Today is Wednesday - Friday I drive to the meet, weigh in, and I lift on Saturday. I haven't lifted much in the last few weeks, so I felt I needed to do something today:
DL: Narrow Sumo on the floor - I've come to realize that I ought to stick with narrow sumo, so I'm going to do that for the meet.
225 x 2 overhand
275 x 1 left under
295 x 1 right under (competition grip)
I put 315 on the bar, but I decided against pulling heavier today.
Overall, I felt my leg drive was good - for me, anyway - in all the pulls, and I'm already thinking - but as yet undecided - about my next lifting cycle.
The focus will be on some pressing for the next few weeks since I have to do those at the StrongFirst Barbell Cert July 12-14, and my bench press is maybe, barely what it needs to be for that. My standing overhead barbell press is strong enough - I think I've tripled my required weight - and everything else is relatively easy for me.
I also walked a bit today.
A few words on making weight - I have done the simple thing, namely eat moderately and good, wholesome food, for the last month or so, and my weight has comfortably dropped from about 154-155 to 151 this morning after nothing more than asparagus, a natural diuretic, as part of my dinner last night.
I started taking an herbal - "natural" - diuretic pill, X-Pel by MHP, this afternoon. You take 4 pills twice a day, so it will be this afternoon, twice tomorrow, and either once or twice on Friday. That's much less than recommended - they suggest a week - because I'm starting so close to my goal weight.
I would like to come in at 147 even or so for this meet's weigh-in because I want to lift at 145 in the international meets of the USAPL, and the weight classes are different: 66 kg instead of 67.5, or 145 lbs. instead of 148.75. I feel perfectly fine and not like I've been denying myself.
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