BDFPA Scottish Push/Pull 2012
Decided to go by public transport so woke up at 5am (about 5 hours sleep unfortunately) to get all kit together and catch the 7.30am bus. Got 7.30 bus to train and then took that for 4 stops. Total trip door to door was 2 hours and cost £13 return.
Thing was set up at a small gym called Boab's gym. Had given up on weighing in at 67.5kg a few weeks ago. Not sure why. Anyway so I weighed in at 71.5kg. About 11 lifters. People were very friendly and helpful. Mostly an older crowd (45 plus) with two other young ones like me. I'm a bit of klutz so was making a bit of a mess of the rules for my first few lifts. Didn't know about the one minute rule for lifting after the bar is loaded and kept forgetting to go tell referees my next lift.
Warming up with record holders was certainly fun! Started off with a light opening lift on both bench and deadlift as has been drilled into my head by Baldy, Talyn and JP amongst others (thanks!). So yeah started off with a 60kg bench that felt like a feather. For second lift went up to 70kg which also felt lighter than it should have so decided to go after my old touch and go record (which was 81.4kg) and asked for 82kg. Went up fairly well but don't think there was a huge amount left in the tank even though observers claimed there was (they always do though don't they?). Couldn't get any leg drive at all despite having figured it out for the home gym. Anyway beating the old touch and go record and adding 3kg to the paused bench record was excellent.
Deadlift warm up felt strangely heavy but then the opening lift of 120kg went up easily (albeit rather unbalanced ... i think the arms weren't symmetrical). Went for a safe 150kg for the second lift and this felt very light so I got all excited and went for what seemed like a foolish PR attempt at 176kg for the third lift (1 kg PR at a lower bw than before). No idea why (more forgiving bar? lighter weights than in gym? more adrenaline from having a crowd) but it went up pretty fast and left me rather wishing I had gone for 180kg ha ha ha as that's the qualifying amount for single lift deadlift in the 75kg raw men's category. That said 4kg is 8.8lb which is a lot and I suspect i might have missed it.
Anyway I got solid comp experience and added 1.6kg to my total which is now at 71.5kg as opposed to 74kg so a very good day at the office.
here are the lifts
Bench 60kg
no video as video guy had to become a loader
Bench 70kg
Bench 82kg (3kg paused PR, 0.6kg PR on the old touch and go record)
Deadlift 120kg
Deadlift 150kg
Deadlift 176kg (1kg PR and at few kg lower bw)
The power moobs had been the main reason i was cutting i think.
