I have a request for you guys. Next week I will begin training for a powerlifting meet in October. My church is in the process of raising money to pay off our indebtedness. I am asking members of the church to sponser me for the meet meaning that they will donate 1 penny per pound of my total for the meet to that fund. For example...if I total 1500 lbs in the meet they will donate $15.00. What I am asking of you is that for every day(starting 6/26/7) up until and including the day of the meet that you pray for me. That I will stay injury free and total a drug free "elite" which is 1630 lbs. Any that are willing to make this commitment please respond to this post. Thank You.

Will pray for you Jim...



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you got it bro.........good luck

Thanks guys.

Just saw this. I will pray for this and for your goal of indebtedness.

An update...

I had to put the October meet on hold due to a conflict with vacations, work,etc. I have rescheduled everything and am planning a meet in Feb of 2008 so I'm still going after it. On the plus side, when our church started working on this fundraising project in March we owed a total of about $65,000 which includes everything we owe for...property,vans,etc. As of this morning our debt is down to $42,000!!!

Happy training, dude!

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if I total 1500 lbs

I hope you get there! What weight class and how do you anticipate your lifts will arrive at that total?

That 1500 total was just an example. My best total in a meet a couple of years ago was 1320 so 1500 would be a good goal. I'm kind of looking at a 600 squat, 425 bench and 450 deadlift(1475 total) at 198.

That's still big stuff! Good luck!
My Jul7 2008 goal is 1200 @ 181 with this split

425 - 325 - 450

The squat will be a matter of will (cause I hate squatting), but I think I can get it.

The BP will be a matter of getting my training and technique down.

The DL will be a matter of health. I LOVE pulling but have to take care. I have a lower back "thingy" that's never been bad, just an annoyance that when I'm careful leaves me alone...but when it flares up can stop any progress cold. If I'm careful I believe 450 is the least I'll pull....

Man, I'm glad we got some lifters here. It's fun talking weights without all the madness and ego that the lifting boards have...

What kind of routine do you follow?I can start posting my training if anyone is interested. You can post yours as well. We could get some feedback from each other.

I started another thread a couple months ago (you responded to that one) and I've been recently giving updates.

I got the "bug" again a few months ago but wanted to get down to 180 (I was a soft 200) and then start over. I've been doing some decidedly non-powerlifting type workouts just to build mental toughness, stamina, and muscle. Starting Nov 1 the real work begins. I'll still do things a little "different" but I'm positive for me this way will work.

I plan on using very little rest (less than a minute between sets) and just crushing the body part in 20-30 minutes. It will have a bodybuilding tempo but I'll be doing traditional PL movements and one or two "helper" excercises per training session.

For instance....on DL day I'll do a warm up set then two all out working sets. IF the second set leaves anything left (IE - I got too many reps) I'll go up in weight and do one more set. Then I'll do either one or two sets of Power Cleans or Stiff Legged DLs or something else that works the posterior. Then maybe some heavy ab work.

That's it! I've found with my metabolism (slowwwww) and my recovery time (long) I just don't need to spend all day lifting. I learned this last summer. My partner and I started lifting at lightning speed. The first set was the "money" set and the rest were just about finding that weak link and hammering it. With little to no rest I've found that my weakest link will rise to the surface. If I rest too long my stronger muscles will recover in time to cheat and carry the load. With the way I'm doing it now the strongest link gets nailed first and then the additional sets are all about digging for the weak guys. The con is that it's exhausting....the pro is that I'm done in 30 minutes or less. I now spend less than 90 minutes a week lifting and I'm about this close to the best shape of my life. Now I just have to be patient and trust my system to get stronger. I'm tweaking my eating to get the most out of 181 I can. Eating has always been the hardest for me but lately I've been in a groove and I'm excited about seeing how things play out. It's almost like a self-science experiment!

Man, thanks for chatting. I lost my lifting partner (he got transfered) and I have no one else to talk to this about. It's cool that there are some lifters here!