eSign Powerlifting Event Made Easy

Esign powerlifting event

everyone welcome back to the barbell medicine YouTube channel we bring modern medicine to strength conditioning and strength conditioning to modern medicine I'm your host dr. Jordan Feigenbaum and this is a meet recap I just had a powerlifting meet May 12th and I figured that it would be cool to take you guys through my meet day prior to this my last meet was like four years ago 2015 Ron a chanelle's and the reason I hadn't done a meet for so long I did the medical residency and then I was doing a bunch of strong strength lifting meets with the overhead press instead of the bench press and so I actually didn't mean for it to go that long but that's what happened and so I knew I'd been wanting to do a meet a actual powerlifting meet but I kept putting it off I kept putting it off and I said I I was thinking well maybe I'll do it at the end of summer or maybe I'll do it in the fall but then I started looking at my schedule and I was like oh dang I actually don't have a good schedule coming up as far as having uninterrupted training that's of high priority so for instance I'm moving this summer I was going to Europe for almost a month in August to present at a conference and then the barbell medicine seminar in Berlin plus oral or domestic seminars so I kind of just wanted to you know get a meet under my belt while training was going pretty well so I found this meet down about two and a half hours south from where I live right now in San Luis Obispo and decided to sign up for it about four weeks prior to the meet so not necessarily a ton of prep for this meet but you know training was going well and I kind of had an inkling that I was either gonna test or go to a meet relatively soon so no excuses there so anyway I wanted to take you guys through my meet day and give you guys a glimpse into what it was like so so first let's talk about my weight now normally I sit between you know 203 205 that's like my standard walking around weight and for the USAPA land ipf that fits nicely to the 93 kilo class but this is actually my first USPA meet and again just on short notice I was just looking for a federations ahead of me nearby so I realized they have a 198 class and I was like nab that won't be a big deal so about a week out I just reduced my calories a little bit and I got down to I guess it was 202 201 and a half rather the Friday before the way and so they do the 24 hour away and so anyway I went to the sauna normally compete at 2:05 I'm gonna say kill she just gave me two one nine t8 so few pounds over we'll take care of that right now all right we made it I feel like a wet rat but got away and maro and then you don't Sunday and then the morning of the weigh-ins which was Saturday May 11th I was at one 98.5 when I left the house and it's began it's like a two and a half hour drive so I figured it wasn't going to be a big deal [Music] [Music] strivers [Music] it was interesting when I got there for the way and we had morning weigh-ins and so I you know stripped out I get on the the scale with the official right there and I step on the scale says 90.2 and I was like okay this is not what I have planned on and then I stepped off the scale and I stepped on the scale again and it flashed to 90.2 and then down to eighty nine point five and stayed there so I don't know you know the scales the digital scales are usually pretty accurate and I have a competition scale here the tanita comp scale that I spent way too much money on but I just got sick of playing this way team game that's a dad you shouldn't laugh at that but anyway I was pretty confident that my weight was dead-on and so so anyway after I weighed in just went about my day found a koffice ate normally and the real thing was just getting more fluids back in me so I didn't take a bunch of video of me just challenge out on food but I really didn't do too much because again I did have to cut that much weight so so that the rest of the day was pretty low-key normal Saturday for me Sunday ended up waking up pretty good breakfast in the hotel right here morning of the meat and just realized that if you make a neat card I usually have all my tendons warm up everything so I'm gonna do that it's just fine now enjoy it beautiful day he's ready to go today and then went to the meet venue now there were three flights I was actually the first flight I expect it to be the last flight because I had a feeling that I was gonna be opening heavier than anybody else but because I was at 198 the one I ate weight class I was lumped in the first flight with the 180 ones and then the heavy heavier competitors when the second and third flights now if they had been going just by you know weight on the bar I would have been in the last flight but you know you don't get to pick these sort of things and so is on the first flight I would prefer to bend a little in the later flights just cuz you know I don't like lifting first thing in the morning but it was all good so let's see on squats I opened at 250 kilos which is 551 and warm ups felts okay you know no big deal there and then I took my first attempt 250 and show up 551 pounds attaboy ninety-seven super impressive make some noise for joy call Jordan [Applause] [Applause] [Music] the 250 kilos felt good for the first attempt and then I think my next attempt was what 262 5 which is 577 or something like that Jordan [Music] [Music] and that actually moved really well I wasn't necessarily surprised with how well that it moved I just I expected it to feel heavier and I know you're thinking like wow your face looks like you were training pretty hard on that but the speed was pretty good and you know no big deal there so I'd actually consider jumping to 275 or something like that but then I decided to be conservative go to 272 point 5 which is 600 which would have been an all-time meet PR for squats in Nice leaves I've done 640 and in me before with knee wraps but this would have been a PR in knee sleeves [Applause] and honestly I was pretty confident that I was gonna get it just based on my second attempt then obviously that didn't work out so well so I was already kind of bummed because I came I did the meet because I wanted to PR you know on my list it's not just to like go to the meet and try to win that this wasn't really that important to me I just wanted to PR so I was pretty bummed on that and I'll be honest for like the next you know 10 15 minutes I was just a you know bummed out about it just it's like the whole meet was ruined but that wasn't true and you know I had my pity party pout it a little bit and yeah I don't have any sort of inkling as to why I didn't make my third it just wasn't there that day so anyway got ready for bench press and I was really confident my bench training going into this meet so I actually bumped on my opener I planned at 100 Penang at 185 which is 407 but I wanted to make a bigger jump for my first two my second at least that's what I was thinking based on you know how well my bench training has been going so I opened at 411 187 and a half kilos [Music] that felt way worse than I wanted it to feel just way worse and you know the interesting thing and I wasn't aware of this I should have read the rulebook more thoroughly the USP AVT to supply your own liftoff person and yeah I I would have prefered maybe more of a liftoff I also noticed that on my first attempt in particular I was way under the support so it was way too close so I needed to actually move out although then it's harder to lift the weight out to the lifter I don't know you know it was finely it gives great handoff so I just I would have liked to know would have liked to been prepared for that so anyway 187 5 moved not as good as I wanted it to so I jumped to 192 5 [Music] [Applause] and that felt actually better than my first attempt because I think I pushed the bar back a little bit better and then on my third attempt I just jumped to 195 two and a half kilo increment just because 192 five didn't feel great [Music] and it didn't go I mean again I tried to move out even further on the bench press further away from the hook so I could actually push the bar back it just yeah it wasn't there that day and I don't know if even if I had you know Ray Williams giving me a lift off I'm not sure that I would have gotten that just wasn't there but which was really surprising because again in training I pinned bench 200 kilos I had benched 190 to 195 you know a bunch of times in the you know two or three weeks leading up to the meet so I was really confident my benchpress if you know compared to you know my squad or my deadlift which also we're going well so yeah that was another bummer so between missing my third squad and my third bench I was kind of it was hard to you know get rally for the deadlifts but you know got had some food and then got ready for the deadlifts and I figured you know if if anything is gonna go right for this meet it's gonna be the deadlifts so yeah the warm-up room they had a Texas deadlift bar which is you know it's a it's a whip your bar then some of the other deadlift bars that are out there like the rogue deadlift bar which is not quite as whippy and also has wider hand spacing and not quite as witty as the end in the okie bar which is less with the compared to the Texas bar in any event a well used Texas bar is just fun to use if you're used to it because the bar just you know it's it's you pull on the bar and it gets to below your knees before the weights leave the floor so that's kind of fun although if you're not well practiced on it sometimes your lists don't go up in any event so in the warm-up room my last warm-up I think was 585 if that thing flew it was fine and then opener was 660 but it's funny when I got out onto the platform and I went about my normal deadlift setups I thought oh they were using a stiff bar which is fine cuz I actually prefer using a stiff bar just if I especially if I've been trained on a deadlift bar but it was a deadlift bar it just it felt much much different and I'm not sure if it's because it was new or different brand or whatever I was just kind of a weird deal [Music] at six sixty flu no big deal so I jumped to 700 that flew as well that was probably the fastest I've ever pulled 700 [Applause] [Music] come on Jordan [Music] [Applause] and I honestly don't know what happened on the third pole went to three I guess it was 3:30 [Music] and dismissed it and honestly it's like I didn't even give it a good try I don't know if I was tired or just kind of bummed out but after my second pull at 700 I kind of felt like oh I'm gonna I'll pull this PR no big deal I just wasn't there so hard to say like it I didn't hurt myself you know I felt fine it just wasn't as strong as I wanted it so overall the meet is not what I wanted but it's what I had that day I mean it wasn't a bad performance I mean squatting 578 and benching 425 and at lifting 700 at 197 in a 188 weight class you know it's pretty good it's just the none of those were PRS for me and I really wanted to do that on the other hand I haven't really done a powerlifting meet you know in a long time so this is a pretty good return to the sport [Music] [Applause] [Music] and I'll probably do a meet in October that's the plan right now just kind of looking at my schedule and there's I know there's a couple meets and then in the area where I'll I'll be living so we'll see see how I do but first I had a strong man meet this idea that I was gonna try to do these competitions before I ended up moving and Allen thrall one of our barbell medicine coaches you guys knows trained untamed guy it's got a power or a strongman meet up at his gym and so I ended up signing up for that so I've been doing a bunch of strongman stuff and honestly it's beating the crap out of me I've got these crazy marks on my arm that I don't yeah I don't know if I could show those to you guys and then on my back from the yoke and then my hands are all beat up from the farmers walk which is fine it's just it's like strongman is is is a whole new deal so we'll see I'm excited to go out there and do that and if you're in the area in Sacramento June 2nd I think is what it is you know comes come see me flounder in the strongman competition it'll be fun though I'm excited to do it and I was excited to do this powerlifting meet USPA put on a great meet and had strong gym down in San Luis Obispo like a great place to train to really appreciate them having me out there and it was it was great it was fun you know again I left the meet you know feeling like I wanted to come back and compete and do better next time so we'll see maybe October maybe sometime other time this fall and anyway thanks for tuning in to the barbell medicine YouTube channel thanks for watching my meat recap if you guys like the video drop a like and a comment below share with your friends if they want to see me lift and we'll catch you guys next time thanks for watching bye [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music]