My powerlifting experience so far...

Blitzkrieg · Jul 22, 2007

A couple of weeks ago I started powerlifting and I didn't realize exactly how different it was from what I'd been doing before. After my first day of squats my hip flexors were sore for a week (I'd never gone wide stance or below parallel before), after deadlifting my back was so tight I couldn't bend over to put on my shoes, socks, or underwear (that was an experience) for 3 days after

... Bench didn't leave me crippled like the rest but I'm having to unlearn everything I've been doing for the past 3 years (as I was told by my coach, "you bench like a bodybuilder" LOL!) and try to remember to keep my elbows flared and to plant my feet. It's truly a different beast, and so far I'm having a blast

I'm hoping to be ready to compete by the end of the year. I just hope I took enough time off since my last cycle to let my receptors normalize before starting up again. I started about a week or 2 before I was planning to since the first meet I really want to try for is 2 months away.

Just wanted to share...

Dad · Jul 22, 2007

Blitz,

On the bench, don't yuo want to keep yuor elbows in and push off the lats? Arms flared out is, I think, more for working pecs a la bodybuilding.

I'm not the expert here as it's been a LONG time since I competed as a powerlifter, but my wife (Mom here) is a comptitive powerlifter, and we've been talking with Louie Simmons and going over his training tapes. He always says, "We teach our people to bench close and squat wide."

Still working all this out, of course...

Keep us posted on yuor progress!

Nytol · Jul 23, 2007

Dad said:
Blitz,

On the bench, don't yuo want to keep yuor elbows in and push off the lats? Arms flared out is, I think, more for working pecs a la bodybuilding.

I'm not the expert here as it's been a LONG time since I competed as a powerlifter, but my wife (Mom here) is a comptitive powerlifter, and we've been talking with Louie Simmons and going over his training tapes. He always says, "We teach our people to bench close and squat wide."

Still working all this out, of course...

Keep us posted on yuor progress!