night before the meet

Get to compete with all the guys this weekend, it was very very important to me to lift in this, I feel like if I skipped it I'd really be giving up on myself. Plus I've got a very good week next week lined up doing some things that should be an overall improvement, so I thought in general heading to the meet was a good option. Some people didn't think so, but my father gave me his blessing, so away I went. Very excited but very nervous.

Had a full week off training just busy with life stuff that would of course happen right during training, but not something I'm going to give a lot of thought to, but to improve upon it, and that's about it.

I didn't log some recents PRs heading into this competition that are making me feel very prepared, but I wish I didn't lose the tightness in my quads, I'm pretty sure i'm sure it won't matter much overall.

Bench
295x1 single with 45lbs chain - I add up the weights, and that's what I feel I can strive for in ccompetition.
315xf-3/4 up, a good miss, but a good sign now that I'm ready for what happened during the miss

Squat
425+45 chains - no belt
485+45 chains - 30 lb pr from when I hit 500 with a bit of room to spare with much worse technique, but surprisingly similar depth.

Deadlift
-trying a few new things technique wise, that will hopefully be the changes I need to get over 600, I feel this should finally be doable, but either way, it's going up soon, my squats up, and my form has only gotten better.

Just going to try to enjoy the day, and treat it like a training session, and use the crowd for added psych, and stop with any stupid yelling. I dislike doing that, but sometimes I feel it helps lift the weights. It generally means I panicked and relied on getting fired up rather than focusing during the lift. That's the sort of thing I notice the majority of higher level guys handle themselves, so I'm trying to copy that.

Overall feeling good heading into this, I'm hoping an attitude change in powerlifting will carry over to my every day life, and if I become more professional there, my career as an entrepeneur will follow as well.