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At the end of my 12-week SL5x5 routine, I did a strength test, in the form of a mock powerlifting meet.

( Excruciating Mongo-Smash detail... )

Where next? Well, I'm still on for the thousand and more: this is working for me, and working nicely. I'm going to give Madcow 5x5 a go. I respond well to pushing this 5-rep point -- much better than I respond to training to failure or repping out.

And perhaps more importantly: those lifts are handy enough that I'll look out for a novice/masters powerlifting meet next year and try my hand in competition. Yay!

Coming to the end of the 12-week Stronglifts 5x5 program and it's been ace. Challenging and rewarding - and I'll get some test numbers out in a couple of weeks when it's done. For now, I'm looking at the future.

I've got a couple of programs in sight for the next quarter: Madcow 5x5, and Wendler 5/3/1. Madcow's a continuation of the 5x5 exercises with pyramid sets and a heavy-light-medium staging; Wendler has other exercises and heavy singles and a powerlifting-dedicated plan. I enjoy heavy singles. I enjoy 5x5 simplicity. I'm not sure I'm advanced enough for Wendler, but then I wasn't sure I'd survive squats every session with 5x5, either. A dilemma I'm sure will resolve itself by the time I get around to choosing.

Does anyone have any other recommendations? Strength program for an intermediate lifter.

Current Mood: cheerful

I've been wondering about how good you need to be before attending a powerlifting meet, so I had a look at the GB Powerlifting Federation's local results page. Not so much looking at the front of the pack where the barbells bend like Dali noodles and Very Big Men With Legs Like Trees* rule, so much as seeing what sort of level a dabbler should be without embarassing themselves.

I remember doing this with triathlons too, looking at the results to see if I could expect to come in at the back or two sigmas off the back. So: this link is a recent master's, junior and novice meet -- noobs like me. Looking at the athletes who are close to my bodyweight... I'm not there yet, but damn, you know, I might well be there next year. That's invigorating!

Just gotta unsuck this bench press... :)

* Dale Clark, The Squat.

( Classic gym poetry :) )

Current Mood: contemplative

Okay, I wasn't expecting to see this - maybe because regular powerlifting (deadlift, squat and benchpress) isn't an Olympic sport for a variety of reasons. But no, paralympic powerlifting exists: it's a straight benchpress competition factored on bodyweight. Turns out that powerlifting has been inclusive this way for decades, lower-limb amputees and spinal injury folks making up most of the competitors. How cool is that? Love to see some brute power in the games as well as the skill.

Current Mood: impressed

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Entries tagged with powerlifting

Strongifts 5x5 - 12 weeks later [training]

Smash Redux [training]

P-p-p-p-p-power!

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