Ha! That's pretty awesome. Waltzing into elite level gym and busting up their deadlift record.

It's just insane that cha's raw deadlift was already so close to what he needed to set a suited record. The guys at that gym must be 'mirin hard.

I don't get it. Why do you need 1881 to qualify for the nationals when at your age-group the records don't even come close to amounting to that number?

Lol wow. I wish you video'ed this.

I will have the Nemisis 242 DL white board spot after my next meet. Its 622 now. I have zero chance at getting squat or bench because Priest did at least one meet at 242 and those numbers are ridiculous ( >700 bench and >900 squat).



As far as I can tell, its because they dont have masters division for UPA nationals like they do for USPA.

lol, someone at the gym said the same thing

I rewatched the 685 video. I'm going to call that a paused DL, lol.

If we're going to label it, it's more of a seizure deadlift imo.

If you ever pull 685 and it looks like that, you can label it what you want.

Lollllllllllllllllllllll

Haven't watched the video, but that is a monster DL. Hope you do well at the upcoming meet.

I think this shows 2 things:
1. Cha is strong as hell.
2. Equipment doesn't help with DL all that much due to the nature of the lift and euipment.

I thought we were friends.

Hahaha the hottest of fire

I am very glad Cha went with finding a huge overlarge image rather than just typing those words out.

I didnt even consider how long that would take to load the page. Its too late to edit that post now too.

Ehh, it's not a big deal in that regard, just kind of funny.

The image was handy. It was easier to copy/paste the image location than typing it.

5/1

squat
55x10
145x5
235x5

put on briefs
325x3
375x2
415x1

put on suit
505x1
575x1
625x1
660x1 PR





GHR
15
+ 25 lbs x 15

Beast!

thanks!

5/3

bench
45x15
145x10x2
185x6
225x3
275x2
315x1

put on Katana
405x1 off two boards
445x1 off chest - fast and solid.

The plan was to find a weight I can touch in my two ply shirt.
put on Rage X
555xf - the bar stopped ~3" above my chest
585xf - the bar stopped ~1" above my chest, then I started to dump the bar forward. The spotters grabbed it at that point.

Then the left side of my low back spasm-ed. That lasted about 10 minutes before getting better. I rolled the **** out of my glutes after that and it helped. Then I put Biofreeze all over it and spent 10 minutes on the inversion table when I got home. It felt fine after that. I can feel a little stiffness in it now, but I think it will be fine.

Priest said I'm doing it wrong on the descent. I need to keep my elbows out until the bar wont go any lower, then start bringing my elbows in. I start bringing my elbows in too soon, which loads up the shirt weird, so once I get my elbows in so far, they cant go in any more and the bar still isnt to my chest. Its going to take a lot of practice and breaking in the shirt a lot more before I can use it for anything besides board pressing.

I'll be using my single ply Katana for the May meet. I'm actually kind of relieved because I have a lot of confidence in using that shirt and none in using the Rage X.

The plan is to open the 5/16 meet at 452, then ~485 (which I should get without too much trouble), then go to somewhere between 502 - 518, depending how 485 goes. Priest says he thinks I can bench 518 in my single ply shirt if I get everything right. The UPA equipped bench record for my age/weight is only 402, so I am sure I will crush that with my opener.

face pulls
140x15x2

Sorry to hear about the spasm. That stuff sucks. Hope it recovered well though!

Be safe

I feel good today, so I dont think its anything to worry about.

The spotters I have are excellent. I dont envision anything like that being able to happen with my team spotting.