2017 log

[Realtalk]

23/8

 

5L today. scale batteries flat lol will get new one and weigh again tmw. Eating boiled kumara multiple times a day. Last time I went zero carbs. So be interesting to see if it works ok. Bit of a risk but have to learn my body and see how it goes. Will probably end up knocking out the carbs from tommoros night. If I did the same as last time then I wouldn't know if there's a better way. Feeling good anyway. All booked into the hotel in Hamilton Thursday so I can bath there early morning. Weigh in then drive back to Tauranga and be at home Friday for the day and night and drive back to the comp sat morning. 

[Realtalk]

24/8

 

had a medical and drug test for work today. Weighed myself there at 104 with clothes on on nurses scales. Got a new battery for my scales and just weighed myself now and 108.3 lol so that's a mindfuck. If I'm 108 I'm fucked for u100 at this point and time. Best I can do is get on the comp scales tommorow night when I get to Hamilton.

[maccaz]

6 minutes ago, Realtalk said:

24/8

 

had a medical and drug test for work today. Weighed myself there at 104 with clothes on on nurses scales. Got a new battery for my scales and just weighed myself now and 108.3 lol so that's a mindfuck. If I'm 108 I'm fucked for u100 at this point and time. Best I can do is get on the comp scales tommorow night when I get to Hamilton.

I'd trust nurse scales over home ones I reckon

[Realtalk]

8 minutes ago, maccaz said:

I'd trust nurse scales over home ones I reckon

 

I think so too bro since I gave them a bit of a bashing when the battery was flat to try get them going lol

[FellowshipOfTheRon]

 can you do something like eat prunes or whatever and change the proteins in yoru diet? i heard meat eaters (especially red meat) can have couple kilos in the colon or whatever for up to 2 days

[Realtalk]

47 minutes ago, FellowshipOfTheRon said:

 can you do something like eat prunes or whatever and change the proteins in yoru diet? i heard meat eaters (especially red meat) can have couple kilos in the colon or whatever for up to 2 days

 

I haven't eaten any red meat this past week mate. Have dropped the carbs now completley. No need to panic just yet. It's probably the scales. It's all good homie.

 

btw prunes are low in protein I think about 3 or 4 grams per 100g. And that's probably being generous. That means I'd have to eat a kilo to get 40g protein. Plus it's an incomplete protein so i would need to eat it with something else containing protein to make it worth while. Tommorow will just be eggs for protein source. But this week I have been eating chicken, fish and eggs. Complex Carbs have come from boiled kumara, been getting fiberous carbs from greens like broccoli and beans. And fats from avocado, almonds and that fats that are in the salmon. Last time it was much the same bar the complex carbs.

 

 

[Realtalk]

Oh unless you're meaning eat the prunes to help digestion? Sorry I didn't know they had that property. 

 

But no I don't need to do that. And if I did I'd buy this thing from the pharmacy that you shove up your arse, squirt it and it flushes everything out. Rather than change my diet.

 

I don't eat a lot of red meat, probably have good premium mince once for dinner and again for lunch in the week.

[FellowshipOfTheRon]

yup just meant for digestion. i remember when adding prunes/dates to diet for fibres and was shocked at losing 4 kilo  suddenly before realizing it had that little side effect

[Realtalk]

Thanks bro, will read into it.

[maccaz]

ITT fotr talks about the well known fact that eating heaps of prunes makes you shit your guts out. this is why old people eat it.

 

 

[Realtalk]

105.4 on my scales this morning. Thought I might have been in a better position weight wise than this but I feel better than I did last time physically. This time previous I was a kg heavier so it's gonna be doable. Gonna get on the comp scales tonight in Hamilton, match mine up to them and go forward from there.

[Wookie]

So Ideal on comp scales will be anything under 103-104 tonight?

[Realtalk]

26/8

 

weighed in just before at 97.5kg. Went harder than I needed to as my scales were giving me different readings in different places on the hotel bathroom floor, I think it was probably uneven. It's all learning. Now to just focus on the comp and getting back up on weight. 

[HarryB]

 

Go hard man  looking forward to seeing how you go!!! 

[Realtalk]

27/8 - comp day

 

bodyweight up to 108.3kg. Time to bang!

[Realtalk]

Squats done. Twinged my back in warm ups same thing I did at the novice comp in Auckland. Think it's jarring on the walkouts. 290 came up ok for first attempt. Back was sore. 310 for second and couldn't get it out of the hole. 310 again for third, walked it out and could feel back screaming at me. Not worth attempting. Pretty pissed off and dissapointed to say the least. Havnt bombed so gonna bench and then see if I can deadlift ok. not gonna get the total I wanted now but will do my best. Bench should be ok, just have to get back into it mentally.

[Realtalk]

Dropped bench to 170 opener. Back sore on that. Gonna call that a day. Not gonna deadlift. Left my job a week ago and Start a new Job next week can't afford to get injuried big time got no ACC cover. Thanks for all your guys support this prep in my journal. Sucks all that success I was having in the gym couldn't translate into success at competition. I'm gonna have a couple of weeks away from the gym, gather my thoughts, debrief and then choose what we do next time. Cheers.

[Wookie]

:(

[PETN]

Good call. No point fucking your body up especially when it's unlikely you'd hit the dead you were hoping for, with a shit back.

 

The main reason I stopped doing squats and deads because it was fucking my back (both) and knee (squats) up. Got the elbow thing too but that wasn't a huge deal in everyday activities mostly.  Was getting stronger and stuff at both but that (going heavier) was half the problem.

 

My back and knee still are quite bad. Lying on the floor atm as that's pretty much only position back feels ok in. Kind of miss doing deadlifts but not as much as I want my back to stop constantly aching.

 

 

 

 

[jimmybro1]

2 hours ago, PETN said:

Good call. No point fucking your body up especially when it's unlikely you'd hit the dead you were hoping for, with a shit back.

 

The main reason I stopped doing squats and deads because it was fucking my back (both) and knee (squats) up. Got the elbow thing too but that wasn't a huge deal in everyday activities mostly.  Was getting stronger and stuff at both but that (going heavier) was half the problem.

 

My back and knee still are quite bad. Lying on the floor atm as that's pretty much only position back feels ok in. Kind of miss doing deadlifts but not as much as I want my back to stop constantly aching.

 

 

 

 

Do much core strengthening? Help me a lot but not pull near what you do/did 

[PETN]

1 hour ago, jimmybro1 said:

Do much core strengthening? Help me a lot but not pull near what you do/did 

 

No not since 2011. Kept meaning to but never could be fucked. Unsure if it would have helped me much or not and probably this whole tangent is irrelevant to this log anyway but thanks for reminding me. Might throw it in to my current training/(lack of).

 

I think with some of these type injuries like ruptured discs and knee injuries etc once you get them you're pretty much fucked without surgery or you will recover a bit but not be able to lift heavy without injuring it again. Or you get surgery and it's still shit or you aren't allowed to go hard with lifting. 

 

 

[HarryB]

Sometimes shit just happens bro. Assess and move on.  

[Realtalk]

f*ck it I'll debrief now don't a need week or two to think about it, this is what I feel happened I just didn't have it mentally, a few things happened and I couldn't deal with it on the day. I tweaked my back walking out the weight in warm ups, but it was fine for my 290 opener so it's just a small excuse really. I'm really dissappointed I couldn't come back from a bad squat. It beat me.

 

i put so much pressure on myself leading up to this comp, throughout the whole prep which was 18 weeks long. I wanted to show those few people at GPC who I had a disagreement with that I would get a big total just to make myself feel better. I'm not too proud to admit that was my mindset. But that was toxic thinking and when it wasn't going well the pressure in the gym just piled up. After the dissapointing novice comp 6 weeks ago. I changed my mindset in the gym to a more positive one and my training was back on track going better than ever. I had massive expectations for yesterday.

 

Yesterday, i failed my 2nd attempt of 310 and when it didnt go my way I couldn't let it go. I walked my 3rd out (again 310) and it just beat me mentally. There was my back issue but I think it mostly just beat me. It infected my bench press warm ups and they didn't go well. My opener was 182.5, I changed it to 170 and I pressed that but it hurt my back or was I just telling myself that? I dunno. The comp just went downhill fast. I got a lot to work on to be a good competitive lifter.

 

thats two comps in a row now that I haven't finished. It's got nothing to do with the training or program, Jono has that on point but it's how i approach it and I just finding it hard to deal with failure. I put these big expectations on myself in the lead up which are possibly  unrealistic and thinking about it constantly mentally tires me out and im just setting myself up to fail because anything less than what I expect is automatic failure. That's just how I think. Everyone saying "you got 290 squat that's all good" but I got 310 2 weeks ago in the gym but failed that today. I wanted 320, all week I been telling myself 320 for the third. 310 was meant to be a given. How crazy is that. So in my mind that's a failure.

 

so then of course I had a total I wanted to get yesterday. Going off training numbers, not unrealistic. well I only got a 290 squat so in my mind that means the whole comps failed and it's not even 1/3 of the way through and I'm already thinking in a negative way because the total I expected is down 20-30kg only after squats. If I had of got the 310 squat and missed the 3rd I possibly would still be dissapointed. Who knows. My early comps I always went 9/9 or 8/9. That's what im used to, probably unrealistic as we get better. I'm not sure. Probably why I skipped 3rd  squats last year at nats and worlds cause I was scared of failure and how that would impact the comp moving forward, funnily enough it worked I did really well at nationals last year and at worlds I pb my bench before I tore my pec. But it's a bad habit and it's being a pussy.

 

Thats just a look into what happened yesterday, mentally a lots of things will change for next time. There is obviously the big cut as well I dunno if that plays a part or not. I'm not going to make excuses. Just keep it real and admit I had a poor comp and better effort is needed next time. Lots to work on moving forward.

[bang_bang]

Hard luck bro I'm sure you'll come back stronger next year. It looked like you weren't there mentally on that 3rd squat. I've noticed a lot lately and been guilty of it myself, everyone goes into a comp wanting to have the perfect day but unfortunately that rarely happens. It's all good and well hitting big singles in your comfortable, routine environment but to hit a max effort on all 3 lifts somewhere new, in front of a heap of people, when you've put all this pressure on yourself, knowing its your only shot at it and having little doubts starting to creep into your mind isn't an easy thing to do. Some people seem to thrive off a comp environment but I certainly don't.

[maccaz]

What Elliot said. I got comfy hitting certain numbers in the gym in my usual environment and then from my first squat in competition I felt like I was pushing shit uphill and barely scraping anywhere near what I had expected to get. 

All other factors aside I reckon it's a mindset thing which is probably hard to learn but I'm working on it