Sarah's Powerlifting Journey

Monday- abs & core

Crunch machine sitting 3x10

Leg raises 3x10

30 sec planks x 6

Kettle bell swings 35 lbs

15x6

Bw squat 25x3

Hanging leg raises 10x3

Tuesday- SQUATS

5 sets of 285x5 and some quick volume with leg extensions and leg press

Thursday- BENCH

10 sets of 125x3, and 1 single with 155, and 170.

https://instagram.com/p/2q2kKkjzoU

Took it relatively easy this week, believe it or not, because I decided to enter a strongwoman meet… write up to follow.

This log should really be getting more love. Putting up some real weights there, and in style - sweet depth on those squats BTW, a rare sight. Didn’t realise that you had lost all that weight, a great effort on its own. And those quads … just ridic. Keep going - this has been good to follow!

Strong woman meet - Beast of the bluegrass

I had never trained for any of the events. I literally tried the axel bar the week before the meet, honestly winged everything else. There were 9 girls competing in the Novice open LW.

  1. Axel press for reps - 80lbs - 26 reps, tied for first place.
    Starting Strongman | My swolemate talked me into doing a strongman meet

https://instagram.com/p/2ykrWkjzgq/

  1. Hussa stone carry- 200lb stone for distance. This thing was my least favorite. You see me almost drop it and I lower lean it up from my thigh towards the end. I am alllllll kinds of bruised up. Pretty sure I finished middle of the pack in this event.

https://www.facebook.com/sarah.cattan/videos/10205544870959934/

  1. Axel Deadlift- 3 attempts- winner for max weight - opened with 295- which I believe would have put me in first place but I didn’t know what other girls second and third attempts would be. Second attempt was 320, and once I got my grip it was easy. A lot or the other girls used straps and suits. Not me. Didn’t even have to do a third attempt because the 320 was the highest by 25lbs.

https://www.facebook.com/sarah.cattan/videos/10205545282370219/

320- https://www.facebook.com/sarah.cattan/videos/10205568386067797/

  1. tire flip for distance/fastest times- have never touched a tire weighing this much in my life. Literally flipped a tire for the first time the week before this, got it in 24.5ish seconds. 2nd place :slight_smile:

https://www.facebook.com/sarah.cattan/videos/10205545316451071/

https://instagram.com/p/20xxiaDzn6/

  1. Atlas stone. Never have picked one up before the day of the competition. I know I did it all kinds of wrong pretty much bicep curled the damn thing over the bar. 14 reps for 3rd place.

https://www.facebook.com/sarah.cattan/videos/10205551504125759/

For NEVER training for something like this I am super excited that I placed second and was very close to first :slight_smile: I met some great people this day and who knows I might do another one for fun sometime. My heart is in powerlifting though.

[quote]justrob wrote:
This log should really be getting more love. Putting up some real weights there, and in style - sweet depth on those squats BTW, a rare sight. Didn’t realise that you had lost all that weight, a great effort on its own. And those quads … just ridic. Keep going - this has been good to follow![/quote]

Right?!!?? TNATION owes me some love right now.

maybe because I’m stronger than most of the dudes on here and they’re scared I’ll call them out…

But I won’t. :slight_smile: I’m a nice lady so feel free to throw in some love… Hahaha

But yes, first the goal was weight loss which honestly happened very quickly, then it was the pursuit of world records :stuck_out_tongue:

Thanks for the support justrob !!


If you’re looking for another meet… We’re likely not terribly too far from you guys. Cash prizes.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vkOEoZzos0SLijw5-B8o-dgxLlOPtvz2TR-dnG9EMh4/mobilebasic

also- totally awesome lifting!

Yay, you did a strongman meet!!! :slight_smile: Great job! You killed it! :slight_smile:

I agree with one of the above posts about your log not getting enough love. Your squatting ability is out of this world and the fact that you are a lady moving that kind of weight is even more admirable. I’ve lurked on your log for a while and figured I would drop a comment. Great job to you and all the ladies who are putting us men to shame!!

[quote]corstijeir wrote:
also- totally awesome lifting![/quote]

Thank you!! I would be down to come to Memphis but it is so close to my other planned meet.


Tuesday -squats
Warm ups. 135x5 225x5 245x2 275x4

5 sets of 295x5

https://instagram.com/p/24sD4ejzmJ/

Leg pump work after- leg extensions, hamstring curls

[quote]Babypowerlifter wrote:
Yay, you did a strongman meet!!! :slight_smile: Great job! You killed it! :)[/quote]

Thanks girl! For having no training I was pretty proud! But ouch!! Hah

[quote]jblues85 wrote:
I agree with one of the above posts about your log not getting enough love. Your squatting ability is out of this world and the fact that you are a lady moving that kind of weight is even more admirable. I’ve lurked on your log for a while and figured I would drop a comment. Great job to you and all the ladies who are putting us men to shame!! [/quote]

Thank you! I appreciate you coming out of the dark lurking corners of tnation. Big things are coming.

Curious, have you tried Oly shoes for Squats? If so, what made you stay with flats?

Great work in here, obviously.

[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
Curious, have you tried Oly shoes for Squats? If so, what made you stay with flats?

Great work in here, obviously.[/quote]

Gracias!!

& actually I don’t own a pair and have never used them… Hmmmm

Howdy tropicalshoes, lurker stopping in, alot of great work in here keep it up lady its a great motivation :slight_smile:
Also great job on your first strongwoman comp.!

[quote]tropicalshoes wrote:

[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
Curious, have you tried Oly shoes for Squats? If so, what made you stay with flats?

Great work in here, obviously.[/quote]

Gracias!!

& actually I don’t own a pair and have never used them… Hmmmm[/quote]
I was actually always curious about that too. Guess you can borrow my shoes now too :stuck_out_tongue:

Solid lifting and set of quads in here, haha.

[quote]HeavyTriple wrote:

[quote]tropicalshoes wrote:

[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
Curious, have you tried Oly shoes for Squats? If so, what made you stay with flats?

Great work in here, obviously.[/quote]

Gracias!!

& actually I don’t own a pair and have never used them… Hmmmm[/quote]
I was actually always curious about that too. Guess you can borrow my shoes now too :p[/quote]

Yeah I was going to say, use Danny’s. He’s got little baby hands and feet.

[quote]FarmerOwen wrote:
Howdy tropicalshoes, lurker stopping in, alot of great work in here keep it up lady its a great motivation :slight_smile:
Also great job on your first strongwoman comp.![/quote]

Thank you Farmerowen!!!

[quote]lift206 wrote:
Solid lifting and set of quads in here, haha.[/quote]

DA QUADS ARE TAKING OVER MY BODY.

[quote]Spidey22 wrote:

[quote]HeavyTriple wrote:

[quote]tropicalshoes wrote:

[quote]Spidey22 wrote:
Curious, have you tried Oly shoes for Squats? If so, what made you stay with flats?

Great work in here, obviously.[/quote]

Gracias!!

& actually I don’t own a pair and have never used them… Hmmmm[/quote]
I was actually always curious about that too. Guess you can borrow my shoes now too :p[/quote]

Yeah I was going to say, use Danny’s. He’s got little baby hands and feet.
[/quote]

LOL LOL, I love that someone else is giving Danny shit too… he’s got baby feet, but mine are even smaller :frowning:

Thursday- Bench

135x3 for 5 sets,
150x1

and then some accessory work

Saturday- Deadlifts
Warm up pulls
315x2
330x2 x5, hand ripped open on 2nd set, so put on straps and was good to go

225x5 on sumo pulls
275x3
225 x 7

20ish pull ups.

Monday- BENCH AND SQUAT WUT!?

Pause squats
135x10 , 225x5,

275x5,

315x6

275x12 pause squats. Wooooooah

Bench

135x1
135x3
145x2
155x2
165x1
170x1 x2 both fails.

Tuesday-

I messed around with some Olympic lifting with a local coach, also did some cardio and hit hamstrings.