Hows everyone coming along on the goals? I am close to my OHP goal of 350 (got 325) and will be getting that nationals qualification soon! First in a high level comp is reaching but I will bust my ass when I get there.
Lets get some updates!
Sure:
I'm using this year to get back into full 3 lift meet competition after a couple of years of doing bench only, local meets and not competing at all because of school.
Right now I'm shooting for a full meet later this spring, but I've recently had some health problems I have to get straight and work scheduling before I know 100% for sure if I'm doing it. I'm also looking at a full meet in the fall. My goal is to total ELITE@SHW if everything goes as planned and I get my shit straight. If I don't do it this year, I will next year--all I need is 800, 600, 600 . I might do one raw bench contest too, I just don't know yet.
I did my first full meet in a long time last month. It went good, not as good as I'd like, but it was still good.
I went: squat: 605 (super easy), 690 (easy too), 775 (missed, shoe collapsed, rolled my ankle, bailed)
bench: 455 (easy), 515 (got out of my groove for some reason), 515 (good lift)
deadlift 455 (easy), 500, 545 (just missed locking)
total: 1705 @ SHW in single ply gear.
In retrospect I opened too light with all of my weights in this meet because I was nervous about the gear (I've done way more competitions RAW than I have in gear) and just keeping things together. Most of all I was able to spend the day going through a full meet without my diabetes getting in the way. My glucose levels stayed pretty much stable, and didn't divebomb, forcing me to pull out, which in all honesty, I was afraid might happen.
I'm looking at a meet in November where I hope to go 780, 585, 585 (1900 to 1950 total) in single ply gear or so. We'll see how things go with work this summer. If I don't make the meet this fall, I'll probably do one in Feb or so next spring. It depends on the schedule.
I also NEED to get my shit together so I can credential for ABVP-Avian boards so I can take the test next year and I've got two more papers and a research project to get published so I can start credentialing for ACZM boards and be ready to take that test in 2 years. Combine that with the 5 papers sitting on my desk I haven't got done yet, I really, really need to spend some time this year reading and writing and not goofing off on message boards.
Yeah right..... I've been buried with work. I've at least got outlines nad literature pulled for the articles, but nothing submitted for publication as of yet. Hopefully I'll fix that soon enough.