Now that summer is winding down, there are some good local power lifting competitions on the calendar for the next few months. I've actually been keeping an eye on the competition for the last year or so, looking at what is enough to send someone home with a trophy or medal or whatever while I steadily increase my strenth.
I won't be changing much about my workouts since making the decision last week to compete, except to do fewer reps on my last few sets so that I will have a good idea of my 1RM (one rep maximum) for each exercise by the time I compete. Since June, I have been getting a massage every other week, which helps a lot with muscle recovery and has helped my shoulders a lot (which is good for bench).
So...here's the plan. Sept. 13 is the Pacific Open Bench Press and Deadlift meet in lovely Tumwater. I'm going to go to that as a bystander, see what it's like, and size up the women in my age and weight class in person. Then, the next event on the books is the Columbia City classic in Oct. That one's a full power lifting meet (bench, deadlift and squat) and I am going to sign up to compete. It should be fun and interesting, if nothing else.
After that there's another meet in December and tentatively one in March of next year.
