Tonight was my last night at the Horncastle Powerlifting Club. Definitely going to miss training with these guys in an environment like this. I'm gonna have to make some excuses to come back up here.
The coach, Marc Giles, had everyone's numbers written down for the evening. Now, last week I got a PB single of 172.5kg. Walked in today and read, "175x2". ****.
Squats:
60x5
100x2
140x2
155x2
165x2 (PB double)
175x1f (PB single, was trying to double though)
Deadlift:
60x5
100x2
125x2
140x2
160x2
180x5 (PB)
That 175 double attempt, was so... so, soooo ****ing close. I was out of the hole, just had to lock out. But I got out of the groove and just had nothing left. Gutted for a while, but was happy for the PB anyway.
Marc thought my shins were a little too vertical and thought I'd benefit from stepping slightly away from the bar and sitting a little lower to use more quad. It flew up. Was only supposed to double 180, but went for 5 and there was easily another 1-2 reps left. I've only ever tripled 180 so that's another PB there.