As the title says, I will be preparing to do my first powerlifting meet on Sept 14th (the meet isn't schduled yet, but my training partner knows the organizer and said it will be a go). I started training at a hardcore bodybuilding/powerlifting/strongman gym up here in Houston and I love it. My intentions for moving to this gym was to get to the next level in powerlifting. After the first day there, I teamed up with a powerlifter that know quite a bit and was willing to take me under his wing. We have access to a monolift (from westside barbell), an EliteFTS competition bench, a reverse hyper machine from Westside, competition bars, chains, and a GHR among a lot of other great equipment.

I'll be posting my training along with other stuff moving up to the meet. I'm currently around 188#s right now, so I feel I'm just going to compete in the 181# class rather than the 198# class.

Current Maxes:

Squat: 525
Bench: 325 (following comp rules)
Deadlift: 585

Glad to have you guys on board.