i would love this. i hope other people share what they are doing and what their plans are!
hi, i'm kathy and i am training to be a powerlifter.
i lifted at home for the first year and a half. i had the help of some people on a nice journaling lifting site to help, so it was enough, but yeah... lifting in a real gym is a great experience. just being around other people who lift, even if you don't talk much is very nice.
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just started working with a great coach (who is being inducted into the NASA athlete hall of fame this weekend in OK!) and it is intimidating but also very exciting. this week for the first time i saw a man squat 405... the first was a fail, and he got the second after knee wraps... (i got to see rich wrapping the knees and received a small impromptu instruction on it. so cool.)
and that same day another guy benched 435 with the wide grip bar. how insane is that? you see much bigger benches online, but to see someone move that much weight in person is so invigorating.
i don't really know what my coach is doing, but i know he is heavily influenced by the russians, so i suppose he is training me in a similar manner.
it sucks that i have to work while in a deficit, but at least my coefficient will improve while i am losing, if i can just hold onto the lifts i have. he says he can get my bench to 145 in two months.
(i am babbling here because there really isn't another place to do it.)
he is big on conditioning, so i pulled the sled lots this past week. lemme tell ya, pulling that damn sled in the parking lot with 200# takes the wind out of you. i felt like puking.
so really, i can talk about what i did on the daily, but i have no idea what plan im following, other than two days technique, two days heavy and one day full conditioning. (holy crap those two hours about killed me. i am not one for cardio)
my long term goal is to get 1000 total raw for either 181 or 165 weight class. i don't know if i will get there, but i want it. on a good day, i think my total is 625 (225 squat, 275 dead, 125 bench) but what really matters is how i do in a meet. i hope that my first meet is in early may, so we shall see. if i cant make that one, then i have to wait until november!