Central Districts Novice 3-lift / BP Champs

[Brydiea]

Cool . Glad I'm not the only first timer. Come say hi to me. I'll be the guy freaking out in the corner with no friends .

I'll make sure to come say hi too if I see you hiding in the corner haha!

[moveloveeat]

Cool . Glad I'm not the only first timer. Come say hi to me. I'll be the guy freaking out in the corner with no friends .

I'll be the girl freaking out in the other corner with no friends lol, at least my partner looks like a powerlifter I am going to look very out of place! Not long to go now! On that note I need to buy some long socks....

[teamfatboy]

Looks like we'd better make sure there are lots of corners lol  

 

One thing I've learned is that strength comes in all sizes...

 

Watch the women lifting tomorrow at the NZPF Classic Championships in Auckland here:

http://livestream.com/accounts/6874480/events/4178950 

https://www.facebook.com/events/827448697337456/ 

[Skeletor]

Bit of a dumbo question but how do they know what height to have the bar set for each individual in the squat and bench allowing for the different heights?

[BeastBuilder]

Bit of a dumbo question but how do they know what height to have the bar set for each individual in the squat and bench allowing for the different heights?

Before the lifting starts, sometime between weigh in and the lifter's breifing generally, they will get everyone to go and unrack an empty squat and they will write down your rack height, where you want the rack (out like normal or leaning in so you can hold wider) and your safety heights. Then they will do bench rack heights and safeties height for bench (to make sure it is above your neck if you drop the bar). Then they put all this into the computer and it will be displayed with your attempts so the spotter loaders can adjust when they load your weights.

[Skeletor]

Before the lifting starts, sometime between weigh in and the lifter's breifing generally, they will get everyone to go and unrack an empty squat and they will write down your rack height, where you want the rack (out like normal or leaning in so you can hold wider) and your safety heights. Then they will do bench rack heights and safeties height for bench (to make sure it is above your neck if you drop the bar). Then they put all this into the computer and it will be displayed with your attempts so the spotter loaders can adjust when they load your weights.

Oh wicked that's awesome. Thanks bro I thought they just guessed it lol.

[moveloveeat]

Next Newbie question! 

 

How does the warmup work? Bit concerned I won't have enough time / will be fighting for equipment. 

[BeastBuilder]

Next Newbie question!

How does the warmup work? Bit concerned I won't have enough time / will be fighting for equipment.

Depending on how many lifters there are they'll split you into flights of 10-15 usually and so there is usually plenty of equipment, and they should give you ample notice of time when your flight is going to be lifting etc.

The key in the warm up room is to not be afraid to ask people if you can work in or borrow weights they aren't using etc, usually everyone is willing to help, if you don't approach people and ask you're only putting yourself at a disadvantage. Everyone is pretty community minded in the warm up rooms (well the GCs are anyway).

Another thing to mention is it always helps to know where you'll be lifting in your flight order wise other wise you will warm up too early/too late etc. Pay attention to how the other flights are going if there is any and what attempts they're up to, eg don't be doing your last warm up when they're still on second attempts etc.

All part of the experience on the day and you figure it out better the more comps you do.

Just go in ready to get to know everyone and don't be shy about asking

[maccaz]

i worried about this shit before hand too, bar height, warmups etc, but most people are in the same boat on the day so they make it super easy to understand, can't really go wrong and can always ask someone if you are unsure, heaps of ppl ask random questions

[teamfatboy]

Yep, what BeastBuilder said

The way the day will run is like this: we'll weigh everyone in two hours before lifting begins. Lifters will lift in "flights" of 10-14, based on weight bracket. The first flight(s) will be the women.

In the warm-up area, there will be several racks, set up for squat warm-ups. Group A (lighter women will warm-up first, and while they're competing, the second flight is warming-up, and so on. Once the last flight of the session is competing in the squat, the first round of bench can use the same equipment to warm-up for benchpress, and after the last lot of benchpress, the area is cleared to start warm-up for deadlifts.

In the warm-up area, if you see someone warming up on a weight you'd like to use, just ask to work-in with them. Offer to help load the next weight on the bar - once everyone's warmed up on 40, ask "who wants 50?". I understand from talking to people over the weekend that there'll be a lot of novices, so everyone will have the same issues even at the recent NZPF Nationals, where there were four racks in a very congested area, and some very fierce competition going on, everyone worked-in and got things done.

There will be plenty of announcements - the MC for the day will announce the lifting order for ach flight, and thru the day will call the lifting order (e.g. "Lisa is next, followed by Jessica then Alice" or "Tim is up next, followed by Travis then Hamish"). It will change, as people may opt to increase their lifts by different amounts. Depending on the set-up, there may be a monitor in the warm-up area for lifters to track progress for themselves.

[teamfatboy]

Entries close soon - 35 lifters already registered.

[teamfatboy]

Update: now 44 lifters registered

[Skeletor]

What's the rough timeframe between each lift . Like how many mins from my first squat to my second squat attempt? 44 lifters is awesome

[BeastBuilder]

What's the rough timeframe between each lift . Like how many mins from my first squat to my second squat attempt? 44 lifters is awesome

Between attempts would guess about 10-15 mins bro depending how quick the loaders are and how many people are in your flight

Between lifts probly an hour or two depending on how many flights, how quickly they change over, lunch breaks etc

[teamfatboy]

At this stage there's 15 women and 29 men, but some are doing the Bench champs, not the Novice Three Lift. That means it's likely that there would be one flight of women and two of men for the three-lift. The bench-only lifters will make up a fourth flight of bench only. As a rule, we'd split 16 or more into two flights of eight.

Each lifter gets a minute, so between your first and second lifts, probably around 15 minutes between attempts at squat. A full flight (3 lifts ea) of squats takes between 45m to an hour. Bench and deadlift are a lot quicker because there's less messing with rack heights etc.

[Skeletor]

Wow . I normally wait 4-5 mins max between attempts lol.

[teamfatboy]

Yep, the gaps are that long... Chance to get some simple sugars in, rehydrate, chill.

Make sure you've got something to keep warm in, tunes if you need them.

[teamfatboy]

Final lifter list: 55 (18 women, 37 men).

 

It's going to be an epic comp, but a long day, so lifters should ensure they have plenty of food

[Skeletor]

Wow that's awesome for the sport. So many people getting into it now. The records of today will be nothing in 5-10 years.

[Pseudonym]

So... how'd everyone go?

[teamfatboy]

So... how'd everyone go?

The full results will be out in a few days but there was some great lifting going on.  

 

I think we had about ten in the CDPA bench-only champs, including one equipped lifter with a 250kg bench...

 

In the three lift, a big flight of women from across the region was matched by two flights of guys.  There were some big teams - 10 from Hastings Fitness Centre, a similar sized contingent from Zenith Fitness, and I think Moveloveeat came over from Whanganui - i didn't get a chance to say g'day, I ended up spotter-loading for most of the day.  

 

Zenith gave us a great venue - sausage sizzle outside, decent warm-up area, although it got a bit cramped, I suspect, and enough room for a decent audience.  

 

I believe there'll be another comp in Palmerston before the end of the year - otherwise, the next comps are the equipped NZPF Champs at Powerhouse in Wellington in August, and the Powerhouse Open in November.

[moveloveeat]

When's the next one?

 

Yep I came over, was the lightest one there but looks as though I ended up getting second best lifter for female open which is great considering I wasn't feeling as strong as I would have liked on the deadlift and started with openers way too low for fear of

missing them! 

 

Was a great day, thanks to all the people who spotted/loaded/ref'd etc it would have been such a long day for them! 

[teamfatboy]

 

When's the next one?

 

Yep I came over, was the lightest one there but looks as though I ended up getting second best lifter for female open which is great considering I wasn't feeling as strong as I would have liked on the deadlift and started with openers way too low for fear of

missing them! 

 

Was a great day, thanks to all the people who spotted/loaded/ref'd etc it would have been such a long day for them! 

 

When I hear the dates, I'll post them  :yes: - I think a lot of people enjoyed themselves.   You really should plan to come to the PowerHouse open in November - BridieA did it last year - and went all the way to Nationals this year :jive:

 

I thought I recognised the CF Whanganui t-shirts, but was a little bit busy to stop and introduce myself - I was the geezer spotting one side of the ladies' squats (and centre-spotting the guys).  If I'm right, you had a very good squat as well.

 

Picking attempts can be costing, as one guy found out to his cost, failing all three of his deadlifts (and therefore not posting a total). 

[Skeletor]

The full results will be out in a few days but there was some great lifting going on.

Another comp in Palmy you say? Interesting. Would be very keen on this.

I think we had about ten in the CDPA bench-only champs, including one equipped lifter with a 250kg bench...

In the three lift, a big flight of women from across the region was matched by two flights of guys. There were some big teams - 10 from Hastings Fitness Centre, a similar sized contingent from Zenith Fitness, and I think Moveloveeat came over from Whanganui - i didn't get a chance to say g'day, I ended up spotter-loading for most of the day.

Zenith gave us a great venue - sausage sizzle outside, decent warm-up area, although it got a bit cramped, I suspect, and enough room for a decent audience.

I believe there'll be another comp in Palmerston before the end of the year - otherwise, the next comps are the equipped NZPF Champs at Powerhouse in Wellington in August, and the Powerhouse Open in November.

[Skeletor]

Aghhh dunno where that went but I'm keen in this next comp in palmy . If you hear any details let me know