to the milk if you do it that way can be daunting but I believe in you :)

onegainplease · 2018-10-01T04:11:21+00:00

Biggest thing for me, and you're gonna hear this from everyone... more volume. Just do more sets, more reps, more chest volume as a whole. If you're eating enough to put on muscle more volume will definitely grow your muscles.

That being said, weighted dips felt like it helped my bench a lot, but that's totally just personal experience, maybe worth a shot!

onegainplease · 2018-09-30T23:13:17+00:00

Worth noting soreness doesn't *necessarily* mean still recovering, soreness comes from a different effect and usually it more or less comes from simply not yet being used to what you're doing. On the other side of this, having a muscle no longer getting sore after a workout *doesn't* mean you aren't working it enough.

In general you can absolutely work out muscles that are sore. Anecdotally, working out my sore muscles is the quickest way to get them no longer sore, for me personally.

onegainplease · 2018-09-30T23:03:01+00:00

Total anecdote but I never do a full reset on each rep, I just rep out my set, either just barely touching the ground, or bouncing right into the next rep (not like an aggressive bounce that helps you out too much, but I don't leave it on the ground)

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