big day for 45

Another day in the books.  And look at me go.. two blogs in a row! Wahoo! Today was a pretty good day the weigh room included.  On a slightly side note to the lifting aspect of my life I started at my new site with the Y... moving from a site with about 15 kids to a site with 50. It's a whole new ball game there. New kids, new staff, new place, new policy, new everything.  I'm a little nervous to be set free on the place! :-/

Back to lifting.  Today the team was set and scheduled to max with snatch and after a stellar max out session on Friday with clean and jerk today had similar results- fantastic! lots of 10k+ prs and ridiculous performances that were so much fun to watch! yay!

With my own little self I had a 'reagular' snatch workout with a few added twists.  I started working with both hands on the pvc pipe just working on turning over the bar at the top of the lift.  Once I did that a few times I went to the training bar and did the same.  After that I moved onto the women's bar and slowly moved down my legs.. starting just below the hip.. then moving above the knee then from the floor.  Ellyn and I slowly started to add weight and take full snatches.  I was trying to hide my excitement with each addition of weight, but i'm not sure how good of a job i did :)  And for me it sometimes is hard to balance my competitiveness and desire to get better and the other part of me that doesn't want to wreck or ruin my wrist for 5, 10, 15pounds... or even kilos..  As of now, the bigger and smarter part of me is focused on getting my wrist back to better than normal.  I am more focused on getting things taken care of healed than I am on snatching 90 and clean and jerking 115.  or whatever numbers may be in my head or anyone else's head.  So right now, today, i am being smart about my health, recovery and training.  It needs to stay that way, but the only thing I can do is focus on today.  So today I win. :)

While I was busy winning I was also able to slowly work my way up to 45kilos with my snatch. NO videos of it today though... there will be more to come, so don't worry.  But I just wanted to brag on myself for a little bit because I am happy and proud and excited I was able to snatch my 45 kilos today.  I have even started writing my 'recovery numbers' on the white board in red pen... so i'm slowly working my way back up to and past where I was before surgery. one day at a time. today was a good step towards all of those good and positive and exciting (have i used that word too many times in this post..?) things...

therapy/recovery day tomorrow!