I haven't competed, but I plan to within this year if I can find a meet later in the year. There's a PL meet here in houston at the end of July, but I don't feel ready (and it says you need to be clean for the past 3 years, LOL!!!) I need to find an association that doesn't require those types of things, LOL!! I'm sure I could get my squats and dead numbers up higher if I had a GHR machine and a reverse hyper machine.