Well, I had to tell everyone so I’m also posting here. I finally got 365 pounds in a paused one-rep max on the bench press. Raw, of course. With that, I should be able to secure a few Texas state powerlifting records in July at the APF meet in Vidor, TX. I imagine I will be good for well over 400 with a bench shirt on by then. The current record in my weight class and age group is only 407 so I think I should definitely have it. I’ve been keeping up with my training logs, so you can see that the strenth surge started a few months back with diet change and protein uptake. Plus, it was probably just “time” since I had been stuck at 300 for so long. I really feel that the slow-digesting casein protein at nighttime had a lot to do with breaking the plateau I had been on since losing all that weight last year. Right now, I seem to be stuck at a max of 365, but it could just be my body trying to catch up. I intend to really kick into gear come June/July in preparation for that powerlifting meet. Should be fun!
July 7th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
It’s June and July, how did it go? I had a breakthrough myself this summer and a nice one, 71 miles in 3:10 followed 2 weeks later by 100 miles in 5:30 with 2 15 minute breaks to reload liquids and food.
Funny how I sports are different! I put on muscle mass then have to lean out more to keep the weight down.
July 7th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
Jay! How’s it going? The meet won’t be until July 27, but I’m on track for getting that record I think. Right now I’m at about a 385 bench. Still on ly 194 lbs, so no worries about having to lose to stay in the 198s (so far).
Nice job on the endurance biking! I was going to do that triathlon, but I think since my PLing is going so well, I’ll just stick to the annual half-marathon to make sure I don’t get too far out of cardio shape. ;-)