Mini Powerlifting Meet!

CFPH hosted their first (annual?) powerlifting meet on Saturday.  It was so much fun to lift with all the amazingly strong girls at the gym.  My scores were at the bottom of the pack (which I totally expected) but I still managed to set some new PRs for myself.  It was also interesting to see how I would react to a competition setting, even if that setting was in my own gym surrounded by athletes I know.  In other words, about 1000 times less intimidating than the FRCF Olympic meet.

Here are my scores:
Back Squat - 73 kg (current PR was 62)
Bench Press - 30 kg (awful)
Deadlift - 94 kg (current PR was 82)
Bodyweight - 64 kg

I made all three lifts on my back squat and was feeling great.  The women were all very supportive of each other, cheering every single lift made...even the missed lifts.

My bench press, however, was a DISASTER.  This meet was the 2nd time I had done a bench press in my life, so I'm not comfortable with the lift at all.  When you consider that I have naturally weak floppy arms, well....it wasn't pretty.   My first lift was at 30kg, something I knew I could do.  My second lift was 33kg, but it was judged a "no lift" because I didn't touch my chest.  For my third lift, I decided to go up to 35kg and just bombed.  I touched my chest with the bar and then couldn't push the weight up more than 2 inches.  Keep in mind that 35kg was by far the lowest weight bench pressed by any competitor.  Every other woman STARTED higher than 35kg and had at least 2 successful lifts.  So yeah, a little humiliating.  I honestly had a hard time shaking it off and felt super nervous going into my deadlifts.

Luckily I was able to pull all three deadlifts up successfully starting at my current PR of 82 up to a new PR of 94.  It was a really fun day!

Here are some photos so you can see my weird lifting face...apparently I do an impression of a blowfish.

73 kg squat

Meditating with 94 kg OMMMMMMMM

All the strong ladies.  And me.