Training Week 2, Day 3

Max effort day.  But try telling that to my shoulders.   This is the first time I failed to reach a new PR on both lifts.  I hope I haven't hit a snatch plateau at 32kg.

Snatch - 32 kg

Clean + Jerk - 48 kg (new PR!)

I sometimes wish another girl was training with me.  It's definitely fun to lift with Neil & Gabe, but since they use the same bar there is a natural back-and-forth that just doesn't exist for me.  Not to mention they lift much MUCH heavier weights, so it's slightly humiliating to fall down on my butt trying to hoist a measly 30kg.  That happened twice today.

Before class, Neil was joking about how I was "hand-picked" by him.  

"That's a lot of pressure," I say, laughing nervously.  And then,  "Actually, it's not."  

"It's totally not." 

I am so new to this that there really aren't many expectations.   And a big part of him "choosing" me was that I have a flexible job that allows me to lift during the day.

"I'm probably going to come in last," I say.

"You probably are.  But you're going to go up there and do your lifts with amazing form."

That really is my main goal.  I want to lift at least 2 weights I choose for the competition.  I know failures happen, but if I'm going to lift the smallest amount of weight in the entire competition, I better lift the CRAP out of those little weights.