Though I haven't posted on here much as of late; I realized that I need to update on the deadlift journey to 700. I competed at the WI State Fair State Open in August and pulled a 650lb deadlift along with at 320lb raw bench press to win Best Overall Lifter and first in my class. For bench, I opened at 300, which is an easy weight for me but my head came up on the first attempt so I got red lighted. After this, I decided to stay at 300 to make sure I got on the board. After hitting it on my second, I went to 320 for my third and though it was harder than it should have been, I got it. I need to get my bench rolling again. For deadlift, I opened at 585, which was smooth and easy, and it should have been since I tripled it a little over a month out. I went up to 630 and hit that rather easy. I closed out with my 650 goal and pulled it rather easily. Overall good meet and I felt like I was well on my way to 700 after performing so well here.
After this, I chose to enter WABDL Worlds in Vegas, which I had qualified for in a previous meet. While I wanted to do both bench and deadlift, I wanted to bench in a shirt for this meet and had nobody to go with me, so I decided just to focus on deadlift this time around. I didn't end up lifting until 630ish Vegas time, which was 8:30 to me so I felt a little off with the time difference (I usually train in the late morning/early afternoon) but I did decent. I opened at 601, which was smooth and easy. I had tripled this in training so no surprise here. I then jumped to 655.7 for a PR and broke my own WABDL state record. Based on how the field was looking, the one guy who would've beat me had bombed out (attempted 738 and missed) and those who were close to me would be beat by this attempt so I knew I had to hit this. After this, I went for the big goal and attempted 701. I got it moving almost to my knees but just didn't have it and missed the attempt. Overall it was a great meet and I'm very close to hitting a 700 pull. The goal for 2017 is to hit that 700 deadlift and to put together a nice 3 lift total. I'd like to total 1500+ raw and/or 1700+ geared. Back to the drawing board!
After this, I chose to enter WABDL Worlds in Vegas, which I had qualified for in a previous meet. While I wanted to do both bench and deadlift, I wanted to bench in a shirt for this meet and had nobody to go with me, so I decided just to focus on deadlift this time around. I didn't end up lifting until 630ish Vegas time, which was 8:30 to me so I felt a little off with the time difference (I usually train in the late morning/early afternoon) but I did decent. I opened at 601, which was smooth and easy. I had tripled this in training so no surprise here. I then jumped to 655.7 for a PR and broke my own WABDL state record. Based on how the field was looking, the one guy who would've beat me had bombed out (attempted 738 and missed) and those who were close to me would be beat by this attempt so I knew I had to hit this. After this, I went for the big goal and attempted 701. I got it moving almost to my knees but just didn't have it and missed the attempt. Overall it was a great meet and I'm very close to hitting a 700 pull. The goal for 2017 is to hit that 700 deadlift and to put together a nice 3 lift total. I'd like to total 1500+ raw and/or 1700+ geared. Back to the drawing board!
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