Sweet Pollyanna in LaLa land

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[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
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.

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.[/quote]

My daughter was exactly that same kid–never could learn a single lesson vicariously. I am honestly a little shocked she lived through her teen years. She is now 22 and I am finally starting to relax a bit…

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there are no problems so tough that cannot be solved by ice cream. i am a big fan of the HD chocolate peanut butter myself.

7% bodyfat is just wrong for a powerlifter. time to get big baby!

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[quote]mjnewland wrote:
there are no problems so tough that cannot be solved by ice cream. i am a big fan of the HD chocolate peanut butter myself.

7% bodyfat is just wrong for a powerlifter. time to get big baby![/quote]

I had the chocolate mint ice cream last night. The two bowls of ice cream were super set with creamy chocolate vodka mud slide drinks. Very nice.

I don’t think I’m really 7% but I’m likely under 10%. Regardless, I understand I’m starting to resemble a feral cat in both looks and temperament.

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[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
I don’t think I’m really 7% but I’m likely under 10%. Regardless, I understand I’m starting to resemble a feral cat in both looks and temperament.[/quote]

No way!!! You are being way too hard on yourself. Don’t forget the rest part of the equation, you will come back stronger then ever.

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[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]

Its good to hear you are bouncing back. There are about 1,000,000 sappy quotes I can think of, but the reality is that it is easy to keep going when things are good, it takes real character to keep fighting after a couple of let downs. I think you’ll have a great meet in November. I’ll be there too, so it should be a good time. I’m getting excited already!

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[quote]OBoile wrote:
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.

Its good to hear you are bouncing back. There are about 1,000,000 sappy quotes I can think of, but the reality is that it is easy to keep going when things are good, it takes real character to keep fighting after a couple of let downs. I think you’ll have a great meet in November. I’ll be there too, so it should be a good time. I’m getting excited already!

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I have a call in to Jerry Marentette. I may not be able to compete in it because it’s for intermediates and I’m class I. Hoi says he doesn’t think I’d be allowed. I just want to confirm with Jerry. Maybe I can be a guest lifter and not be up for trophies and such. I’ll be there anyway to torture RL.

I was really glad to see you had a good day. It must have been the big breakfast you went for and almost missed setting your rack heights :slight_smile:

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OB_s

Hey bombouts in this case are good, I think moving up a weight class is going to be perfect for you…

In college I was the classic under performer- had all the tools, and none of the application.
I cut far far too much weight- about where you are at now, 125lbs post season when I carried more fat
I did great at 65kg- do the math.

being that lean always leads to over training too- a little not allot of fat goes along way towards recovery injury prevention…

upwards and onwards.

kmc

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[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
OBoile wrote:
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.

Its good to hear you are bouncing back. There are about 1,000,000 sappy quotes I can think of, but the reality is that it is easy to keep going when things are good, it takes real character to keep fighting after a couple of let downs. I think you’ll have a great meet in November. I’ll be there too, so it should be a good time. I’m getting excited already!

I have a call in to Jerry Marentette. I may not be able to compete in it because it’s for intermediates and I’m class I. Hoi says he doesn’t think I’d be allowed. I just want to confirm with Jerry. Maybe I can be a guest lifter and not be up for trophies and such. I’ll be there anyway to torture RL.

I was really glad to see you had a good day. It must have been the big breakfast you went for and almost missed setting your rack heights :slight_smile:
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I actually wondered about that (whether you would be allowed) too. Not due to your class, but because there is no female intermediate catagory they may not have people to do weigh-in etc. for you.

IMO they should just have a small open meet with the contest since it is usually only one flight anyway.

Sensgirl was actually freaking out about that (rack heights)… I went off to the washroom and got my rack heights set first, but she didn’t know that and was looking all over for me in a panic. But yes, I think the big meal helped, or at least tasted good.

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[quote]OBoile wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
OBoile wrote:
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.

Its good to hear you are bouncing back. There are about 1,000,000 sappy quotes I can think of, but the reality is that it is easy to keep going when things are good, it takes real character to keep fighting after a couple of let downs. I think you’ll have a great meet in November. I’ll be there too, so it should be a good time. I’m getting excited already!

I have a call in to Jerry Marentette. I may not be able to compete in it because it’s for intermediates and I’m class I. Hoi says he doesn’t think I’d be allowed. I just want to confirm with Jerry. Maybe I can be a guest lifter and not be up for trophies and such. I’ll be there anyway to torture RL.

I was really glad to see you had a good day. It must have been the big breakfast you went for and almost missed setting your rack heights :slight_smile:

I actually wondered about that (whether you would be allowed) too. Not due to your class, but because there is no female intermediate catagory they may not have people to do weigh-in etc. for you.

IMO they should just have a small open meet with the contest since it is usually only one flight anyway.

Sensgirl was actually freaking out about that (rack heights)… I went off to the washroom and got my rack heights set first, but she didn’t know that and was looking all over for me in a panic. But yes, I think the big meal helped, or at least tasted good.[/quote]

I didn’t even think about that. I don’t think I’ll be lifting. I can’t see crashing the party if I’m the only woman. That sucks. There’s another open in Ottawa but I can’t be bothered to make yet another trip to Ottawa this year. I’ll be there in October with Frank for Provincials but he’s competing and I’m sporting the cheerleading pom poms.

I guess my next meet will be the second provincials in January. I should be good and fat by then.

I’ll still see you all in Emeryville though so watch out. I may just randomly dart out and squat some shit to prove I can.

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It’s looking like I won’t be competing for at least 4 months. Provincials are in January. I’m going to use some of that time to have a bit of fun. By fun I mean some of you should mail me cash to pay for a gigolo so I can work on my starfish skills.

Seriously, I ran into my tenant this evening and rehashed the current bed shitting incident. He’s a professional fighter and also works as a personal trainer at a local crossfit place. He suggested I come out a few times and check it out. I think I may go out on Friday night. I think it will be fun and a bit of conditioning work. I know some other people that go there including my chiropractor. Now’s the time to have a bit of fun and try some new stuff in addition to just getting the heavy loads off my back for a little bit. Plus I love all the rope climbing stuff at cross fit places. I’m part monkey.

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I have to get skinny while you get fat. Let’s just do a flesh exchange.

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[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
I have to get skinny while you get fat. Let’s just do a flesh exchange.[/quote]

Hey, if we can donate excess flesh, I have some to spare. Julie, I have lots of extra breast tissue I am more than willing to donate.

An aside, my sister in law just had her breast reconstructed after mastectomy, using her own ass tissue to do so. I did not know they could do this! It is only a matter of time until those of us with extra really can donate to those without…I have plenty of both to spare.

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“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”
– Malcolm X

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
– George E. Woodberry

It’s nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there–that’s disgrace."
– Edmund Vance Cooke

'Nuff said.

We will look back on this 2 years from now and laugh. Or, we could just laugh at RL now, if it makes you feel better… lol!

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[quote]bunny7568 wrote:
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”
– Malcolm X

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
– George E. Woodberry

It’s nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there–that’s disgrace."
– Edmund Vance Cooke

'Nuff said.

We will look back on this 2 years from now and laugh. Or, we could just laugh at RL now, if it makes you feel better… lol!

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I’ve had a ton of people come out of the woodwork that have bombed twice running. I went to a concert Wednesday night and one of the guys there is a lifter out of Ottawa. We were gabbing and he says “Yeah, I bomb every second meet”.

My ego was my undoing for the last couple of meets because I was so close to a few records. When I get up to 60kg, I won’t be close to anything so I can back off and chill. The deadlift record at 60kg is 205kg (451lbs). I don’t think I’ll be close to that for at least a few more months :slight_smile:

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lift to be happy

be happy to lift

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[quote]bunny7568 wrote:
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”
– Malcolm X

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
– George E. Woodberry

It’s nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there–that’s disgrace."
– Edmund Vance Cooke

'Nuff said.

We will look back on this 2 years from now and laugh. Or, we could just laugh at RL now, if it makes you feel better… lol!

[/quote]

Persistence:

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

– Calvin Coolidge

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[quote]SteelyD wrote:
bunny7568 wrote:
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”
– Malcolm X

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
– George E. Woodberry

It’s nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there–that’s disgrace."
– Edmund Vance Cooke

'Nuff said.

We will look back on this 2 years from now and laugh. Or, we could just laugh at RL now, if it makes you feel better… lol!

Persistence:

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

– Calvin Coolidge[/quote]

That is a great quote and very true. I’ve spent many years watching people who have ‘potential’ that is unrealised. Happily for me, I’ve done what I’ve done through sheer bloody mindedness and a mile wide stubborn streak particularly when I’ve been told I can’t do something or have been knocked back. Most people don’t like it but it’s what keeps many of us moving forward.

I won’t be posting much on my log any more except for the occasional update. I’m still training though. I’m just not posting it here.

My tenant got two tires last night. A 250 and a 450. I’m going to play with them and teach my 15 year old to flip a tire. I hope to get some video.

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[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:

My tenant got two tires last night. A 250 and a 450. I’m going to play with them and teach my 15 year old to flip a tire. I hope to get some video.[/quote]

This is from the Diesel Crew, they generally know their stuff. Can’t wait to see the videos!

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[quote]Ruggerlife wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:

My tenant got two tires last night. A 250 and a 450. I’m going to play with them and teach my 15 year old to flip a tire. I hope to get some video.

This is from the Diesel Crew, they generally know their stuff. Can’t wait to see the videos![/quote]

Thanks for the link RL. I’ve actually watched that video before I did the strongman comp last year. To throw an unusual twist into it, I thought I’d load up on the fruity deliciousness of a pitcher of sangria before I go out and flip them. I just hope the kids stand back.

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This morning I played around with the tires in my yard. I flipped the 250 (hereafter known as Little Boy) back and forth across the yard 6 times. It’s small but was a lot harder than I remember.

I took a whack at Fat Man but was only able to get it part ways off the ground and couldn’t flip it once. That will come soon.

This is a picture of the tires. The small one looks really small and was tough to flip because I couldn’t get my chest down into it. The ones I’d flipped before were larger at the same weight. Damn the dense tires.

Flipping Little Boy: Flipping Little Boy - YouTube

Same again. This one was videoed by my 9 year old and is more funny since there were video and insect issues: YouTube?

Looking at the videos, I guess I need to cut my lawn today.