The Miseducation of Jimbo Slice

100kg EXACTLY on my home scales this morning. Damn I'm good.

Recording my GPC comp for posterity;

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!!

Some vids of my day;

190kg


200kg


205kg


210kg

Power Clean - 110kg x2 (3rd set)

the drifter wrote: »

oh well your just freaking awsome arent you! pri*k

You, of ALL people, should know my feelings on that.

the drifter wrote: »

i do...every day i hate you more and more...

Well... that's fair enough. I am getting closer and closer to the Holy Trinity of awesomeness every single day.

cardio,shoot me wrote: »

dont worry, its not just drifter that hates you!

Must be doing something right so!!

kevpants wrote: »

What's that then?

Powerlifter, auditor and crossfitter?

I'll tell ya when I see ya!!

podge57 wrote: »

lol, what are 3OH!3 Curls? I know who 3OH!3 are...

Two reasons..

1) They're incredibly ghey
2) 3 seconds up, no pause at the top, 3 seconds down - 3-0-3 in T-nation speak

BossArky wrote: »

Pendlay is actually a person?!

I thought they were called Pendlay rows cos it was something to do with a pendulum!

Lolz yah... Glenn Pendlay - US weightlifting coach!!

Another Fun Workout...

Power Snatches:
40kg x3
50kg x2
60kg 2x2
65kg x1
70kg x1
75kg x0 -

Power Jerks:
60kg x3
80kg x2
90kg x2
100kg x2
105kg x0
105kg x1
110kg x1
115kg 2x0 - grrr!!

Close Grip Bench:
60kg x5
80kg x3
100kg x3
110kg x3
120kg x3
130kg x1
135kg x1
140kg x1 - PR

Rolling Dumbbell Extenstions:
15kg 'bells 4x12

Simulated Stone Lifts (Diesel Crew style):
70kg 4x3

CrossFit September Invitational Workout 2 - 75kg clean and jerks, as many reps as possible in 3 minutes:
22 reps

Inverted Rows w/ pause @ top:
3x6

Sweet little workout today.... The snatches weren't great at all to be honest. I've never really been good at the exercise. My cleans came on fairly quickly with practice so I'll keep workin on em and hope they come up too.

The power jerks are just fun. Such a snappy fluid movement when you get it right. I deffo have the potential to go over 120kg very soon with these once I make a few tweaks. I think the main issues I have are that sometimes I push the bar out in front a bit instead of straight up, my elbows are "soft" at the top so I'm not locking out solidly, and supporting the weight over head feels pretty weight, and again I'm soft/not locked in.

The CGBP's were sweet today... my chest was pretty fatigued still from all the pec work during the week and could feel it being pulled at all the way thru. My triceps seemed to be firing really well today. Could feel them twitching like mad all thru the reps. Was considering 130 x3 but I felt too good not to go for an all time single PR with them so held a bit back. Hit 135 a bit shakily, but basd on the 130 that preceeded it I knew 140 should go.... and it did!!

Rolling extenstions in lieu of any board work today to give my everything a bit of a break coming off the comp at the weekend. Nice movement just go get everything stretched out and the blood flowing.

The simulated atlas stone lift is great fun. Serious exercise for erector strength + back thickness as well, which is probably my number one weak point at this stage.

Decided I'd do the CF workout at the end of my session so no one could give out about me being fresh... i think i was sufficiently tired at that stage Bit disappointed I didn't get some more reps in. Just watched the vid of it and cut it about 8 seconds short so I woulda had time for another one. I knew I'd go over 20, and was sorta thinking 25 might happen. I'll come back to it in a few weeks and try again.

The inverted rows worked well with the pause. The only real reason I'm doing em is to keep my shoulders healthy so I'm not too worried about trying to load them or anything.

Now... to go eat the sh!t outta some BBQ while my CF vid uploads!!