Road to 2013 CPU Nationals - 105kg Junior

[BendtheBar]

Keep tearing it up.

[EliteDreams]

Big numbers what its about!

[Paradox]

Originally Posted by BendtheBar

Keep tearing it up.

Will do.

Originally Posted by EliteDreams

Big numbers what its about!

Agreed!

[Paradox]

I'm on my phone in the Vancouver airport, here's to hoping this post actually works.

Quick Nationals Write Up:

Got into Vancouver on the 18th at like 11pm, which is 3am body time for me. Promptly got to the hotel and passed out on a makeshift bed on the floor. It was NOT a good sleep.

On the 19th I spent the day eating, hydrating and filming teammates, as I was still under the 105s by like 2kg.

On the 20th, woke up at 530am, got breakfast at 6, went back to bed for another 2 hours or so. Got up, headed to the venue.

Weighed in at a monstrous 100kg (lol wtf howd I LOSE weight after eating all day?)

Squats:
warmed up to about 200kg. Felt verrryy loose. I could hit depth with a plate. Which NEVER happens for me.

opener: 210kg
absolute smoke show

second 225kg
buried it, smoked it, easy as fuck

now, I was here to win, so I put 237.5kg as my third, to up my record by 7.5kg. This was a VERY conservative attempt. I killed it easily...but called on depth. The judging here was BEYOND strict. You had to be four inches deep to get anything passed. Whatever, I was still only 5kg off my PB with the 225 and I was 30kg up on my only competitor

bench
warmed up to 120kg

opener: 127.5kg
fucking destroyed it. Red lights for ass up. Lol what???? There was no way. I didnt even use leg drive. Whatever again, i was here to win, so i took it again and let my legs dangle loose. Killed it. Went 137.5kg for a 300+ bench for the first time ever. Absolutely ate it for dinner. Wanted to go for 145 that day, but stupid first attempt fucked me. Lost a bit of a lead here as other guy benched 152 or something.

Deads
warmed up to 220kg in the back room

opener: 230kg
lolol joooooke. 245kg second for a 5kg meet PB. Also a joke and secured the win
for a third I had two options. Go for the total 105kg jr record or the deadlift and the total. So i did the latter and went 258kg. Absoltuely fucked killed it.

Overall, I think I could have gone 245, 145, 272.5, but instead I went 225, 137.5, 258. However, I added a national champ gold medal, a deadlift record and the total record to my squat record, so I guess I'm happy with it.

[MikeM]

Awesome results! Great meet. Talk about return for all your hard work.

Great stuff, Dave!

[Squatter]

You simply murdered that meet Dave. It seems we all second guess our weight selections, but ya know what, at the end of the day you leave a champ and know for a fact you will progress at the next meet. You certainly have a very bright future in powerlifting.

[markievicz]

Congrats on the great result at the meet Dave, some nice numbers on the day

[BendtheBar]

Congrats from MAB:

Congrats to Paradox

[ravimolasaria]

Simply amazing numbers ... Time to get that bench number up ...

[Paradox]

Originally Posted by MikeM

Awesome results! Great meet. Talk about return for all your hard work.

Great stuff, Dave!

I'm fairly pleased with what the work brought. I let my dedication slip towards the end, but for what I think is a good reason. Things will get back on track for a huge total in Russia.

Originally Posted by Squatter

You simply murdered that meet Dave. It seems we all second guess our weight selections, but ya know what, at the end of the day you leave a champ and know for a fact you will progress at the next meet. You certainly have a very bright future in powerlifting.

Thanks, Jim. That is a very good way to put it. One of these days I would really like to fight against a weight though!!

Originally Posted by markievicz

Congrats on the great result at the meet Dave, some nice numbers on the day

Thanks, markie. Now to chase a 650 then 700 total!

Originally Posted by ravimolasaria

Simply amazing numbers ... Time to get that bench number up ...

Thanks, Ravi. It's getting there slowly but surely. I really do feel 145kg would have gone up nicely today, which would have been very good for me. Hell, the 137.5kg IS very good for me.