Well, it's been a while. Not sure how many of the origional crew of Forvm folks are still here. I was here in the beginning and for many years. Backed away from the online stuff for a while. I've been married for 7 years and a 3.5 year old daughter now, successful career, own a gym (Deep South Barbell), and am just living life.
On the training front, as a few of you know I have struggled with injuries. I totaled Elite back in 2010 for the first time at 275, hit it again in 2011 and have been in various states of injured ever since. I competed for the first time in over a year last summer after rehabbing for a year and a half and totaled a fairly disappointing 1835. I competed again in Feb and totaled 1875. It's progress. But the years have started halting the amount of heavy work I can get away with with the current state of my lower back. My best lifts are 760 Squat, 560 Bench, 640 Deadlift and a 1950 Total in the 275 Wight Class (Equipped). My best raw gym lifts are a 600 Squat, 455 Bench, and 625 Deadlift.
I am currently dieting. I started my diet around 265 or so 3 weeks ago and after the first 3 weeks am sitting in the mid to upper 240's. I am using a modified Keto diet, along the lines of CarbNite. I am working to diet down for the summer and then will hopefully compete again in the late fall or early winter.
I am currently following the Cube method for training, which is just a more drawn out conjugate method. It has worked well for our gym over the past several months. I have hit my best raw numbers ever using it. Since I have begun dieting I have pretty much split it up into more of a budybuilding split after the first movement.
So anyway, I will try to keep a log going here. Happy to answer any questions anyone might have. I will post up a few of my more recent training session to start off.