2011 SPF Pro/Am Meet Report

I headed out to the meet on Friday morning. Got to the hotel and checked in around noon, then headed over to get weighed in. The venue for this meet was awesome. Huge space, lots of seats, and a massive warmup room. 3 mono’s, 3 benchs/platforms even though I didn’t need to use either.

Woke up the day of the meet feeling really well, confident. Took a contrast shower and did some rolling and headed over to the venue. Got there around 8 a.m. I was in the third flight. Warmup’s felt off until 400+ was on the bar. I was really having trouble staying warm, because I’m used to squatting in 80+ degree weather. Need to bring more clothes to make sure to stay warm. Flights had lots of lifters so there were big rest periods between attempts.

My flight came up and I opened with 765. It wasn’t hard at all, but I started out forward with it and didn’t feel I needed to re-rack(which I ended up doing with my 2nd) Went down, dipped and for sure thought I had buried it well deeper than most of the squats I had seen passed that day. 2-1 No Lift. Got a white from the side, and red from head judge and the other side judge. Little disappointing but as soon as I got out from under the bar, it was out of my head. Brian came over and told me I needed to go up and not take it again because it definitely wasn’t a strength problem.

So I took 800 on my second. My setup was really off and I had to re-rack the weight. I’m not sure if my foot placement was wider than normal or what, but it just didn’t want to come out of the rack. Took it down smooth, dipped (as best I can) and brought it back up, for sure thinking this was good, I tried to bury it. Same lights as before. This was frustrating but I had to get over it and move onto my 3rd attempt.
Took 800 again on my third and it was just an ugly attempt. Knee’s came in, drifted in the hole. The one positive was I brought 800 up once again. BOMB!

I’m going to start this out by saying, bombing was no ones fault but mine. Do I agree whether my calls were fair? Not really, but the judges did the best they could. It was a weekend full of awesome lifting and I am glad I decided to do this meet.

My programing from Brian was great. I felt stronger than ever and it sucks I couldn’t get through the meet. I was feeling good and for sure thought I had a 500 bench in me that day. I just want to say thanks to my family for all the support, Dave Tate and Mike Robertson for putting together such awesome facilities and allowing me to train at them. All my training partners, you really pushed me the last 10 weeks, I appreciate it all.

I’m not sure when the next meet is going to be, but I will be deciding this week. I have a few different things to fix and I’m sure that if I put in the work, and focus on the thigns outside the gym that are holding me down, I can improve on this training cycle and hit some bigger numbers. Thanks again