Targets Acquired

[digitaldiscipline]

So, depending on which governing body my meet(s) are sanctioned by in 2017, there's a nontrivial bullseye on my radar:

The IPL world fucking record in the 165# Master's division (40-44) deadlift (both as part of the three-lift powerlifting thing[1], and as a standalone thing[2], though I'll need to figure out what the distinction is). I may need to find an IPL-sanctioned meet at which to compete to make one or both of these a reality.

The USPA's American records for full meet[3] and single-lift[4] are slightly higher, because there is a somewhat different weigh-in protocol, but they're also solidly in my sights. These are definitely the federation in which I am competing at the meet in March (though I am less certain if I'm going to do the May meet; I may recalibrate my lifting competition schedule based on how that shakes out).

At the "mock meet" on Sunday, my putative deadlift performance would have looked like this:
- 1st lift, 515# (good)
- 2nd lift, 545# (no lift)
- 3rd lift, 545# (good)
- 4th lift (allowed when going for a record), 565# (good*)

* good enough, per my coaches, for a gym lift, but I would need to hold it at lockout longer than I did to get "good lift" in competition, but their expert consensus is that the meet excitement would have made that a near-certainty.

[1] Currently @ 242.5kg (534#)
[2] Currently vacant, with a 232.5kg (513#) bar to entry
[3,4] Currently @ 250kg (551#)

Comments

[silentq.livejournal.com]

Set back due to foot injury, ramping up again now though!
I also own a basement now, and am pondering a barbell set up.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Craigslist is how i started. if you can get a bench and a rack/cage, that's sufficient (i actually lifted, including squats, in my bench press setup for years, which, uh, is part of why my squat still sucks).

[silentq.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's my plan, but I need to look at clearance before looking at anything taller than a bench press rack (there are some beams that are lower than the rest of the ceiling). My squats suck, trying to work on mobility in the interim.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Most of the ones i've encountered for home / non-commercial gym use are between 84-90" high, but i can take a tape measure to mine later today (I have both an open half-rack and a full rack, but i think they're both about the same height, and the half rack definitely fit in my house with room to spare despite my ceilings being on the short side of 90" (7.5')

[silentq.livejournal.com]

Hrm, I think between beams I have just about 90", but I still need to take a tape measure down there and check the beam to beam distance as well.