May 11th I will be partaking in my first powerlifting competition! It's a small push/pull meet in the Indianapolis area, close to where I live. I plan on doing this one just to get my feet wet and then do a full meet over the summer.
Last week I took a full recovery week. I felt like I had probably been over training a bit and a little rest was very beneficial to me. I did light recovery workouts all week, incorporating a lot of band work and a few bike sprints for light conditioning. I'm the type that has a hard time resting but I knew how imperative recovery was at that point so I made myself relax a bit (ha).
This past Sunday started my new cycle of training. After doing several cycles of 5/3/1 (and having GREAT success with it), Brandon and I decided to switch me over the the Cub Method for the 8 or so weeks I have before my competition. My workouts Sunday and Monday were awesome, but incredibly challenging. With the cube method, I'm trying out some things that I haven't do for quite sometime. For example, on Sunday, the program called for me to do 2x15 on bench. I'm so used to doing typically no more than 5 reps, so even though I think I only had 70 pounds on the bar, I was struggling by the end of that and definitely feeling it the next day! Big challenge #2 occurred on Monday. I started with deadlifts, which went very well! However, for squats I had to do 3x8 @ 50%. Doesn't sound bad at all, right? The catch was I had to do it in Olympic stance, something that I clearly need to work on. That was definitely the hardest part of my workout even though it was only 100 lbs on my back.
As far as my diet goes, I've also switched that up a bit as well. I've switched from carb backloading to carb nite. Basically, I have one night a week where I eat carbs and the rest of the time I am very low carb. I'm starting to adjust to the change (thankfully). Life without carbs was rough there for the first few days. My weight is down a couple pounds so I think carb nite was a positive change for me to make.
I'm very excited to see how all these changes work for me. Competition day is getting closer and closer and I'm ready to work hard and reach the goals I have set for myself.
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