Good luck cha! Also, looking forward to the trip report.

If the weigh in was two hours before the meet, would you eat any differently?

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Typically, if I was close to making weight at 242, I would eat differently if the weigh in was 2 hours out instead of 24. This meet was a bit different. The only thing that was affected by my weight at the time of weigh in was my Glossbrenner score, which was probably not a lot different if I weighed 248 vs 242.

Meet cliff notes:

squat: 672 3 whites/711 3 whites/755 miss at bottom

bench: 551 smoke show/ 578 3 whites / 606 near miss (left elbow locked, right didnt quite get there)

DL: 600 3 whites / 644 3 whites / 672 barely broke the floor

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TCBB meet 12/1 - all male lifters compete vs all other male lifters, regardless of age, weight, gear or not, tested or not, etc. Its a very unique meet. I really like it and I wish more meet directors would do this so there would be better competition for everyone.

People came here from all over the place. We had ND lifters, Omaha/Council Bluffs IA lifters and Winnepeg lifters competing. I dont know the full results yet. They announced top 3 and I did not make it.

This meet had a lot of great lifters, especially in my flight. One guy, Jason Ehlert, a great lifter from ND, squatted 1102 and DLed 804. I think he was probably 308, but I didnt notice exactly what he weighed. I probably beat him because he is heavier and younger than me and he has a shoulder issue so I think he only benched about 135.

A great USAPL lifter decided to do this meet. James Vang, a 148 lb national champ in single ply, decided to do this meet raw just for fun. He won best lifter going 540/303/584. I knew ahead of time that he would win. This guy rarely misses a lift, and all he had to do was hit his openers to win.

I also knew the guy who took 2nd was going to take 2nd. Chad Schroeder, a 220 raw guy, put up 650/4??/722 for a total in the low 1800s, going 9/9. Great lifter.

The guy who finished 3rd surprised me a little. He was a guy I dont know well who is bigger and younger than me and his total didnt seem like it was massive. He also lifted raw. I am anxious to see the full results to see how close I was to taking 3rd.

I weighed in at 248.7 Friday morning. After breakfast on Saturday before the meet I weighed 257. That's a one day weight gain PR, lol.

Squats: I opened with 672. It went up pretty easy. Three white lights.


711 was close to perfect. This was a 5.5 lb meet PR.

Another view of this. Look at the guy calling my depth, lol. Fred.


755 miss. This didnt feel right on the way down and once I got to depth, I felt like I had nothing to come up. I was somehow out of position, but I'm not exactly sure what it was. Side note, I told Fred I wanted 750. He told the table 755. I didnt notice this until I was on the platform. It probably didnt matter.



bench: I opened with 551. I pulled the collar on my SDP up very high and that allowed me to touch it without much difficulty. This was a good decision. 28 lb meet PR.


578 went pretty fast as well. This is a 55 lb meet PR.


606 - near miss. 600 is the American record for 275, 50-54 years old. I have had my eye on 606. This is one of the reasons I decided to bulk up and weigh in over 242. I have a feeling that hitting this would have put me in 3rd place, but I dont know that for sure yet. dammit.

Two years ago at this same meet, I missed my 2nd and 3rd bench attempts of 540 in my size 52 (too tight) Rage X. I got my left arm locked and couldnt lock the right arm back then. I finished in 4th place. Locking out 540 would have got me 3rd. The field was much tougher this year than it was back then.


DL: 600 good, yawn.


644 got a little forward about halfway up, but wasnt too hard.


I didnt know what to do for my 3rd attempt at this point. I could not total 2000 and I had no idea where I stood among the other lifters. I decided 672 was something I had a chance at if I was able to use good form. blah. I couldnt quite get set up properly, rounded my back a little and dumped it forward.



Total: 1934.6, a 33 lb PR. I am happy about that. I am bummed out about missing the 606 bench and I wish I would have known what I needed to DL to get 3rd place. I am anxious to find out. My guess is I took 4th and the 606 bench would have got me 3rd.


I'm going to take a little time off now to rest. Friday I will be getting some injections to fix my SI joint and both of my superior tibiofibular joints (left and right legs). I'll do whatever my doc tells me to with regards to training after that. I plan to drop body weight back down to ~242 soon.

Very impressive, congrats. You smoked that last DL off the floor, I was surprised when it didn't go

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I'm pretty strong right off the floor, but I've been struggling lately between mid shin and just below the knees. On this one, I wasnt set up super tight so the weight got forward and the stress shifted to my lower back. When I am pulling well, I dont really feel my lower back at all.

It is crazy how fast your squats and bench press fly up. It is too bad your third deadlift got out in front. Congrats one the impressive numbers!

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The meet director told me I took 4th place, about 45 lbs out of 3rd. I would have needed to go 8/9 to take 3rd this time. Bittersweet. I am pretty happy to finish that high vs this competition, but I really wanted 3rd place.

Does the suit provide an assist up to mid shin and then it's all you from there? Looks like 672 should have been in the bank given how fast 644 was.

Great meet and TR!

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The suit only assists if you position yourself correctly. If you get in good position, it helps a little with pop off the floor. By the time it gets above the knees, with this particular suit, its all me. My lockout is super strong, so this kind of suit works well for me, when I get in good position off the floor. Some other suits help more with lockout.

The suit can pull you forward. If you get forward with the bar, like I did, it hurts more than helps. Many people get no help at all from a DL suit and some pull more raw than in a suit because its hard to stay back. I get a little assistance when I am pulling well. I did not pull that 672 well.

Congrats on weight PR and also other PRs

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12/7

I got a whole bunch of PRP injections in and around my SI, hips, left ITB, left knee and both of my superior tibiofibular joints. I am sore as hell today. The worst part is getting up out of a recliner or getting up off the toilet.

It was interesting to watch the ultrasound screen on the wall as the doc was guiding the needles into the proper areas. One thing of note was that my left MCL was loose again. It had come back after getting treated last year, but the day after WPC worlds, I twisted the knee and something felt loose in it ever since. I think this treatment will fix it. I just need to avoid doing stupid things.

Doc says that usually it takes about twice as long for the SI injections to feel better as compared with the neck injections I got last year. Hopefully I will be feeling better tomorrow. The results of this treatment should fix a lot of nagging problems I was having.

Interesting that the PRP does so much good for you. Keep us posted please.

yeah, my neck has been doing very well since the injections I got ~15 months ago. My left knee too, but I screwed it up a little by twisting it while trying to walk around some stuff in the hotel room after lifting at worlds - I'm pretty sure I loosened the MCL doing that a few weeks ago.

How the injections are done matters a LOT. My doc, along with only a handful of others, does a lot more work treating the blood (and/or stem cells) than almost all other docs who do this, and he uses ultrasound to inject into the exact areas where it will do the most good. Most docs who do this do not do either of these things. I think there are five or six in the country who do it this way.

I'm still sore this morning, but less so than yesterday. I think it will be a few days before this starts to feel better than before the injections.

Yea, that's exactly how mine were done, and I think I noted the process in my log at the time with the pics of the ultrasounds even. (We even did additional ultrasounds every couple weeks to check the healing) It appeared to be healing fantastic, until I actually attempted to compete again... then, not so much.

My ortho is Dr. Kremchek, who did his fellowship under Dr. James Andrews (who I'm sure you know, if not feel free to check his Wikipedia page), and is the team medical director for the Reds, Orthopedic consultant for the NFL, etc, etc... So I'm pretty confident based on who he is and the experience that I had with it. They wouldn't treat the athletes and names they do all the time, otherwise.

In any event, until there's some actual evidence that PRP does what it claims (which there isn't), I'll never do it again. And I did it twice, both times the end result was a surgery that I just probably should have done at the start.

Which is why I said it's interesting that is does so much good for you. Like I always tell everyone in the gym who asks me about chiro, cupping, prp, voodoo, witch doctoring, and the like... if it works for you, then it works, and keep on doing it.

Good to know. Is it possible that the sport you were doing caused you to stress the treated area a lot more than I have stressed my treated areas? I've been pretty careful with form in the gym. The only issue I had was when I got careless and twisted my knee outside of the gym.

Without a doubt, that's possible.

Your lifts are very inspiring! Though very unsuccessfully, I do try to imitate you...without the knee wraps or entourage of course.

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I really like both of these posts.

In my experience of 2 times having PRP, not as standalone procedure but in conjunction with surgeries (SLAP repair of shoulder, a couple anchors and Achilles rupture repair), healing process was slightly better than expected. Hard to tell if just the surgery itself, PRP helping or just me healing how I healed.

Would not have been covered by insurance as a standalone but was with the surgery. He also told me I couldn't take any anti-inflammatory (synthetic or natural) but could take the narcotic junk (didn't, hate that stuff).

That's cool that PRP is covered as part of the surgery now. My understanding is that it does help the healing process.

My doc basically told me never to take NSAIDs anymore, and he prescribed me the good stuff after both of the procedures he did on me. I never used them after the first procedure. I used them for one day after this last one.

I just saw my chiro. The other doc contacted him to tell him what was done and offered advice on what to do with me. He did quite a bit of ART on my hips and legs, but went easy on the SI area. When he pushed on that area, it felt like there was a big bruise there. He said that was to be expected after what was done on me. My legs, especially the left one, move better since getting the ART.

A couple things I am noticing since the procedure:

1 - I have way less noises (cracks, pops, etc.) coming from my legs now. For the past several years, my knees basically always cracked and popped when I would walk, get out of bed, get out of a chair, squat, etc.

2 - I have no foot pain. This is very apparent when I get out of bed. My doc said that the loose superior tibiofibular joints probably were related to the plantar fasciitis problems I've had over the past 10+ years. The foot pains have come and gone over the past 10 years. They have mostly been there, but not terrible, but have gone back and forth from being gone all the way to terrible quite a bit.

Hopefully both of these things are done forever. We'll see.