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Hey what’s up everyone?!
Thanks for visiting my blog! I created this blog to follow me and my Dad’s workouts, and track our progess to becoming beasts in the weight room.
My dad on the far left with all the winners at the Utah Summer Games Powerlifting Competition
Me and my Dad started working out about 2 years ago. We started because we both wanted to get into better shape and to gain some strength. We started out with no real goal in mind other than to just trim up. We did that for about 6 months and saw a little bit of weight loss and fat loss. At the beginning of this year my dad got the idea to compete in the Utah Summer Games powerlifting competition. The events included bench, squat, and deadlift. So in January we got serious about lifting heavy weight and quit worrying so much about being cut.
We saw some huge gains in our lifts once we got serious and started lifting heavy weights. For the first time ever my bench got over the 3 plate mark. I played football in high school and was one of the strongest kids on the team my senior year but I focused on squat and deadlift more than bench. So in high school my max bench was only about 275 lbs while my deadlift was 605 lbs and my squat was about 520 lbs.
Both me and my dad were excited that our bench max had gone up so high. Our lifting routine was Monday, Wednesday, and Friday we would do upper body then Tuesdays and Thursdays we would do lower body. My dad had seen some huge gains on his squat and deadlift. He has bad knees and at first had a hard time even doing a plate (135 lbs). After a couple of months his knees were getting better and he had more range of motion and he was able to lift a lot more weight than before.
A month before the summer games I reinjured my back (I have 2 herniated discs in my lower back). I had to lay of the heavy leg lifting so I was unable to compete. I still continued to go to the gym with my dad I just did not lift much on the days we did lower body.
My dad competed in the summer games and kicked butt! He didn’t do as well as he had hoped but he still took first place in his age group and lifted a combined weight of 865 lbs for the 3 lifts. Although he didn’t do as well as he had hoped he killed it on the deadlift and got a new max of 370 lbs and he could have easily did 405 lbs. It was such a cool experience to go down and watch him compete. Hopefully this next June we will be able to go down and compete together.
After the summer games we went back to trying to get cut so we changed our workout up but after 3 months we decided we wanted to be stronger instead of cut so we changed it up again. We are now trying to lift big again. That’s why I am calling my blog Lift Big to Get Big.  I will post stuff about our progress and all the steps we take on our way to our goal of being beasts in the gym!

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