Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Testing powerlfiting total

I decided to test how much I could total on the squat, bench press, and deadlift in the same day.

I hit a 295 squat and then a 315 squat with depth an inch or two below parallel.  315 was good form, but very hard, so I decided to stop.

I hit a 235 and then a 245 paused bench.  I was pretty happy with this.

I got a 375 deadlift and then missed 395.  This was disappointing, but my back feels good today, so I'm glad I didn't push this.  There is always next time.

So, I got a 935 total.  I think I would be good for 955 easy if I had rested the day before, paid more attention to my diet beforehand, and gotten a couple of good nights of sleep.  Probably 970 if I had started creatine 7- 10 days in advance.  I'll have to get stronger/better to get over 1,000 though, which has been one of my major goals for training for past few years.

3 comments:

  1. Nice total, Garrett. Didn't you pull 405 at one point?

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  2. Good job Garrett.I remember back when 225 was your goal for bench. Good stuff.

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  3. I've pulled 6x1x405 9/20/2011 and 425 on 4/17/2011. I haven't been deadlifting too much in the past 4 months or so as I have been spending more time and energy on cleans and snatches. I think that the olympic lifting has fucked up my deadlift form a little. I'll try to put more energy into heady deadlifts and hopefully I can push this back up. All in all though, even at 375 pounds, my deadlift is decent and I'm trying to worry about doing a bodyweight snatch, a muscle up, or a squat in the ~340 range, none of which I have done before. I'm confident that I'll be able to get back to 405 at least in the deadlift, since I've done it before.

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