Author - shtupandlift

This was my 2nd heavy bench session for my meet prep training for UPA Nationals in April. Worked up to a top set of 525lbs for a double paused, which was a PR for me. I did an additional single with 525 again afterwards just to get some extra practice in with my form and technique. So far my meet prep training is right on track and everything is going according to plan.

This was my first heavy Deadlift training session for this training cycle. I haven’t Deadlifted heavy at all since my meet 3 weeks ago. So I gave myself a nice long de load on my Deadlifts after my meet. Everything felt really good for this training session. I felt fresh and ready to start going heavy again. I had planned on doing 860lbs for just one single, but I didn’t feel tired or fatigued after the first single, so I pulled it for another one which felt about the same as the first one. This is by far the strongest my Deadlift has felt starting out a meet prep training cycle. I think 410kg is definitely well within my reach for my meet in April.

This was my first week back in knee wraps in about 10 weeks. Took it easy with the wraps and didn’t go too tight with them because I knew it would throw me off if I wrapped them like I used to before. Definitely could have wrapped my knees much tighter, but the rebound still felt good. Very happy with this training session considering how much time I took off from the wraps and it being my first week of meet prep training.

Week 1 of my meet prep bench training for UPA Nationals on April 18th.

Decided to do a meet without wraps just for fun. Ended up with a new All-Time World Record Raw Squat without wraps @ 308lbs (415kgs/914.9lbs) and New All-Time World Record Raw total without wraps @ 308lbs and overall highest ever (1,067.5kgs/2,353.4lbs) The old World Record Squat was 390kgs/859lbs and the old World Record total was 999kgs/2,202lbs @ 308lbs. The highest of all time was 2,300lbs no wraps and I beat that on my 2nd and 3rd attempt Deadlifts ending the day with 2,353lbs Raw total.

My best Raw Squat w/ wraps in competition is 440kgs/970lbs. Between my best competition squat with wraps and without wraps is 25kgs (55lbs).