A little about me

I have competed in both Olympic Weightlifting and Bench-Only Lifting. I competed in Olympic Lifting as a kid. Best lifts of 255 Olympic Press, 225 Snatch, 255 Clean & Jerk. I met many of the great lifters and coaches from the 60's and 70's. After a 20-year break to serve my country I started lifting regularly again and competing in Bench-Only. Best Lift: 419lbs "equipped".

Feel free to follow along on the adventure...

Steve Denning

3/22/09

Tbone Strength Update

I'm out of the State meet, in terms of competing anyway. In doing circa max training yesterday to just work up to my openers in the squat bench and deadlift, I was working up to my planned opener of 650 in the squat and when I was working up to about 495, in coming up, my left hamstring made a huge popping sound and I had to basically Good Morning the weight up. After a quick doctors trip, I didn't tear anything (Thank God) but I did pull it fairly good and I have a huge knot in the middle of my hammy. I'll be attending to help out Steve, but I guess I'll be qualifying for Nationals at the San Diego meet in May. I was going to try to do bench only at this meet after my hamstring but in today trying to bench, it just wasn't happening, I had a hard time with 405 touching to a 2 board because I use so much leg drive while benching, it just wasn't happening.

I'll get to Nationals, and I'll get my 2000 pound total.

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