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Watch me royally fuck up mid set and somehow recover with 195 😂 ok for real tho people at the gym be pissing me off today, some old dude told me about my knee tracking and I’m like “thx I know I’m working on it” and then some old lady told me I was taking too long on the squat rack and was making people mad 🙃like bitch fucking sorry I’m actually putting in work, k bye
Tapering for a meet is officially the weirdest feeling.
Basically it’s a combination of:
-Decreased volume of workload (from lifting 5x weekly to 3x weekly, with less sets each workout)
-High intensity sets
-Extremely high amounts of nerves/anxiety
All these things combined leave me with this feeling like all of my nerves are on fire/I’m about to crawl out of my skin.
9 days to go...
2 weeks into meet prep
-quit cutting cuz I got lazy + did mot have the time to give it a good effort -took 3 days off this week to enjoy doing some non gym related stuff & hang out with friends I dont feel bad about any of it because there's more to life than just this. I see people I look up to talking about how they never miss a workout but like... I am because I like to have a balance and its okay. I can catch up and its not the end of the world.
255 felt beyond easy today, mind you my max is 260…thinking I might be able to pull 275 for the meet 😅
Just some of the eats I had over the holidays (I’ve been real busy so hence the lack of updates. My bad).
I’m two weeks out from my first (of probably many) Powerlifting competition. At the beginning of December I weighed roughly 130lbs/59kg, as of yesterday I’m chillin at 126.5lbs/57.5kg.
That’s right, you heard me correctly - I lost weight over Christmas/New Years, that time of year where everyone usually gains weight. The best thing about it was I didn’t have to skip out on the holiday eating. This is why I tell people that losing weight isn’t nearly as bad and what it seems, you just can’t go ham and eat everything you want all at the once.
I also didn’t experience a dip in energy, I kept my calories fairly high so I could squeeze in a cookie or two if I wanted. I wasn’t super hungry either (which is a blessing because I am captain hunger).
A lot of folks at the beginning of the New Year always hop on all these fad diets - cut out this, cut out that, eat a whackload of “x”, go on slim fast or nutrisystem or some other boxed nonsense, or join weightwatchers. You don’t have to torture yourself with “whole 30” or some other restrictive nonsense - what fun is that? No wonder these folks make a killing in cash, too many people buy into this bull and that’s scary.
Honestly if I were to point at anyone or anybody to start someone in the right direction, I’d say the @thefitnesschef over on Instagram is a lovely source of knowledge. Certainly puts everything into perspective for the average person. And before someone asks - no he did not sponsor me to shill him.
Anyways good luck to everyone.
125 moving fast and smooth 👏🏼
