Well I'm having a bit of a moment... so I wanted to try to convince myself I HAVE made progress in this sport. Not just in numbers, but in dedication and form and LOVE and all those other things that are important... Some days I just feel like I could be and SHOULD BE doing more....
So anyway.... today I thought I would journey back in time...
....browse through a few old blogs and see what I could come up with regarding where I was a little while back in time...
Here is a video of me today (this is 205)...
Worked on my sumo deadlift last night. This is not the MOST weight I have deadlifted, but it IS the most I have pulled using the sumo form rather than conventional.
So I will share that video first...
Then - I tell ya what - let's compare this video to the video of my first competition. Last December. Bless my heart I had NO idea at that point what I was getting myself into.
But I DO remember feeling decent about my deadlift until some other girl came up behind me and pulled 300 pounds. It was that day that I found my edge... and something to work for. It was that day that the fire was started in my soul to WANT to go back and be better than I was before!
Here is my first ever deadlift competition.... 195 pounds My personal record coming out of the gate!
And then - lets compare apples to apples.
The first video I shared is the most current, and it's SUMO deadlift. Here is my most current deadlift using the conventional form - which is what I used in that video from my first meet (the 195 pull). Amazing how much different my form is in just 6 months.
THIS video is my all time personal RECORD for deadlift. 240 pounds
So anyway - the point being that I HAVE made progress. I have made it in numbers and in other ways too. But sometimes I spend all this time running around Instagram and the interwebz and I get frustrated thinking there is so much more I could and should do....
And I could and SHOULD be so much further along and better than I am.
Yes - I AM my own worst enemy.
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