Total Fitness Personal Trainer

Hi all,

It's taken me a while up to update, but I went o the British Championships and what a day it was!

It was a HUGE learning curve and valuable lesson in where I am currently at, and what I need to do.

I finished mid-field, the highlight being a new personal best squat of 172.5kg.


Have the vids of all my lifts here, was no where near the top guys, some of whom went for numerous world record attempts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vw1c9QwgC0 - bench 110 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH8M9X7aDQk Bench 117.5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF2tmwM0lws Bench 122.5 and pb attempt but failed .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCqV-0gyZQY Squat 150kg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NFHaRvredI Squat 162.5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFy8oINW8Qg Squat 172.5 and PB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddYD7B-12yA Deadlift 190kg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5uWOv5WUOM Deadlift 200kg fail - grip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CiOF5U3pWg Deadlift 200kg got it!

My bench was a bit of a gamble - wanted 122.5 but it just wasnt there on the day.
Annoyed with the deads - for some reason I couldnt hold the bar on the first attempt with 200kg while waiting for the refs call - which i have never had before.

It was just opening out my hand and while waiting it slipped down - big fat fail.
Nailed it second attempt, but wanted 210 really.

Ah well. So now back to drawing board and the plans are.

Adjust squat stance, go to squat in coverse flat shoes, shift feet out wider, work on hip flexibility and squat wider, in attempt to keep torso more upright when coming out of the hole.

Bench will shift to once every 5 days, with some floor pressing thrown in to work the mid point of the move, which seems to be my weak point presently.

Deadlift - more grip work - static holds to be done in various grips after deadlift work. A complete week off powerlifting now, and trip to the physio to sort out a tight quadratus laborum right hand side which keeps causing a bit of a hip slip to one side.

Onwards and upwards!

Thanks for reading.