So if we rank by Wilks where did you end up?

It would be a pretty sick club to have more than a handful higher than you.

The meet is an official APA sanctioned and run meet. Its an open entry one, so novices enter as well. All out of province refs.

I'm about 9th or 10th in Wilks, maybe lower. John just scored a 475 today (230-160-265 @74) and is in first. We have a couple of women at 400+.

Aidan is prob a bit more gun in mouth.gif than me tbh...

http://www.foxsports.com.au/rugby/li...8da359b04fa027

True story

Vids came through.

All lifts looking smooth as hell

Damn, you were right about crushing your last squat and bench reps

Nice lifts!

The DL miss, you were staring at the floor and were way out in front of it. Stay back and keep your chest up and you'll get that.

Nice work!

agree with Cha on last DL too.

More ****ing weight on the bar for squat and bench :-)

Yeah Quite a few technical things to work on. Kind of tempted to go back to conventional for a bit. Dunno...

Haha yeah... opportunities missed all over the show. The good news is I think I've found my mojo a little bit, got some new goals which should help me going forward.

Belated

No PR, tho?
That's odd.

U LIFT AND DRINK ALCOHOL!!

Nice lifts.

135 bench was a comp PR. It was that easy I'll count it as an ePR (like eV).
Cheers, man!

8th November:

Bench Press
90x5
90x5
90x5

Pull Ups
20x3
20x3
20x3

Also did cleans up to 90kgs. Decent fun little session to get back into it.

10th November:

So Im volunteering with school first VX just helping out with their off season strength coaching (not programming), so I did a light workout with the team on thursday am: squat up to 160x4 and then two sets of 140, and some overhead press. My press technique sucks and I am weak at it. Fun to share some knowledge though.

Cool. Any stand out freaks in team yet?

Do you have this problem? I've only had them for a year. Kinda disappointed about it considering the cost.

Syn: Do you deadlift in them?

No, pretty much all I do in them is squats

Some pretty sick verticals. I think I need to recalibrate my strength expectations, but a couple of underfed 16yo squatting 100+ for reps seems pretty solid.
Ive never seen that. A few at the gym had failed at one of the seams (I suspect because the thread gets nicked when people out them on and they eventually unravel).

Cool. You can be the Joe De Franco of Auckland.

ps. Fee free to send any new Tongan Thors our way.

We're getting a couple of Tongans in on scholarships - one lock who looks like an absolute beast and a halfback

Project 600: Week 1 13th November

Squat
140x6 4' rest
140x6 4' rest
140x6 4' rest
140x6 4' rest

Bench Press
85x7 4' rest
85x7 4' rest
85x7 4' rest
85x7 4' rest

Deadlift
160x6 4' rest
160x6 4' rest
160x6 4' rest

Pull Ups
10x6
10x6
10x6

EZ Bar Curls
20x8
20x8
20x8

So the goal is to really crush a 600+ total at 83kg next April at Auckland Championship. In the short term Im going to be looking at really controlling the rest periods and not letting it drift out too far like I often do, and get the overall amount of work done up without spending more time in the gym. Weekend session will be three lift day, i'll squat + accessory before work on tuesday and thursdays and find time to get in for bench work once a week. Swings on off days. Not quite sure how I'll handle the progression/programming yet, need to do some research.

I'll also be taking a closer eye on my food, basically I've been snacking way too much and drinking too much (not too excess, but a beer a day). Need to get protein levels up and really try to take a bit more control over things.

time to hit those 10s brah