[quote]Firebug9 wrote:
I will just say – Light Weights and White Lights to ya…
You will do great tomorrow ;-)[/quote]
Thanks Malinda. Right now it’s more a mental battle for me than a physical one. At the moment I’m confident. We’ll see how I feel when I hear “the bar is loaded” 
If you crap in your squat suit, it’ll just be tighter, you’ll get more pop. Plus, other chicks won’t talk to you to try to get into your head.
Shit your suit, girl. Shit it hard.
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
If you crap in your squat suit, it’ll just be tighter, you’ll get more pop. Plus, other chicks won’t talk to you to try to get into your head.
Shit your suit, girl. Shit it hard.[/quote]
You mean to say there’s people out there that don’t? I thought it was s.o.p.
Good luck tomorrow, though you don’t need luck.
I am at work all day Saturday, so will be at the ready to read your news as soon as you post it!
[quote]Chrysalis wrote:
Good luck tomorrow, though you don’t need luck.
I am at work all day Saturday, so will be at the ready to read your news as soon as you post it![/quote]
Yes, make sure you assign someone the duty of posting your results on here or FB so we know whats up!!
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
Firebug9 wrote:
I will just say – Light Weights and White Lights to ya…
You will do great tomorrow 
Thanks Malinda. Right now it’s more a mental battle for me than a physical one. At the moment I’m confident. We’ll see how I feel when I hear “the bar is loaded” :)[/quote]
You’re going to be great! Your opener is light, so just try to go deeper than you think you need to.
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
If you crap in your squat suit, it’ll just be tighter, you’ll get more pop. Plus, other chicks won’t talk to you to try to get into your head.
Shit your suit, girl. Shit it hard.[/quote]
OMG, that’s too funny.
Best wishes!!! I’m excited to hear how it goes.
I’m actually going to see a meet tomorrow, I’ll definitely be thinking of you.
All the best, O!
Bring the house down, ouroboro_s! white lights all around!
I bombed again.
A lot went wrong at the meet yesterday that was my own doing in leading up to it. There is still nothing wrong with my strength but my head needs work. Going into it I felt like that would happen. I got a lot of solid advice that I didn’t heed. My coach felt badly and thinks he should have done something differently to have changed what I was doing. I told him nothing he did would have made one iota of difference. Some lessons need to be learned the hard way before you really understand them.
My warm ups were great and easy. I warmed up to 265 and it was clean and deep. I opened at 275 and my head went to shit. I was shaking like a chihuahua on crack and on my first attempt I pitched forward and almost dumped the bar over my head. They pulled it off me. I was really done in from that point because then I was scared of failing and getting hurt. I’ve never really thought about getting hurt before. My second and third attempts were high.
I will now be competing with Ruggerlife in Emeryville in November. I will be opening squats at 225 or 235lbs and making bigger jumps if I have to just to get on the board.
In addition, I will be moving up to 60kg starting now. We had dinner at Mandarin last night to kick things off. I think running so lean is affecting my recovery and my mental acuity. I only mean that partly tongue in cheek. I don’t think I’m recovering properly and it’s affecting how I sleep and I’m chronically sleep deprived.
I ran into another lifter/body builder whose business is nutrition counseling and personal training. She ball parked my body fat around 7%. A number of people approached my coach before we even lifted and asked if I was okay because I looked exhausted and washed out.
I’m disappointed in myself but I’ll dust myself off and keep going. My coach has bombed out two meets running and he ran off a list of other lifters that have. It sucks but when I get past it, I’ll have learned a lot from my own stupidity that I don’t think I would truly have learned except by running at the wall myself.
I’m heading out to buy ice cream to get fatter.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
I bombed again.
A lot went wrong at the meet yesterday that was my own doing in leading up to it. There is still nothing wrong with my strength but my head needs work. Going into it I felt like that would happen. I got a lot of solid advice that I didn’t heed. My coach felt badly and thinks he should have done something differently to have changed what I was doing. I told him nothing he did would have made one iota of difference. Some lessons need to be learned the hard way before you really understand them.
My warm ups were great and easy. I warmed up to 265 and it was clean and deep. I opened at 275 and my head went to shit. I was shaking like a chihuahua on crack and on my first attempt I pitched forward and almost dumped the bar over my head. They pulled it off me. I was really done in from that point because then I was scared of failing and getting hurt. I’ve never really thought about getting hurt before. My second and third attempts were high.
I will now be competing with Ruggerlife in Emeryville in November. I will be opening squats at 225 or 235lbs and making bigger jumps if I have to just to get on the board.
In addition, I will be moving up to 60kg starting now. We had dinner at Mandarin last night to kick things off. I think running so lean is affecting my recovery and my mental acuity. I only mean that partly tongue in cheek. I don’t think I’m recovering properly and it’s affecting how I sleep and I’m chronically sleep deprived.
I ran into another lifter/body builder whose business is nutrition counseling and personal training. She ball parked my body fat around 7%. A number of people approached my coach before we even lifted and asked if I was okay because I looked exhausted and washed out.
I’m disappointed in myself but I’ll dust myself off and keep going. My coach has bombed out two meets running and he ran off a list of other lifters that have. It sucks but when I get past it, I’ll have learned a lot from my own stupidity that I don’t think I would truly have learned except by running at the wall myself.
I’m heading out to buy ice cream to get fatter.[/quote]
I am sorry to hear that you had such a tough time. But you are right. Strength is not the issue. The issue is all mental and that will take some time to figure out. If you learned where the problem is and have a plan to fix it than doing the meet was worth every bit of it. Each time we step under the bar or on the platform we should learn something about the weight or ourselves, at least IMHO.
Keep at it … it will come.
Enjoy your ice cream
Keep your head up! You’ll get past this and be ‘stronger,’ for it!
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
I bombed again.
A lot went wrong at the meet yesterday that was my own doing in leading up to it. There is still nothing wrong with my strength but my head needs work. Going into it I felt like that would happen. I got a lot of solid advice that I didn’t heed. My coach felt badly and thinks he should have done something differently to have changed what I was doing. I told him nothing he did would have made one iota of difference. Some lessons need to be learned the hard way before you really understand them.
My warm ups were great and easy. I warmed up to 265 and it was clean and deep. I opened at 275 and my head went to shit. I was shaking like a chihuahua on crack and on my first attempt I pitched forward and almost dumped the bar over my head. They pulled it off me. I was really done in from that point because then I was scared of failing and getting hurt. I’ve never really thought about getting hurt before. My second and third attempts were high.
I will now be competing with Ruggerlife in Emeryville in November. I will be opening squats at 225 or 235lbs and making bigger jumps if I have to just to get on the board.
In addition, I will be moving up to 60kg starting now. We had dinner at Mandarin last night to kick things off. I think running so lean is affecting my recovery and my mental acuity. I only mean that partly tongue in cheek. I don’t think I’m recovering properly and it’s affecting how I sleep and I’m chronically sleep deprived.
I ran into another lifter/body builder whose business is nutrition counseling and personal training. She ball parked my body fat around 7%. A number of people approached my coach before we even lifted and asked if I was okay because I looked exhausted and washed out.
I’m disappointed in myself but I’ll dust myself off and keep going. My coach has bombed out two meets running and he ran off a list of other lifters that have. It sucks but when I get past it, I’ll have learned a lot from my own stupidity that I don’t think I would truly have learned except by running at the wall myself.
I’m heading out to buy ice cream to get fatter.[/quote]
Try not to be disappointed in yourself, you know it’s in your head. You can lift a ton of weight for someone who’s probably under 10% body fat. Back to the drawing board, sounds like you have a good plan.
Third times the charm. I’ve bombed out twice in a row myself. Still looking for a comp nearby so’s I can post a total, screw gettin’ any records.
I’m sorry to hear it went so badly. But I’m grateful that you are open about your mistakes. I’m learning from you too and I think mentally we’re somewhat similar. I’m really looking forward to seeing what happens as you sort through this and put on some weight.
I am sorry you had difficulty at the meet. You were one of those kids who HAD to touch the hot iron, weren’t you? Couldn’t take your mother’s word for it that it would burn?
You will shine in NOvember. I predict it.
[quote]Chrysalis wrote:
I am sorry you had difficulty at the meet. You were one of those kids who HAD to touch the hot iron, weren’t you? Couldn’t take your mother’s word for it that it would burn?
You will shine in NOvember. I predict it.[/quote]
It’s funny you say that because that is precisely what I said to my coach on the drive home when he was feeling badly that he didn’t push me to change my opener. I told him about my mother saying “don’t touch the iron, it’s really hot. Sweety, don’t touch the iron. It’s hot” Guess who pressed all the fingers on their right hand to the bottom of the iron. That’s right. I did. It was repeated later with “Don’t touch the knife. It’s sharp” Got get the picture of how I learn my most enduring lessons?
Sometimes you don’t really know until you know. If I had lowered my opener and gotten it easily, I may have been resentful that I lowered it thinking I could have gone heavier.
We don’t know each other. I’ve been lurking here, following your progress, and have developed a lot of respect for you. How you’ve handled this has only increased that respect.
I think your kids are lucky. Lucky in many ways, but one is to see the example you’re setting on how to behave/react when things don’t go as we’d like.
The School of Hard Knocks is a tough task-mistress, but the lessons she teaches are well worthwhile. An advanced degree from her is a point of pride for those of us who’ve earned it and survived.
Ice cream is good. Breyer’s cherry is especially good!
I say Haagen Dazs’ Rum Raisin… ;-H
Sorry to hear about the meet, O. I thought for sure you’d kick ass on this one.
No worries, there’s always November.