Hello everybody! I apologize for the hiatus... I'm back though! Anyways, not a lot has happened as far as the deadlift is concerned, so I haven't created a Road to 800 post for that reason. Instead, I was training for a weightlifting meet (Olympic lifting) for the last 3 weeks that was taking place back in Oregon. This isn't something I would normally do -especially for weightlifting- but I did this time because it was a pretty special weightlifting meet. This weightlifting meet was especially cool and special for me because of the fact that my little brother and my little sister would be competing in it and, as a graduation present, I would compete as well. It was great. The meet got even cooler when I found out that a few of my friends from Oregon State were competing in it as well; we ended up having 7 people competing, and it was a great group!
The day of the meet we showed up and weighed in. It seemed like there were a lot of people there, but we were also registering in the hall, so I figured that was contributing to the claustrophobic feeling I was getting. As it would turn out, this weightlifting meet was the biggest I have ever been too and as big as the biggest strongman competition that I had ever been too...there were 49 competitors! That is an unheard of amount of people, especially in Oregon (one of the promoters told me that at the first meet they put on this year out in Oregon, a mere 6 people showed up and competed...yes, 6 people). It was a well-ran show, however, and went very smoothly.
After the weigh-ins, the group of us found and claimed a platform for us to warm up on. The first person to compete was my little sister, who did great! She went out and power snatch 50kgs as well as power clean and jerked 65kgs; with more training and some technical work, I expect to see big numbers from her. I watched my friends Van, Amy, Mike, and Eric compete next along with my little brother. They all did awesome! It was Van's first time competing and he went 5 for 6 on the day which is very good. Amy did a great job as well, going head-to-head with a woman that is one of America's best lifters. Mike did an awesome job setting 2(?) PR's on the day in spite of being a lot of pain with his hip. Eric, though I didn't really know him before this day, apparently went to my high school and was a couple of years behind me -so that was a cool fact to find out, I guess. He did a really good job on the day, winning his weight class, and is a very strong kid. I was able to watch my brother next. I love watching him compete; he is an aggressive competitor. He hit 100kgs and 125kgs and went 4 for 6 on the day. I was awesome watching him clean and jerk 125kgs because he had missed it the rep before and had the mental capacity to come back from that and crush it on the next rep.
As far as my lifting is concerned, it went very well...and better than expected in the snatch. I was able to achieve a 5 for 6 day, which is better than I have ever achieved in competition previously, so that was cool. I ended up snatching 130kgs and tying for first in that lift; although due to my lighter bodyweight, I won. I was surprised that I hit 130kgs on snatch because it didn't really feel as smooth in the warm ups as it had the first time I had hit it; but, I was able to go out there and get under it which was a lot of fun. In the clean and jerk, I was able to win the lift, but I barely missed a state record. The state record was 170kgs, which I was planning on having as my 3rd attempt, but the announcer let everyone know that 170kgs was the current state record, so hearing that I decided to try to beat it...so I had them up it to 172.5kgs. I clean it fairly easily, but I barely missed the jerk. I'll have it next year.
Looking forward, I plan to only lift 3x a week this summer and rest up before competing at nationals. I don't forsee any competitions due to the costs of them (I spent a lot on the competitions that I have done this year) and would like to come away from nationals with no lingering debt from the event. Once it is time to train for nationals though, it will bump back up to 5x a week. The lifting will still be hard this summer, just not as often. I'll update more on that and my thoughts on how it is working each week as well.
Here is a link to the video of my competition out in Oregon:
Eugene Classic Weightlifting Meet
Thanks for reading everybody!
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