Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
keep on truckin'!
77.3 this morning. I'm starting to think making weight is a possibility! woot! I'm making breakfast right now (eggs, broccoli and cheese) then going to take my car in to get it serviced/winterized/fixed and off to practice. A more detailed blog to follow- most likely sometime this evening
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Getting closer
78.2 getting closer. Hopefully tomorrow ill be in the 77s.. Nothing like doing things at the last min! I'm motivated and focused for getting into the 75 weight class. I have a feeling these last few kilos will be the most 'enjoyable'... but it'll be worth it. one day at a time.
a post a day keeps the supa's away!
So I just missed my one blog post a day... by 12 min, but it is 12:12 so everyone gets to make a wish!! :) But I don't have time to blog a ton, so here's my weight from today... 78.8k getting lower... still got some more to go, but this is a good start on teh 75k train..
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Skinny Supa
For those of you who know weightlifting, or me, or a little of both, you probably know there are different weight classes for both men and women in Olympic lifting. I am in the super-heavyweight class: 75+ that means I compete against anyone 165 pounds and up. Most recently I am 174 pounds or 79kilos. When I compete at National meets in the 75+ weight class I am the smallest one by a TON (pun intended!). Being 20, 30, 40, 50 kilos lighter than everyone else makes it nearly impossible to be competitive with those girls. So it makes most sense to drop the extra 10ish pounds and compete with girls closer in weight. And that's what I'm doing. Dropping the next 10 pounds for the Trinity meet and keeping that weight off for the American Open at the beginning of December. It's completely do-able...
I've toyed with different ideas on how to most successfully drop weight for the next meets. I've thought maybe a little public humiliation via my blog could be helpful.. but I think I'm too chicken for that! My idea for public humiliation was to put pictures of myself on my blog in the typical "before" and "after" fashion that is so prevalent with any weight-loss ad or gimmick. But like I said I don't think that kind of humiliation would be good! I'd probably start emotionally eating- and that's going in the wrong direction!
With that said, I am 17 days away from my next meet and I have 4 kilos to lose over the next 17 days. When I was dropping weight for Nationals this summer Ellyn said something to me that stuck... Sometimes being hungry keeps you hungry... At first I thought that was the weirdest thing ever. and sounded miserable. (it still is miserable actually) But in order to reach my own goals and the potential I believe I have.. dropping weight is vital, crucial, of the utmost importance, I think you get the idea... For the next 17 days there will be a blog every day. even if it is just a number. I am trying to be more accountable with my eating and my weight and this is going to be one of the ways I keep track of it all.. and y'all can too! teamwork...? lol
As I get more put together I will put more on my blog...
I've toyed with different ideas on how to most successfully drop weight for the next meets. I've thought maybe a little public humiliation via my blog could be helpful.. but I think I'm too chicken for that! My idea for public humiliation was to put pictures of myself on my blog in the typical "before" and "after" fashion that is so prevalent with any weight-loss ad or gimmick. But like I said I don't think that kind of humiliation would be good! I'd probably start emotionally eating- and that's going in the wrong direction!
With that said, I am 17 days away from my next meet and I have 4 kilos to lose over the next 17 days. When I was dropping weight for Nationals this summer Ellyn said something to me that stuck... Sometimes being hungry keeps you hungry... At first I thought that was the weirdest thing ever. and sounded miserable. (it still is miserable actually) But in order to reach my own goals and the potential I believe I have.. dropping weight is vital, crucial, of the utmost importance, I think you get the idea... For the next 17 days there will be a blog every day. even if it is just a number. I am trying to be more accountable with my eating and my weight and this is going to be one of the ways I keep track of it all.. and y'all can too! teamwork...? lol
Here are more videos from the last week...
As I get more put together I will put more on my blog...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Back to Blogging... Again.
I'm Back! After a hiatus with Maddy and transitioning back to being coached via text and getting ready for Maddy and a little bit of laziness I am here again. I think there is too much I have slacked on with workouts to go over them all, but it's been an interesting transition back to not having a coach. Don't worry. Don't worry. Don't worry. Ellyn is still my coach but she's being cool and is in Europe competing in the World Master's Olympic Lifting Meet of the Universe.. okay, so I added the last part, but she's over there being an all star so she can't be here for us little people. ;)
I missed practice yesterday because I was taking Maddy to the airport so she could go back to the worst state :). Because of that I had a combination of yesterday's practice and today's mixed together and in the e-mail Ellyn sent me his morning, "I'm going to have you do all your favorites between tuesday and wednesday." ugh. that means no fun for me! Snatch pause, snatch, jerk balances, and my freaking most favorite things.... RDLs. yay. not.
Snatch pauses with a snatch immediately following the pauses. It went okay. I was getting into weird positions right off the floor, my hips were coming up and the knees and shenanigans with the feet (which we all know are from the knees snapping back... ugsdjfaklh trying to stop doing thattttt) Here's a video of my snatch pauses and a few of the actual and full speed lift.
Jerk Balances at one point were lower on my list of enjoyable exercises than clean and jerk. But now I've considered it a challenge and have accepted the challenge of getting better at these. And I think I have gotten better.. okay I know I have. When I first did these on my own it was not good at all. So frustrated, lowering the weights, getting told to increase the weights, failing at the lifts even the jerk portion of the lift at more than 15kilos less than my clean and jerk PR. that's a great confidence booster. but Ellyn came in the next day and fixed me right up. SO now it's my own personal motivation to be better than this lift. For some reason I do well when I put a personal challenge on myself to get better at something I'm awful at. Does that make sense? i dont think it does, so let me try again. I dont like losing, and when I've been beaten by something (a lift, a team, an exercise, a person, a game etc) I am motivated to not let that happen again. There, that sounds better. A more accurate description of how I feel about this exercise... I had been beaten by the jerk balances and I was not going to let it happen again. I wasn't going to have another awful day with them. I was going to get better. and I wasn't going to be satisfied until I wasbetter the best. I didn't quite make it to being the best today, but I got closer. Here's a video of the jerk balances and jerks I did today. I will try and find/put together other videos from previous weeks so you can (hopefully!) see the difference and improvement between the weeks.
That's about it for now!! I've got 2 weeks worth of videos to edit and send out, so I've better get going! But, I'm back and happy to be blogging again!
I missed practice yesterday because I was taking Maddy to the airport so she could go back to the worst state :). Because of that I had a combination of yesterday's practice and today's mixed together and in the e-mail Ellyn sent me his morning, "I'm going to have you do all your favorites between tuesday and wednesday." ugh. that means no fun for me! Snatch pause, snatch, jerk balances, and my freaking most favorite things.... RDLs. yay. not.
Snatch pauses with a snatch immediately following the pauses. It went okay. I was getting into weird positions right off the floor, my hips were coming up and the knees and shenanigans with the feet (which we all know are from the knees snapping back... ugsdjfaklh trying to stop doing thattttt) Here's a video of my snatch pauses and a few of the actual and full speed lift.
Jerk Balances at one point were lower on my list of enjoyable exercises than clean and jerk. But now I've considered it a challenge and have accepted the challenge of getting better at these. And I think I have gotten better.. okay I know I have. When I first did these on my own it was not good at all. So frustrated, lowering the weights, getting told to increase the weights, failing at the lifts even the jerk portion of the lift at more than 15kilos less than my clean and jerk PR. that's a great confidence booster. but Ellyn came in the next day and fixed me right up. SO now it's my own personal motivation to be better than this lift. For some reason I do well when I put a personal challenge on myself to get better at something I'm awful at. Does that make sense? i dont think it does, so let me try again. I dont like losing, and when I've been beaten by something (a lift, a team, an exercise, a person, a game etc) I am motivated to not let that happen again. There, that sounds better. A more accurate description of how I feel about this exercise... I had been beaten by the jerk balances and I was not going to let it happen again. I wasn't going to have another awful day with them. I was going to get better. and I wasn't going to be satisfied until I was
That's about it for now!! I've got 2 weeks worth of videos to edit and send out, so I've better get going! But, I'm back and happy to be blogging again!
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