Back On the Platform

I am for the most part a competition lifter.  I like to show off, I like people to know how strong I am, I don’t necessarily like them to watch, but I want them to know I have muscles.  Therefore in the gym my heavy lifts are not always as amazing as they would be in competition.  It’s the same reason the best papers I’ve written have been written between 11pm and 5am the day they are due.  No matter how far in advance I start the bulk of the writing seems to get done them.  Hence why over the next week I will put in my full days at work, go to training and then go home and attempt to continue writing the draft of my co-op term report…until Thursday night when most of it will probably get written to be handing in Friday.

Training yesterday also turned on my show off gene, or more so my I’ll prove to you I can do.  A training mate was teasing that the weight I was squatting (105kg) was light and she could jerk it for a double.  I was only doing it for a triple, but had previously done it for an easy 4 last week.  The training mate, we’ll call her I. said she bet I couldn’t do 105 for 5.   I’m not a big fan of people telling me I can’t do something, I’ve been called stubborn and belligerent more times than I count.  So I went up took 105 off the rack, did 1-2-3 paused 4-5 no problem.  Coach wasn’t super happy, but understood that I had to prove something to I. and myself.  He also said something interesting on Friday about training me differently.  He wants to see if being a little tough on me would help, so he says from now on he will “train me like a Nigerian”.

The actual workout yesterday was

  Overall it was a decent workout.  Snatches were light, but we’re really focusing on speed and finishing the pull.  I have a tendency to cut my pull just a bit short, and with the weights I’m snatching I can still handle it, but eventually when 90 or 95 kgs is on the bar I’ll need every inch.