GPC Bench Comp 2009

Hanley · 20-09-2009 3:49pm #1

So here's my story...

Anyone's that's friends with me on FB will know I've been walking a tight line with my weight coming into this comp. I started dieting months ago with the intention of coming in at 100kg. I've been tracking my morning and evening weight for the last week trying to estimate what I'd need to be the day before to come in at 100kg.

I was 103.5kg on Thursday night, 100.9kg on Friday morning, 103kg that evening and 99.9kg yesterday morning. Might sound good, but that was a obvious sign I was going to come in too light. Was 100kg bang on around 6pm and t's hard to force yourself to eat and drink knowing you've a weigh in the next day but thankfully I'd a good friend in my ear saying the right things. Got up to 101kg last night, 100kg on the button this morning before I left, and 99.81kg at weigh in.

Managed to get myself to 103.1kg by the time I started to warm up 2 hours later thanks to copious amounts of Diaorlyte, water, lucozade, chicken sandwiches, red bull and a cookie.

The bench, bar and plates were absolutely perfect so I knew I'd no excuse if I didn't come out of it lifting well. Got my warm ups going well and settled into a nice groove early.

Took;
190kg for my first attempt, hit it easily.
200kg for my second attempt and a double bodyweight bench, hit it stronger than the 190.
205kg for my third, and it was the best of the lot.

Decided to put my balls on the line and go for 210kg @ 100kg as a juinor lifter on a 4th attempt. I won't say I hit it strongly, but it was a clean press straight to lockout for a 30kg competition PR at 100kg, and 20kg absolute PR. I think it may be the highest ever competition bench done across any weight in the Republic by a junior lifter, but am not 100% sure.

Pretty stoked with my performance today. It was frickin awesome going 4 for 4 after bombing out badly on the bench at the IDFPA nationals last April. It leaves me set up for a really good total coming into next year now. The best part about today was how solid all my lifting was. Everything hit the groove perfectly and I just felt ultra comfortable on all the attempts.

Gotta say thanks to Transform for helping me out with my shoulder problems over the last couple of weeks, his advice really helped me out and allowed me to perform at my full potential today.

Major shout out goes to Ger, Mic and Trish for travelling down with me and helping out. The difference it makes having experienced guys like Ger and Mic around is unreal. It just makes everything so much easier, all ya have to worry about it lying on the bench and pressing.

I've videos uploading, and courtesy of Trish there'll probably be photos rolling in over the next while too!!

Inspector Coptoor · 20-09-2009 4:13pm

well done.
serious pressing.

podge57 · 20-09-2009 4:30pm

nice job, youll have 500lbs next year!

Sounds like everything went to plan, cant ask for much better than that

What was the biggest bench of the day?

mdc5065 · 20-09-2009 4:31pm

Monstrous lifts, buddy. Congratulations on achieving all that. Regardless of whether it was record-breaking, reading about it made me have a "holy sh!t" moment... and serious jealousy haha.

Hanley · 20-09-2009 4:36pm

Thanks lads!!

Podge, biggest bench went to Mark Braniff w/ 255kg I think. Couple of attempts with 280kg outta one of the Belfast lads too.

Hanley · 20-09-2009 4:38pm

Some vids of my day;

190kg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aini-Je1o6g

200kg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHWX0Ns4gfY

205kg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAygtEDCvwM

210kg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHIXCIV-NPE

brutusthebarber · 20-09-2009 4:53pm

Savage pressing man.. Well done!!

cardio,shoot me · 20-09-2009 6:30pm

congrats man! serious pressin there, the 205 looked like a piece of piss!

Noffles · 20-09-2009 6:34pm

Great benching there, as someone who weighs 86k and can bench 130k it puts in perspective how strong we think we are! Good work!

Jarren · 20-09-2009 6:49pm

Your are unreal man!!!!

Congrats !!!

I dont even know what to say(words get stuck in my throat)

You are the man James:)

cardio,shoot me · 20-09-2009 6:50pm

jarecki1976 wrote: »

Your are unreal man!!!!

not to mention the hair:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

abceire · 20-09-2009 7:08pm

cardio,shoot me wrote: »

not to mention the hair:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

good work, motivates me to do more, what ages is junior class

are there many comps like this on, i d like to go see one

Hanley · 20-09-2009 7:33pm

jarecki1976 wrote: »

Your are unreal man!!!!

Congrats !!!

I dont even know what to say(words get stuck in my throat)

You are the man James:)

Haha thanks, that's nice!

cardio,shoot me wrote: »

not to mention the hair:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

You shut up, that's probably more than your subtotal.

abceire wrote: »

good work, motivates me to do more, what ages is junior class

are there many comps like this on, i d like to go see one

Junior's til the day ya turn 24.

Generally 8-10 comps on around the country per year. Next big one's National Single Lift champs in Jan/Feb. Probably gonna be in Rathcoole. Where are ya based?

cardio,shoot me · 20-09-2009 7:35pm

shut up you hanley! there was a non sarcastic nice comment there earlier, and yea your squat probably is

abceire · 20-09-2009 7:41pm

Hanley wrote: »

Haha thanks, that's nice!

You shut up, that's probably more than your subtotal.

Junior's til the day ya turn 24.

Generally 8-10 comps on around the country per year. Next big one's National Single Lift champs in Jan/Feb. Probably gonna be in Rathcoole. Where are ya based?

cool i ll try make that one, i used to live up that way,i m only 75ish kgs myself but like lifting for exercise and to get rid of stress, i was away fo a bit and lost weight and stenght but i ll get back there,i used a old school gym in finland,some big strong guys there,guy about 65 70 (age) doing 100kg squats

BossArky · 20-09-2009 8:35pm

Good work. Nice to see the muscle up didn't take anything out of you on Saturday!

Kev M · 20-09-2009 8:41pm

:eek:........... Respect

Remmy · 20-09-2009 8:53pm

Damn!Fairplay man that is Deadly!

Silly question but...Is there single lift comps for the deadlift in Ireland?

cardio,shoot me · 20-09-2009 8:56pm

single lifts in february, for all lifts remmy, you can pick and choose!

Remmy · 20-09-2009 9:06pm

cardio,shoot me wrote: »

single lifts in february, for all lifts remmy, you can pick and choose!

cool!something to shoot for.Is there a website With info on this?

cardio,shoot me · 20-09-2009 9:07pm

there is but i cant for the life of me remember, its something like the idfpa.com i think

_JOE_ · 20-09-2009 9:19pm

cardio,shoot me wrote: »

there is but i cant for the life of me remember, its something like the idfpa.plus.com/ i think

FYP

gabgab · 20-09-2009 9:42pm

Good man yourself James,

Where did you go for grub afterwards??

:D Was funny chatting to you on sat about cutting water,

celestial · 20-09-2009 10:38pm

Nice work dude - great to see it all came together for ya on the day.

Hanley · 20-09-2009 11:43pm

gabgab wrote: »

Good man yourself James,

Where did you go for grub afterwards?? :D Was funny chatting to you on sat about cutting water,

Hahaha yeah you seemed amazed I was drinking water to cut water!! It was horrible, Saturday was such a balancing act.

Mellor · 21-09-2009 1:39am

great for you Hanley, but seriously, this threads just makes me feel bad about myself, I hope you can live with that!!!!!!!!!!

Kev. · 21-09-2009 2:35am

well done pal thats impressive.....

Transform · 21-09-2009 7:25am

seriously impressive and delighted the shoulder held together for you.

big respect and where to from here?

Hanley · 21-09-2009 8:35am

Mellor,

I think I can just about live with myself alright!!

Transform wrote: »

seriously impressive and delighted the shoulder held together for you.

big respect and where to from here?

Thanks a million!!!

The plan's to work the hell out of my top end bench strength with lots of band and boards work and take a crack at 220kg @ 100kg before the year end. Gonna experiment with a few different things like shirted work with boards (I normally do it raw) and band presses with the shirt on (again, normally do it raw).

Oh that and a sub 4 minute Fran and 10 bar muscle ups, of course!!!!

daveywavey08 · 21-09-2009 8:37am

Well done, brah! Fantastic benching xxx

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 21-09-2009 8:59am

Congrats Hanley, the mantle piece must be getting fairly crowded now...

Vegeta · 21-09-2009 9:17am

Well done H, I could only dream of a bench like that.

Hell if I could lift half that I would be happy

Hanley · 21-09-2009 6:00pm

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

Congrats Hanley, the mantle piece must be getting fairly crowded now...

Lolz it's getting embarassing at this stage. I think I'm just gonna start throwing them in boxes.

Hanley · 21-09-2009 6:20pm

Here's a few pics from the day;

I'll update with more as I get em.

cardio,shoot me · 21-09-2009 6:40pm

wow. you drank alot of water!

kevpants · 21-09-2009 9:29pm

Haven't had much time to get on here but fair play boyo ya set down your goals and hit them.

At least now you can concentrate on proper lifts and leave the benching to the "it's all you" crowd

Hanley · 21-09-2009 9:36pm

kevpants wrote: »

Haven't had much time to get on here but fair play boyo ya set down your goals and hit them.

At least now you can concentrate on proper lifts and leave the benching to the "it's all you" crowd

Hahaha cheers!! Gotta find me a deadlift somewhere.

I'm just gonna concentrate on actually getting my lifts instead of just talking about them!

t-ha · 21-09-2009 11:27pm

Hanley wrote: »

210kg @ 100kg as a juinor lifter on a 4th attempt.

Jaysus that's a monster bench! Congrats.

GPC Bench Comp 2009

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