Syndr0m's Chesticle Admiration Thread
04-19-2019
, 04:44 PM
04-21-2019
, 09:25 PM
Well, in hindsight I've been a dumbass. I did the exact opposite of what I planned to do and it backfired.
In the moment I was feeling so good I overshot my 3rd attempt squat by so much I failed miserably, then also failed my 3rd bench attempt, and then got conservative with my deadlift leaving too much in the tank. Hit 175/110/220 for a 505kg total which is not great because it's the exact same I hit during my test day except I felt a whole lot better and was without doubt good for more.
If I would've stuck with the original plan (lower squat higher deadlift) I might have had an extra 17kg.
I am extremely surprised with the speed and ease of all my 2nd attempts, though. This makes me wonder if I perhaps chose my openers too light and my jumps too big.
The good news is I won my weight class. The bad news is I was the only contestant in that weight class (100+) that did all three lifts. I weighed in at 101.3kg (223lbs).
A meet is way longer and more exhausting than I imagined. I think we lifted from 3PM to almost 9PM with about 40 contestants.
It was a lot more competitive than I thought, I thought it would've been random gym bros but they were all fairly serious lifters. All low bar squatters too except for maybe 3 people which kinda made me cringe cause I always associate Chinese squats with beautiful, deep, graceful, elite, perfect form hbbs. Nope, all wider stance, questionably parallel, low bar squat faces.
My squat was somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. My bench was a joke compared to everyone else. My deadlift was at the higher end.
The judging was a bit of a joke done by inexperienced people, so almost everybody got white lights despite many mistakes. But still, a way better event than expected.
Picture with some training buddies.
Fatty at the bottom is a 28yr old South African record holder who casually pulled 305kg (673) with lots of speed and then after the event did a quick 250x15 (551) for fun.
Here you get a better view of the size of the guy.
Videos (with some sound problems):
Squat 160 175 190fail (353 386 419fail)
Bench 100 110 120fail (220 243 265fail)
Deadlift 190 205 220 (419 452 485)
Front view of that last deadlift:
In the moment I was feeling so good I overshot my 3rd attempt squat by so much I failed miserably, then also failed my 3rd bench attempt, and then got conservative with my deadlift leaving too much in the tank. Hit 175/110/220 for a 505kg total which is not great because it's the exact same I hit during my test day except I felt a whole lot better and was without doubt good for more.
If I would've stuck with the original plan (lower squat higher deadlift) I might have had an extra 17kg.
I am extremely surprised with the speed and ease of all my 2nd attempts, though. This makes me wonder if I perhaps chose my openers too light and my jumps too big.
The good news is I won my weight class. The bad news is I was the only contestant in that weight class (100+) that did all three lifts. I weighed in at 101.3kg (223lbs).
A meet is way longer and more exhausting than I imagined. I think we lifted from 3PM to almost 9PM with about 40 contestants.
It was a lot more competitive than I thought, I thought it would've been random gym bros but they were all fairly serious lifters. All low bar squatters too except for maybe 3 people which kinda made me cringe cause I always associate Chinese squats with beautiful, deep, graceful, elite, perfect form hbbs. Nope, all wider stance, questionably parallel, low bar squat faces.
My squat was somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. My bench was a joke compared to everyone else. My deadlift was at the higher end.
The judging was a bit of a joke done by inexperienced people, so almost everybody got white lights despite many mistakes. But still, a way better event than expected.
Picture with some training buddies.
Fatty at the bottom is a 28yr old South African record holder who casually pulled 305kg (673) with lots of speed and then after the event did a quick 250x15 (551) for fun.
Here you get a better view of the size of the guy.
Videos (with some sound problems):
Squat 160 175 190fail (353 386 419fail)
Bench 100 110 120fail (220 243 265fail)
Deadlift 190 205 220 (419 452 485)
Front view of that last deadlift:
Last edited by Syndr0m; 04-21-2019 at 09:33 PM.
04-22-2019
, 08:38 PM
Here's the guy pulling 673 raw as if it's a warmup.
For comparison:
He was complaining a lot about my bench grip, said the way I grab the bar makes zero sense and is very inefficient because I can't "pull the bar apart". Never really realized how weird it looks, I swear I thought I saw it explained like this in the SS book years back and just got used to it. It's basically a thumbless grip with the thumb still around. Thoughts?
He also say my deadlift looked great and that if I were to cut depth to parallel I could probably squat 200kg quite soon based on the speed of my 175.
Is there where I switch to lbbs? To be continued
For comparison:
He was complaining a lot about my bench grip, said the way I grab the bar makes zero sense and is very inefficient because I can't "pull the bar apart". Never really realized how weird it looks, I swear I thought I saw it explained like this in the SS book years back and just got used to it. It's basically a thumbless grip with the thumb still around. Thoughts?
He also say my deadlift looked great and that if I were to cut depth to parallel I could probably squat 200kg quite soon based on the speed of my 175.
Is there where I switch to lbbs? To be continued
04-30-2019
, 12:44 AM
04-30-2019
, 02:37 AM
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Congrats on doing the meet! fwiw, I have never gone 9/9, and if I did, I would wonder how much more I could have done. You did well, especially considering it was your 1st meet and on short notice.
yeah, your bench & squat could use some work. Please forget whatever you learned in SS. Ask me for more form critique if you are interested in improving your powerlifts.
squats - You do not need to rack the bar lower in order to widen your stance and cut your depth a bit. The way you squat now is hard on your knees because your knees shoot forward in the bottom - that puts a lot of stress on them. I think a wider stance would be very good for you.
yeah, your bench & squat could use some work. Please forget whatever you learned in SS. Ask me for more form critique if you are interested in improving your powerlifts.
squats - You do not need to rack the bar lower in order to widen your stance and cut your depth a bit. The way you squat now is hard on your knees because your knees shoot forward in the bottom - that puts a lot of stress on them. I think a wider stance would be very good for you.
I will definitely work on my squat, starting with removing the excessive bounce. Although I want my focus to stay on weightlifting, so I do everything in function of that. Don't really mind my weak bench. Thanks again for your help!
I am very happy to hear you get it now and it's been helpful. I ended up marrying the girl we talked about back then despite many red flags. Things continue to improve a lot over time. Very happy. It was mostly the indecision and doubt that made me go crazy. Once I made my choice and fully committed to it, everything got a lot easier.
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