Wednesday 27th May 2026

Walk
Warmups

Bench: warmups, 150x5x2

Block pulls (15): warmups, 250x1, 190x7x2

Notes

Bleh, felt cold today, and still quite sore/fatigued from Monday.  But things moved ok.  Need to get better on the single but its just resetting for this block.

Monday 25th May 2026

Walk

Warmups

Feet up bench: warmups, 130x7x3

SSB Squat: warmups, 205x1, 180x4x4

Close grip pin press: warmups, 120x5x2

Notes

Cold, but things moved ok.  SSB is heavy.  

Saturday 23rd May 2026

Walk

Warmups

Bench: warmups, 150x4x4

Closegrip pulldowns: 50x12x5

Closegrip bench: warmups, 140x5x2

Notes

Quick session before heading away for the afternoon.  Nice and cruisy.  

Friday 22nd May 2026

Walk
Warmups

Squats: warmups, 170x7x2

TKE: Gx20x3

Notes

"quick" session, but felt deadlifts from Wednesday, lower back at least.  Legs felt tired.  But moved ok and ticked more work.

Wednesday 20th May 2026

Walk
Warmups

Bench: warmups, 145x5x2

Block pull (15): warmups, 240x1, 180x7

Y flyes, pushup plus

Notes

Was ok for being tired.  Deadlift still feels eh, but better than last week - but also less ROM than last week.  Reps.  Bleh.  

Monday 18th May 2026

Walk

Warmups
Feetup Bench: warmups, 125x7x2

SSB Squat: warmups, 200x1, 175x4x3

CG Pin Press: warmups, 110x5x2

Y flyes

Chins: BWx5x3

Notes

Feeling better this week.  Nothing too hard, but the ssb was feeling pretty heavy.  

Saturday 16th May 2026

Walk

Warmups

Bench: warmups, 145x4x3

Pulldowns: 50x12, 70x8x3

Closegrip: 120x5x3

Y flyes, pushup+

Notes

Not a hard session, quite a nice session.  Things moved ok.

Friday 15th May 2026

Walk

Warmups

Squats: warmups, 160x7x2

TKE: Gx20x3

Notes

Bleh, didn't feel hard, didn't feel great.

Wednesday 13th May 2026

Walk

Warmups

Bench: warmups, 140x5x2

Deadlifts: warmups, 220x1

Notes

Bleh.  Should has a little pain, but not bad.  Don't know if the body wants to go wider grip yet.
Deadlifts were dead.  Just did not feel like moving.  

Monday 11th May 2026

Walk

Warmups

Feetup Bench: warmups, 120x7x2

SSB squat: warmups, 180x1, 160x4x2

CG pin press: warmups, 100x5x2

Banded flyes: Bx20x4

Rev grip pulldowns: 50x12x4

Notes

Ok for a starting point.  

Saturday 9th May 2026

Walk

Warmups

Bench: warmups, 140x4x2

Closegrip: 100x5x3

Pulldowns: 50x12x3

Y Flyes

Notes
Still feeling quite tired.

Wednesday 6th May 2026

Warmups
Feetup Bench: warmups, 100x7x3

Closegrip pin press: 60x5x5

Notes

Just getting some movement in.

I gripped the bar at middle finger, tried a warmup at index but it felt weird, so not quite ready for that.  

New Zealand Powerlifting Federation Masters National Powerlifting Championships, ASB Showgrounds, Tāmaki Makaurau

Not quite the ending I wanted, but I still did well.

Woke early, got my day started and then went for a walk, followed by leaving Palmy at 9am, and traveling up behing Maunga Ruhapehu, visiting Gollums Pool, and arriving just after 5 to the accomodation and walking to the venue to check the scales. 

Slept like rotten garbage, 4hrs 19minutes according to my watch, but woke constantly, some idiot starting his Harley up next to my room at 2am, and onwards.  Finally woke at 4.40, and decided to check the weight which was a bit too heavy (600g or so).  So did the normal things and it didn't budge.  So, cranked the shower up to max hot, and let the sweating begin, which took the weight down quickly, followed by a little additional sweating to the venue and while waiting to weigh in. 

119.65kg 

Two other M2 120s weighed in as well.

Lifting started at 8am, but I was in the second flight, so did my walk, and slowly warmed up tp my final warmup at 220kg.  This moved fine.

Squat

1st: 240kg.  Three white lights, even though commentry online was concerned.  Heaviest opener I have done since geared days.

2nd: 255kg.  Three white lights, not so easy, but deep.

3rd: 260kg.  Three white lights.  Hard, but deep.  Heaviest weight I have squatted ever in competition.  

Happy with squats.  My competition lifted the NZ record at 269.  So 9kg ahead.  Bench warmups were relaxed and moved well.

Bench

1st: 175kg.  Three whites.

2nd: 182.5kg.  Two white lights, dont know what hit the right hand side with a yellow.  

3rd: 187.5kg.  Drifted towards my belly, and lost position.  No lift.

Not so happy here, and it basically helped undermine the entire day.  Bench didn't really feel great at the top end of prep, and it did not fire here.  Competition hit 172.5kg, so I was up by 1kg on the subtotal.  Deadlift warmups were ok but feeling the lack of sleep.

Deadlift

1st: 267.5kg.  Had attempted to move up a little before this but got told no (i think they might have been wrong really), but either way, this put me at 710 to the competitions 711.5.

2nd: 285.5kg.  NZ M2 record.  Three white lights.  Hard.  I jumped more than the competition, so this put me to 728kg to 726.5kg, so up 1.5kg.  

3rd.  Went to 293kg.  While competition went to 300.  In hindsight, I should ahve gone 300 as well.  I walked up and tugged it, and while this pushed him to a deadlift higher than he needed to win, he completed 295 so won with 736.5.  If I had pushed to 300, he may hve had to do that weight and potentially got it or not.  He likely had that, but hard to tell.  

So ended with a new PB of 728kg.

I also ended with a new squat PB, new comp max deadlift.  New WCPA M2 squat, deadlift and total record, plus new WCPA M1 Deadlift and Total record.  I now have 4/5 M1 records, including bench, deadlift, total, and Bench only, plus all of the WCPA M2 records squat, bench, deadlift and bench only.  

12 Overall Master, 2nd M2.

No real plan until next year.  

Might be working towards a coach.  I certainly needed another head to do these last calculations, which I haven't needed before.