Jack

NE Regionals recap: I had my first bad meet and I’m happy about it!
5/9
597.5 @99.5

Squat: 1/3
215kgs / 474lbs (-10kg mpr)

Bench 2/3
142.5kgs / 314lbs (-2.5kg mpr)

Deadlift 2/3
240kgs / 529lbs (-10kg mpr)

It’s such a cliche to drop the good old “meet didn’t go as planned” and I’m happy I finally get to use it. Just had a bad day, things didn’t align but it is what it is. There were a lot of small and big factors that were not positively contributing, such as a 7 person flight (right above threshold for slowing loading), 3 meets within 7 months, and a moderate knee injury for the last 4 weeks of prep. Plus having to unrack, rerack (plates were sliding off) and unrack again my atpr (227.5/501) within the span of 20 secs wasn’t very beneficial for squats. Turns out Advil only works to a certain point lol. There’s still things to be proud of tho, as more than one occasion I really thought about dropping out or quitting powerlifting from the burnout I was experiencing, so to just make it to meet day and finish with a total is something.

@ericthestrong as always thank you, I wouldn’t have made it to this meet had it not been for you and your coaching, and even on a bad day we totaled almost 100kgs over what I did when we began together. Now it’s time to get swole

Lastly big thanks to @agent21emh @andrewgraves212 for running a great meet, along with all the spotters and loaders and myriad of other refs and workers.

If you’re still reading you’re beautiful people and I hope you have a great day