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Taylor’s easy comeback 830kg with much more bodyweight to gain in the 83kg class

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Russ’ 882.5kg gym total this week

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Joe B’s 885kg gym total from this week’s SBD session

Who do you reckon will win if they go head to head at USA nats?

Personally I’m a huge Taylor fan boy so I’m probably biased but Joe and Russ’ progress has been insane lately.

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I was born female, and I'm starting testosterone soon to masculinize myself. Trans males typically take about 100 mg t a week, so much less than roids abusers, just enough to put us in a typical male range, and testing levels is mandatory to keep you healthy. I would absolutely love to compete in powerlifting one day, but I know I would have an unfair advantages in womens, would I be allowed to compete as a man if my testosterone was in the stable male level? Would I need some sort of doctor's note if my id still said female?

Currently 16, bonus question is there any cool co ed stuff for teens in the US that could be fun?

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This is a bit of a twofer post. I competed as a raw u82.5 junior, and my friend whom I coached competed as an open 125. This was a USAPL meet in Thornton, Colorado, ran by an amazing meet director at an amazing venue. This was my 4th meet overall and his debut.

For me, squats were a bit of a nightmare. I opened with an easy 205kg, which felt super light. Went up to 217.5kg, which tied some of my heavier squats in prep, but I had a problem: my lockout at start was iffy. I felt like I was hyper extending my knees to get the start command, and I ended up standing in a brace position for 6-7 seconds, which wrecked havoc on my brace. I missed the squat and had the same outcomes on my 3rd. Still a 12.5kg meet PR and 15kg over what I squatted for my best total, but truth be told I was upset over it.

My friend had the goal of a 9/9 day and started off good with squats. Climbed from 182.5 to 195 through the attempts and he ground a bit and didn't go for 200 today but he played it all out perfectly.

Bench was the turnaround I needed. My opener of 125 felt a bit awkward, my unrack was wobbly and bench has never felt good in comp for me but I tied my meet PR on my 2nd attempt at 127.5. Moved up to 132.5 and had an epic grind that basically turned into a static hold and locked it out, for a 5kg meet PR and just under my best gym lift.

My friend had a small setup change in warmups, he was having a hard time locking his shoulders in and when I told him to use the bar to brace he got it. He opened with 120 and eventually moved up to a slow but smooth all time PR of 127.5, 9 white lights.

Deadlifts for me started as they always do, opening higher than I've ever done in comp, with a 230 opener. 500lbs has basically become an at-will weight which I'm super happy about. I didn't get red lighted for it but right side ref wanted a bit more shoulder retraction. Had an all time PR of 242.5, a 4 pound PR over my best pull in training, for my second. It was a bit of a grinder but I felt like I had more and the mindset had fully activated. Tried 247.5 and it just didn't budge. First deadlift fail in competition which was a bummer. Still, this spelled a 403 DOTs and a 580 total, both PRs, on a 6/9 day. Came in 1st of 2 in u82.5 juniors and would have been 2nd in the open behind the guy who also pulled the heaviest deadlift of the weekend but a paperwork issue meant I wasn't registered with them

My friend opened deadlifts with a 210 pull and slightly iffy lockout, he was having to hyperextend his knees a little to get the down command, but it was otherwise servicable. He went 225 for a second attempt that was a touch slow but he'd done the weight 3 times before. We sent for 235 for his third, a 13 pound PR, and with only a modest grind he locked it out for a perfect 9/9, 27 white light day. He came in 2nd in the u125 class as a relative noob, he had been in the gym for a long time but he had only been on any kind of PL programming since the end of August, and he went from 165/107.5/195 split to 195/127.5/235 split. He plans to keep lifting, but he's moving to a different state with his girlfriend within the next few months. I'm super impressed with how he did over this 10 weeks, and having a perfect meet did a lot for him.

This meet was awesome, I've had a hard time seeing the forest for the trees in PL and the sense of community at this meet is always peak and it helped me a lot. As for my performance, the biggest thing I felt that held me back on squats and bench was that I made some fairly major changes to my technique and stance only 7-8 weeks out. I wish I'd made the changes in the longer off-season I had this last year, where I could have matured in them a bit, but I'm looking forward to 1-1 coaching and a very long off-season over the next year until West Regionals.

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I can really only visit a fully-equipped gym 1-2x a week right now. On the other days, I can visit a small apartment gym which has decent equipment for accessories (lat-pulldown, cable station, leg extension, chest press, shoulder press) but no barbells.

I’d appreciate general advice for those who want to make gains while training with a low frequency (as well as some specific guidance for my situation)

I shared this a couple of weeks ago, but it was taken down due to privacy concerns, so I have removed emails and a link.

This is not a surprise about Russell Kern and the WRPF as plenty of rumors have circulated over past recent years. What is disturbing is that Ana Perez was the leader of the WRPF, helped Russell cover up for years and is now the president of Powerlifting United. In this letter, Ana admits to helping cover up sexual harassment, misconduct, prostitution, drug dealing, use of federation revenue to fund adult entertainment companies, and more. She was complicit until she stopped getting paid. When people have questioned these changes online, Powerlifting United's responses have been either, "we won't discuss the details," or giving no reply, and deleting dozens of comments.

From: Ana Perez <redacted email>
Date: Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 9:43 PM
Subject: Resignation from Vice President Position
To: Russell Kern <redacted email>

Russell,

Please accept this letter as formal notification of my resignation from my position as Vice President of Operations at Kern Promotion dba WRPF Americas, effective immediately.

My decision to resign is based on a series of deeply concerning and unacceptable actions and practices that have created an extremely hostile and unethical work environment

Throughout my tenure, I have been subjected to:

*Underpayment:* Consistent underpayment for my role as an executive and the responsibilities that come with that. Under my leadership, we went from under 20K/yr in revenue to 450K+ revenue in a 3 year span.

*Late and Improper Payroll Practices:* Repeated late payroll and the unethical practice of under-the-table payments, misclassification of contractors who are also underpaid, creating unnecessary burdens on accounting and tax compliance. Despite my multiple requests, you have yet to provide pay stubs or proof that my federal and state withholdings are being paid, and you never signed any of the contracts that were repeatedly sent to you (which have now all expired anyway). New Jersey and Nevada taxes remain unpaid under collections, and George made you aware of this multiple times.

*Constant Issues and Lack of Transparency with WRPF Funds:* You have admitted to the misuse of WRPF funds to finance unrelated side businesses and personal endeavors (aka your Frikki Tikki sex toy novelty company and your adult-themed content production). You spent your time investing into that instead of WRPF. You accumulated unnecessary debts because you didn't want to give anyone else access to accounts in order to pay or make payment arrangements before it got out of hand. The times I was able to setup arrangements, aka our event insurance, you never paid it and it had a negative impact on me, as I personally vouched for you. It is painfully evident that the WRPF has always taken a backseat on your list of priorities. There were many things I did not agree with and told you multiple times that they were bad ideas that would jeopardize our reputation and credibility (ex: Using Irina or Julia to do favors in exchange for federation sponsorships / asking me to reserve VIP areas at the American Pro for them to have sexual relations with sponsors - which I rejected on more than occasion, or the countless other extremely horrible ideas that you've had to put the federation at risk)

*Sabotage of Work:* Intentional disabling of my work email and the deliberate withholding of my earned pay. In fact, just last night as I was trying to transfer things that I was currently paying for out of my own pocket and managing, I was moving it to your godaddy account and was going to explain how to manage. That is, until you immediately revoked my access. Now any issues will be your problem to resolve. You are your own worst enemy. Never providing access to a company card or financials for proper management, reporting and investments. The countless empty promises you made to my face telling me you'd provide access and tools to manage the federation. You never followed through. There was no way that I could do anything other than hope we generate revenue with the bare minimum resources made available. Getting you to pay our invoices and other expenses has been impossible. You created every obstacle to set us up for failure and are so quick to blame everyone else. Anyone except yourself. This is your company, ultimately you're the one responsible.

*Unpaid Debts and Financial Irresponsibility:* The ongoing and intentional refusal to pay the outstanding debt owed to my company, A1 Digital, for services rendered at the Ghost Clash event in April 2024. The dozens of days accumulated in late payroll which caused me to miss mortgage payments and on time payment of my personal bills. You have caused irreparable damages to my credit, my personal life, my business, and overall unnecessary stress that has impacted my health. This, along with other unpaid debts like event insurance and the Westgate Resort invoice for 2023 Nationals, demonstrates a pattern of financial mismanagement and disregard for obligations.

Additionally, I cannot overlook the numerous accounts from myself along with former female employees, associates and contractors detailing instances of inappropriate behavior from you. The countless women that you have asked to perform tasks that were explicit or sexual in nature. You pray on women who are vulnerable. You know exactly what I am talking about. You created a toxic and unsafe environment for us all. You're a predator and no female should ever work for you. As a female in a leadership role, I am beyond disappointed, traumatized and disgusted that I stayed here for so long, only for you to have ulterior motives which led to sabotage and destroying of what we built. I stayed all this time for the members and for my team, and tried to keep you away from the public eye because everyone had concerns with you and were skeptical to join us. They were right.

That resignation letter that Ryan sent you, when he was the Vice President before me, sounds an awful lot like this one. I always remembered that email. I read every word he wrote and I realize now that he tried to warn everyone, yet people like me still believed you could change and that there was hope and a bright future for WRPF. I stood by you all of these years, despite everything, I dedicated everything to the WRPF... and I can't do this anymore.

You can blame me and anyone else all you want, but the reality is that you are upset that there is nobody left for you to use and manipulate. Look around you, there is nobody left. Everyone is waking up and calling you out on exactly who you are.

Your attempts to deflect blame and tarnish my reputation or that of others are unfounded. We have the receipts from many individuals and witnesses who have affiliated with you and had their own experiences, stating that you were inappropriate with them or that you asked them to push gear for you. I tried to warn you over a year ago that people were starting to talk and that you should step away before it got bad. You didn't listen and even recently someone was posting about you on their stories and we had to defend you. Never again. How do you think this makes us feel? What are we supposed to say or do? You put us here. You created these obstacles. Your own actions and choices have directly contributed to the WRPF's current state and reputation.

As a team, we have collectively made repeated attempts to address these issues internally and with WRPF headquarters in Russia, but to no avail. Nobody was willing to help us do what was right for the WRPF. We owe it to the members. They do not deserve this. You retaliated against me when you found out that we voiced our concerns about the issues we were having. You fixated on me and tried to punish me by disabling my accounts to make an example out of me. It's not just me saying this for the first time. So many others have expressed the same concerns about you being the appointed leader of this organization and fallen on deaf ears. This is beyond repair. You do not deserve us. All of us have tried multiple times to come to a resolution with you before it ever had to come down to this. We gave you plenty of notice and opportunities to make things right.

I am left with no choice but to resign from this untenable situation. I do not wish to have any further communication or affiliation with you or the WRPF.

Please provide the payment for my final paycheck. As a reminder you may not withhold my pay for any reason and must complete the final payment within 3 days of this notice. I will also be expecting my final paystubs with proof of tax withholdings paid, as requested. Per the Dept of Labor: there is a risk of facing civil penalties for every violation where you don't provide my pay stubs or are late on my payment.

Since you removed my access to your hosting at GoDaddy, I was trying to migrate the database to you since it's been hosted all this time on my cloud, at my expense. I do not wish to continue paying out of pocket to support WRPF / Kern Promotion and although you deliberately have refused to pay for A1 Digital services rendered on more than one occassion, here is the full records database, you can figure out how to deploy it: (redacted link)

Regards,

Ana Perez

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Meet Report

Meet: Ottawa Open 2024

Date: October 26-27, 2024

Class: 120kg

Preamble – My girlfriend and I are going to be having a daughter in December, so I really wanted to do my first powerlifting meet before she got here. I am what you’d call an exceptionally WEAK powerlifter, but I love the sport and community and wanted to just try a meet for the love of the game. I did make the decision to do this pretty late in the game, and I was trying to figure out a meet I could go to where it wouldn’t be too close to the delivery date. I’m in Ontario, Canada, so meets were kind of slim pickings by the time I signed up, so I opted for one at the end of October, even though it was in Ottawa which is about 4 hours out from where I live.  

Prep:

 I didn’t have a coach or anything going in, but I ran Calgary Barbell’s 16 week program to go into the meet (shout out to Bryce for being Canadian lifting royalty).  I also wanted to cut into the meet and was having mixed results losing weight, but about halfway in, my girlfriend came down with Gestational Diabetes because of the pregnancy. What that meant, is that we basically had to go for walks after every meal (to help regulate her blood sugar), which was SUPER HELPFUL in terms of cutting weight. I also just did other things for cardio like rowing, hiking, jogging and elliptical because I…kinda like cardio sometimes?  My squats went okay this prep, nothing spectacular, but towards the end all my squats were feeling janky. Idk if it was because of the weight loss or what, but things that were moving during the middle of prep were not going as smoothly as I’d hoped. Bench I thought was going ok, but I bench in my basement because the racks at the commercial gym don’t work for my long arms. Because I’m on a wooden bench (that I’m grateful for) it’s sometimes crooked and my left arm/shoulder sometimes hurts. For deadlifts, the block before this prep my deadlifts really let me down, so this time I was really focused on making sure that they were in a good spot. The problem with deads, was that I trained the ENTIRE prep in deadlift socks and with no shoes…and then I remembered like in the week before the meet that you have to wear shoes. Luckily I had a pair of Sabos so I packed those for the meet.

Weigh Ins/Equipment Check:

Gf and I got there early so we could watch the earlier session. Shout out to the meet director and staff, they were super helpful and ran a tight ship. I also met some lifters in the back that were so welcoming and helped point me in the right direction. Some mistakes I made: I packed some under Armor soft compression shorts that I thought would count as briefs since they weren’t supportive, but no luck, I had to compete in the underwear I wore for weigh ins. No Bueno. Also – I thought ALL the A7 shirts were ok, but the bar grip shirts are not, so I had to run to the front to get the meet shirt to compete in. Fun times. Also, if I knew how hectic it would be in the back, I would have tried to get a buddy to come with as a handler. Shout out to one of the lifters (Dustin) and his coach who I can’t remember his name who very kindly let me warm up with them (and the coach helped me get my rack heights).  

Meet attempts in kg – Warning - I know they’re really smol weights for my class, but hey, it be like that

Squat – 147.5, 155, 165. Squat pulled up and went really great actually? I wasn’t used to squatting with kilo plates and things felt really heavy, but honestly for the actual attempts it went well. Definitely felt good to have people cheering for me and seeing my gf in the crowd.

Bench – 102, 107.5, 112.5 (failed) – Ok so I’m not really sure what I needed to do for that last bench. Maybe I should have taken a smaller attempt, or maybe my tech was off? But it felt stapled to my chest once I got it down. ☹

Deadlift – 182.5 (failed), 182.5, 200 – failed my first deadlift because I didn’t extend my shoulders back, not on strength. Took the same weight for the second attempt just to make sure I had it right, and then I went for it with the last attempt, which was an all time PR for me. Can’t wait for 500 😊

 Ended the day disappointed with bench but squat and deads went ok! all time pr on deads, so that was fun :) Total 470(kg), 282.92 dots

Thanks for reading, and I don’t know if anyone else was there on Sunday but if you were, great lifting! Can't wait to do my second meet after my little girl gets here!

Here are the links for my lifts:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y-PY_REP5plh6YleaG-XNgftylEkGuf9/view?usp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y-sDVGJwDrz6guuy23R3kE53Ord2Hb4Q/view?usp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y0Oxby5EtodhHlLGPkl2kStvXudlFsoc/view?usp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y2x5RzE5SzKr-CGPXWEgI8PDrEWfGTuv/view?usp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y9grbRjUJVzW25k2mdDBZmwgU8r0aQBW/view?usp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yD4G3yqk4ZPGVIa2TZHds9C35PnOE4Xk/view?usp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yNFSA9BZdB0Zbzzw3kplXZmllYgEEaOS/view?usp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yPuk67JZj935AL4TZzmrTEGE1SNt6DqK/view?usp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yRn_MPnOAvruY4JptKaQHcWPTYQC9Zif/view?usp=sharing

Dear mods, this isn’t a medical question, more so a training question.

I 28(F) just got diagnosed with PCOS. For a year and a half now, my lifts have been stagnant while my body weight has gone up 30lbs. It’s been incredibly frustrating, but now I have a diagnosis and can start to figure things out. I’ve been told to focus more on cardio, but I don’t want to give up on powerlifting.

I’m very strict with my diet, so that’s not an issue. Ladies, if anyone else is dealing with PCOS, have you modified your workouts? How do you work around this issue to keep gaining strength?

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