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CAPO Australasian PUSH/PULL FIT-X Melbourne

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cool im goin to this, repping n.z in the armwrestling comp over there taking on ozzys best, fly out next week cant weight

Awesome mate - is going to be a massive event - so many big names in power sports.

Do you have a competitor list for the various events?

I heard lbstone there for Strongman?

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cool im goin to this, repping n.z in the armwrestling comp over there taking on ozzys best, fly out next week cant weight

Awesome mate - is going to be a massive event - so many big names in power sports.

Do you have a competitor list for the various events?

I heard lbstone there for Strongman?

yep hes gna be there bro, Iv written the list for the strongman and the bodybuilding competitors below,i know its gona be huge weekend so cant wait

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Heres the Fitx web page you mite find all the info in there

http://www.fitx.com.au/

These this is the line up for the bodybuilding/figure and bikini comp

MEN'S PRO

Dexter Jackson

Toney Freeman

Ed Nunn

Johnnie Jackson

Michael Kefalianos

Ben Pakulski

Ivan Sadek

Luke Timms

Jeff Long

An Nguyen

Joe Ulberg

WOMEN'S FIGURE

Erin Stern

Mallory Haldeman

Candice Lewis

Candice Keane

Amanda Doherty

Laura Keddie

Darlene Escano

Summer Bernard

Yoko Washington

Nuria Novoa NZ

Kristy Thompson

WOMEN'S BIKINI

Nathalia Melo

Nicole Nagrani

India Paulino

Rhiannon Harris

Amy Wright

Jess Pendergrast

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The strongman line up so far is

Derek Poundstone (2nd at World's Strongest Man 2008 /3 x Arnold Classic Champion

Nick Best of the USA (Former World powerlifting Champion and 2nd in the FitX 2012),

Jack McIntosh from the UK,

Warrick Brant from Australia,

Frankie Scheun (The Southern Hemisphere Champion 2012),

Gerhard Von Staden and Tristan OBrien all from South Africa.

Other top Aussies include:

Jordan Steffens

Marc Wells

Eben Le Roux (WSM Competitor 2012)

Robert Killpatrick

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Have been given Finals tickets to the Pro Show and Strongman awesome! .... Also Bench comp is straight after figure and bikini pro so will be warming up backstage ..... :grin:

cool hope you do well in the benchpress comp, any more tikets lol they cost quite abit to, i mite watch the finals tho be awesome

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Have been given Finals tickets to the Pro Show and Strongman awesome! .... Also Bench comp is straight after figure and bikini pro so will be warming up backstage ..... :grin:

wait....wut m8? did we get strongman tickets too?!

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Have been given Finals tickets to the Pro Show and Strongman awesome! .... Also Bench comp is straight after figure and bikini pro so will be warming up backstage ..... :grin:

cool hope you do well in the benchpress comp, any more tikets lol they cost quite abit to, i mite watch the finals tho be awesome

bro was that you who took on John Brzenk in the cash comp on sunday?

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FITX Round up Trip

Last weekend myself and another New Zealander (Geordie) took part in the GPA (global Power lifting Alliance) Representing New Zealand in the Australasian Push/pull Meet. Held at the prestigious FITX fitness expo in Melbourne.

Day of the Comp

Sunday

We left for the comp at around 10am in the morning after a big feed and carb up – we were going to need every once of energy at our disposal if we were to hit our intended targets for the meet. Going into the comp I had a game plan set in motion that I been planning 3-4 months prior to the meet – From the amount of warm-ups to do ,right up to the third and final attempt of the actual meet.

When we arrived at the expo it was PACKED - Just like it had been the previous 2 days, Sundays turnout was expected to be around 8 thousand plus from midday onwards. Thankfully we had been given athlete passes for the 3 day event so getting in and out and around the expo was made a little easier for us. Once we had navigated ourselves through the crowds we set up base camp behind the main stage. - This is where we would be doing all our warm ups before the meet started. After we had settled in we still had an hour and a half before the comp started so we decided to check out the main stage where they were just about yo kick off the Arm wrestling comp for a cash prize. and all you had to do was defeat all time world champion arm wrestler John Brzenk.

John had challenged himself against 24 arm wrestlers including some from the Australian arm wrestling federation and New Zealand's own champion Maateiwarangi Heta-morris. But John with all his years of experience under his belt proved to strong, taking out competitor after competitor. Big Al who had benched 260+kg s the day before almost managed to sneak a victory in, but his hand slipped out after they had strapped the hands together the next round, John made swift work of him. After John had defeated 23 arm wrestlers the only person who was left for John to face was none other than Lars Rørbakken from Norway. Both of these men put up a spectacular battle going back and forth. Lars coming very close to pinning John at one point but John eventually managed to turn the tide and come out victorious with a 24-0 streak!. Amazing!.

Giants Live worlds strongest man qualifier was also on at the Expo. and I wanted to see if we could get a glimpse of the man himself, Derek Poundstone.

After shuffling our way through the hundreds of onlookers we came to the strongman stage and luck was on our side – Because not more than a metre away was Derek himself and was chatting to fellow competitor, Nick Best. Seeing these guys on TV is one thing, but to actually see them in the flesh is a totally different story. The dudes aren't even human – the sheer mass and strength of these guys is akin to that of a Viking War God and then some!. We were fortunate enough the two of them were taking photos with fans and onlookers as they had just finished an event. So Geordie and I seized the opportunity and took a few snaps with the two behemoths!.

After we had taken the photos it was time to head back behind the main stage and start or prep for the warm ups, hopefully we weren't going to have the same delay as the lifters had for the bench meet just the day before.

It was another good lifter turnout for the Deadlift comp, a few notable lifters were competing. Alex Lowe, a very strong Jnr lifter with numerous Australian and world records, Firas Arabakov who is arguably one of Australia's Best deadlifters and AJ Millington and amazingly strong female lifter and all around cool chick!.

A few things were a bit different to what I'm used too. One was the huge crowd that was starting to congregate around the main stage and another was lifting with a Texas Deadlift bar for the very first time, suffice to say it didn't take me long to get used to the bar. Here is how the warm ups went...

10 mins stretching

Warm up

70x5

140x2

160x1

180x1

220x1

260x1

I tend to keep my warm ups to the barest minimum, pulling only singles – enough to warm up the muscle groups and yet not overly taxing on the body before my first attempt, which I had keyed in at 290

1st attempt – 290 kg good lift

Went with a 290 opener to settle the nerves and set a good rhythm for the rest of the comp and just to get on the board. There is nothing more worse than prepping for months on end, flying thousands of kilometres only to bomb on your opening lift something we all dread as power lifters but thankfully I didn't bomb. Speed was good and by the time I did the 290 I had already adapted to the whip of the Texas deadlift bar, although the warm-up bar had a lot more whip than the comp bar

2nd attempt – 307.5 kg good lift

2.5kgs off my all time Comp personal best. Now this lift was a lot harder than it should have been, partly because I missed one of my mental cues before breaking the bar from the floor, However. I was able to recover fairly quickly but had to use a lot of lower back power to lock it out.

3rd attempt – 320 kg two whites one red

Being drained from the previous attempt I basically decide to go all of nothing for my final lift. This was the moment I had been training for the last 4 months. This was the number that had plagued my dreams these last 4 months. And this was the moment I had shed blood, sweat and tears for in the gym. I begin to go through my pre-attempt ritual and I'm sacred shitless, As I approach the chalk bin and chalk my hands for the last time I start to channel out my thoughts but the fear still lingers in my mind taunting me..

“Can you really do this?”

“You don't have it in you”

“What if?”

I stay stay true to my pre - ritual. I go over to Geordie, ammonia cap in hand. I start chanting in my head “speed is king” over and over all the while Geordie gives me his pep talk, Until I hear “bar is loaded” then Geordie unleashes a fury of slaps to my face. I then break my cap and inhale the ammonia and begin my walk to the bar. Fear and self doubt still in my mind.. whispering, taunting.

Each step I take I reflect back on my training to this point, why I've put my body through hell. The sacrifices I've made, the reason I am here. With each step I take – the more focus I become and my confidence grows.

I get to the bar, I take one glimpse of it just long enough for me to judge and align my feet for where they need to be. I set up my feet, look up to the sky and inhale as much air as possible. By now the ammonia is starting to kick in, helping me drown out the fear...But its persistent it grows louder and louder almost to the point it overwhelms me and then..

I snap!.

I become unstoppable juggernaut of destruction with one purpose, Rip the bar off the floor as if I was Kratos pulling the chains of Olympus from the depths of tartarus!. As soon as I grip that that bar I shunt all the momentum from my hamstrings into the bar. The bar launches up, but as soon as it gets to my knees, my legs start to shake, Violently! I use every ounce of muscle and tactic to get the bar through my sticking point without hitching the bar – to me hitching would be the ultimate dishonour. I do everything in my power to avoid it. Its the hardest thing I have done, but I don't give up the bar moves millimetre by painstaking millimetre. My head is filled with my coaches voice screaming “HIPS!,HIPS!,HIPS!”

The bar keeps moving.

My hands feel like they have been dipped in lava but I grip the bar harder than ever, my back is taxed but it keeps taking the strain. The bar almost stops just centimetres from lock out, centimetres

from my goal, my body is running on fumes I pour every last bit of energy and emotion I have into the these last few centimetres and I use my final weapon to help me.

I feed off the roar of the crowd.

And I lock 320kgs out!.

I get the “down” command from the head ref, I'm utterly spent, but its not over just yet. I look over my shoulder to where the ref's light stand is and wait for their final decision.

The side ref is 1st to decide, its red.

I'm thinking to myself I have come all this way and I have hitched the bar. I then await the last 2 ref's decisions, it seems to last an age. I feel like I am in one of those TV programmes about to be dished out the worse news ever, and then I see it. 2 white lights – A passed Lift!!!!

I raise my hands and celebration I wave to crowd and thank them and then I go and thank the ref's and shake there hands. As I walk off the stage I let loose a mighty “cheeeeeeeeyhoooooo!” and go celebrate with Geordie.

As I walk back to the warm up area. I take my belt off and collapse on the nearest chair. And close my eyes for a moment. When I open my eyes I see a large figure walking towards me, The massive figure is none other than Wayne Howlett GPA world champion standing in front of me. He comes up to me shakes my hand an says.“You didn't hitch that bar mate..you just shook a bloody lot!. I've never seen just a gutsy lift! And you never gave up! Awesome stuff man!.”

To have an accomplished lifter like Wayne come up to me and say that, it was THEE highlight of the trip for me!

Many thanks to everyone who has shown me there support, my sponsor CBC and to the organisers in Australia

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Post on the month big John. Well done.

Yeah good read! Inspiring :clap: :clap: :clap:

Holy crap, you two just agreed on something! :pfft:

I absolutely agree too, got my vote mate. Watching your vid was awesome, reading that write up was so much better! Went back and watched the vid again and it put so much more meaning behind it. Damn fine work John, you've done yourself, CBC and NZ very proud. Awesome stuff bro :clap: :clap: :clap:

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