For this training cycle, I followed the same program I did for my 3rd meet, but this time I took more deloads. I was able to train at a lower body weight, but towards the end, decided not to cut weight to get down to 97lbs... for a few reasons, one, being of course weight cutting sucks, especially when you cram it in a short amount of time. And second, 102-103 was where I was on average throughout most of my training, and I got stronger there, so that's what I wanted to compete with. My strong body! Not a deprived body.
I also treated the week of my meet as a deload and still followed my training plan for a typical deload week. I didn't test my maxes like I have for my previous meets. So when I planned my meet attempts, I told myself, that the numbers I was going for, were numbers I would've hit anyway if it was a regular training week. These numbers were on the schedule, this is what my body was expecting. My strong, not deprived body =) So since I didn't change anything, then nothing should be different on meet day. Theoretically. That's what I tricked myself into believing anyway, haha.
The interesting thing about this training cycle is that my squat and bench got better faster, while I stalled on my deadlift. That was bittersweet. Obviously, 2 lifts out of 3 are great, but deadlift is my game. So I was a little disheartened that things weren't progressing the way I had thought they would. But super excited about my bench and squat progress!
Not weight cutting for this meet was a huge relief. I still watched what I ate a little bit the days leading up to weigh in. But I did not go crazy over food like I did for my previous meet. At my last meet, I brought so much junk food and snacks. This time, I probably brought half, and very little of it was junk food. I just wasn't craving it. It felt so much better.
The set up of this meet was kinda sweet. There was a lot of space and I stayed on the mats most of the time, just stretching and rolling, and being in my own little zone. It felt really good. It also didn't feel as crowded because there were only two flights.
Days leading up to weigh in and the meet felt really anticlimactic. It was like I almost felt like I wasn't competing. I wasn't hyped up about it. I competed on Nov. 12, Sunday and the last day I lifted was on Wednesday before the meet.
Overall, I am super happy about how I did at this meet. I didn't break any records for squat or bench, but I did break a state record for deadlift, yay! I am so so sooo close to my goal of 300lb deadlift. NEXT MEET!
| Date | 6/4/2016 | 12/3/2016 | 6/18/2017 | 11/12/2017 |
| Weigh in/Weight Class | 103.4/105LB | 95/97LB | 96.1/97LB | 103.1/105LB |
| SQUAT | 165.35 | 176.37 | 177.47 | 192.9 |
| BENCH | 93.7 | 99.21 | 100.31 | 110.23 |
| DEADLIFT | 248.02 | 259.04 | 281.09 | 292.1 |
| TOTAL | 507.07 | 534.62 | 558.87 | 595.23 |
| WILKS | 309.801 | 346.131 | 359.115 | 364.44 |
