Author - shtupandlift

Just having some fun training heavy close grips again. Going to train these for a little while and see how far I can take them.

First training session back going heavy beltless off a deficit. Haven’t trained heavy without a belt in about 4 months. This is 10lbs off my best PR. If I feel good for my next heavy session, I’ll try for a PR.

This broke Jon Cole’s All Time world record raw total w/ wraps of 2,364lbs done back in 1972. This was 2 weeks after competing at GPA Worlds. Had a much better meet on this day. I ended up missing 1,003lbs on my 3rd squat and 887lbs on my 3rd deadlift. Either one of those lifts would have given me a 2,400+ raw total. The squat bar was very whippy and threw me off, lost my balance on my last attempt on the way up. On my 2nd attempt with 440kgs, you can see me shaking bad out of the hole because of the bar whipping on my back. On my 3rd attempt deadlift, I was just gased and couldn’t finish it at lock out. The meet started at 9 a.m and didn’t finish until 10:30 p.m. We got done deadlifting after 10 so it was a very long day. The quest for a 1,000+lb raw squat and 2,400+lb raw total w/ wraps will be continued next year. Looking at doing my next meet sometime in the spring.

This was my last heavy Squat training session of my meet prep for GPA Worlds. I’m currently 3 weeks out and will be de loading all the way up to the meet now. For this training session, I basically just went by how I felt. The goal was to go up to at least my planned opener for the meet (420kgs/926lbs) and if I felt good, I’d go heavier. If not then I would just cut it there. Since that felt good, I decided to take a couple more heavier singles after. My dad picked the weight for my last set which was 465kgs/1,026lbs. That ended up feeling much better than I was expecting, it also moved faster than I expected too. I’d say the depth was right around parallel for that set. I got a side view of it just to make sure. I talked with Ed Coan right after this training session and showed him my depth. A couple weeks ago he had told my dad and myself that he might be judging at GPA Worlds. Since I knew he might be judging there, I asked him to give me a 100% honest opinion on how it looked. He had said it looked perfectly parallel and that I would need to take it in at least a 1/2 inch deeper to get white lights on depth at GPA. I’m taking his word for it and I’ll definitely get it in a tad bit deeper at the meet. I won’t be posting anymore videos until after the meet since all my heavy training is done now. If you want to keep up with me from now leading up to the meet, follow me on Instagram @ericlilliebridge.

This was my last heavy Bench before GPA Worlds. Worked on heavy paused singles up to 98% of my goal 3rd attempt at the meet which came out to be 530lbs. I’m shooting for 245kg/540lbs at the competition for a meet PR. Coming off a couple weeks of De loading and being well rested before the meet, I think I’ll have another 10lbs in me even after max Squatting. But I’ll just have to wait and see how I feel on meet day. As of right now, I’m a little over 3 weeks out from the meet. All I have left is one last heavy Squat training session and after that I’ll basically just be De loading all the way until the meet.