First Time Competing...

[steve_d]

Just curious... Did you have to cut water to make this weight? If so, how did you find the strength while 'dehydrated'? I know sometimes it can take its toll, depending on how long you lift after weigh in.

By the sounds of it, the 245 was probably very close! Even though it didn't count, its good to know that the strength was there and with 'meet lifting' experience, those numbers will fly up. Good job on the deadlift too! Always fun when you can set PRs during a meet. Placings don't matter. PRs matter. I suspect that your deadlift numbers will fly well into the 500s by june. In a year or two, I wouldn't be surprised to see deadlifts in the upper 500s and bench over 300. These are very good numbers to be hitting raw!

Do you plan on getting into equipped lifting in the future?

[DaveFinistauri]

Hey Steve,

I've been eating pretty clean since January, so making weight wasn't an issue at all. Only thing I did different on the day of the meet was hold off on breakfast till after the weigh in to make sure I was under 110. The biggest thing I had trouble with was the length of the day. Didn't prepare enough food to last the day, and was limited to eating protein bars and trail mix for like 6 hours! Took a scoop of Decimate about 10 minutes before my first deadlift attempt, and I felt a real nice burst of energy and adrenalline which I think contributed to the PR.

No plans at the moment to ever switch to equipped lifting, just want to keep getting stronger. That may change though - 6 months ago I never thought I would have competed in powerlifting at all, and here I am! The support and encouragement that was offered to me throughout the meet, and this whole process really has been awesome. I'm hooked!

[Talo]

Good job ! Maybe you were disappointed with your bench, but at least you got it I did the something in my first raw comp with the bench to , but I missed my first 2 lifts and that becomes stressful- LOL . Then You had an amazing deadlift so that balanced things out.

There is also a meet coming up on May 12th in Scarborough for 100% raw federation. They usually put on a good meet maybe you could look into that or if you want to come out west we are having one in June

[Thorgrim]

Thanks for sharing your experience Dave. Glad you had a good time even though your bench didn't quite pan out the way you wanted. Way to go on the DL PR!

[DaveFinistauri]

Got this photo today from one of the people at the meet. This action shot alone was worth the price of entry hahaha. I look like an angry motherf**ker LOL