Haven't been blogging for a while because of work, but I sure as hell made it to the competition.
That's right, the RFM Spring Cleaning competition. My first official Olympic Weightlifting competition.
We each had three tries to put up our best weight. The girls did faaaaaaaaaaantanstic. Lori and Patty won first and third place respectively.
Here they are in the winner's photo.
Ikaika did awesome, pulled up 260 bls or rather he got under 260. Damn it I was jealous. Here's a good pic of him getting under the bar.
See, when the weight gets too heavy you gotta get underneath it because you can't just pull that damn thing all the way up. Get under it and lift just like Ikaika's doing.
For some reason I have a mental block. It's damn scary. So I'm trying to pull the weight up as high as possible and squat as LEAST as possible. Like so:
Yeah, that technique works up to a certain weight. This is 185. Check out the struggle on my face for 210.
Yeah, got harder. Can you guess what happened when I tried 220? Let's just say I'm glad there's no picture for it.
I failed. AND IT SUCKEDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I dropped the weight and did like a funky karate kick jump and yelled ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! In front of everybody. I couldn't help it, I was so disappointed.
Man, I know I can do more weight, I just need to get that technique down. I was so pissed on Saturday.
Then again this is way better than when I first started. I couldn't even bend my wrists back. Just gotta keep it in perspective.
Maybe that's why I was so ready for a WOD today. It looked short and terrible, just what the doctor ordered. It's a seven minute ladder, one thruster, one pull-up, then two thrusters, and two pull-ups, then three and three and four and four and so on until you die.
Oh man, that's exactly what happened. The first three sets were okay then once I hit four thrusters I was like, "Yeah, this is getting hard."
By the time I hit the 8th round I was breathing hard and had a hard time gripping the bar to pull myself up. The thrusters were terrible and I knew there was know way (and no time) to get a 9th round.
But 8 is enough. At least it was today. Good job everyone.
Later peeps,
Rod
ps - If you haven't heard Bruce tell you the stories of his youth and how he used to scrap in the streets you're missing the funniest stand up routine since Sinbad. He's as funny as he is strong so you know he's funny. Good times. Good job Bump and Kristi, can't wait for the next competition.
That's right, the RFM Spring Cleaning competition. My first official Olympic Weightlifting competition.
We each had three tries to put up our best weight. The girls did faaaaaaaaaaantanstic. Lori and Patty won first and third place respectively.
Here they are in the winner's photo.
Ikaika did awesome, pulled up 260 bls or rather he got under 260. Damn it I was jealous. Here's a good pic of him getting under the bar.
For some reason I have a mental block. It's damn scary. So I'm trying to pull the weight up as high as possible and squat as LEAST as possible. Like so:
I failed. AND IT SUCKEDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I dropped the weight and did like a funky karate kick jump and yelled ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! In front of everybody. I couldn't help it, I was so disappointed.
Man, I know I can do more weight, I just need to get that technique down. I was so pissed on Saturday.
Then again this is way better than when I first started. I couldn't even bend my wrists back. Just gotta keep it in perspective.
Maybe that's why I was so ready for a WOD today. It looked short and terrible, just what the doctor ordered. It's a seven minute ladder, one thruster, one pull-up, then two thrusters, and two pull-ups, then three and three and four and four and so on until you die.
Oh man, that's exactly what happened. The first three sets were okay then once I hit four thrusters I was like, "Yeah, this is getting hard."
By the time I hit the 8th round I was breathing hard and had a hard time gripping the bar to pull myself up. The thrusters were terrible and I knew there was know way (and no time) to get a 9th round.
But 8 is enough. At least it was today. Good job everyone.
Later peeps,
Rod
ps - If you haven't heard Bruce tell you the stories of his youth and how he used to scrap in the streets you're missing the funniest stand up routine since Sinbad. He's as funny as he is strong so you know he's funny. Good times. Good job Bump and Kristi, can't wait for the next competition.
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