{"id":231,"date":"2008-09-30T21:40:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T21:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2008-10-14T11:43:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T11:43:38","slug":"another-weight-lifting-competition-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/30\/another-weight-lifting-competition-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Weight Lifting Competition on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago I went to my first Olympic Weightlifting competition at West Wythenshawe<\/a> and on Sunday there’s another one, which I was really looking forward to. I don’t know if the BWLA guys will be there again, I hope so.\u00a0 The thing is, I don’t feel ready for it at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Having done the gladiators trial<\/a> last week, I didn’t go to Bethnal Green Weightlifting Club<\/a> as I would have normally done. Then having come away from the gladiators tryout with various bumps and bruises and a sprained wrist and ankle, I decided to take the week off doing any Crossfit workouts<\/a> too. So today I went back to Bethnal Green, having done very little exercise for 10 days<\/strong>. I’ve also not been eating too well this last week if I’m honest.<\/p>\n

Worse than that, having watched the Snatch and Clean & Jerk DVDs<\/a> I bought last week, I find myself wanting to change my style, particularly with the Snatch. The big thing I was doing wrong, which to be fair I knew about already, is impacting the bar with my thighs, rather than above the family jewels if you know what I mean, specifically above the pubis bone<\/a> (about the top of your zipper).<\/p>\n

So I was trying it tonight and of course, when you change any style in a sport, things get worse before it gets better. So tonight I struggled to snatch just 50kg<\/strong> which I dropped 3 times before doing a ropey power snatch to finish. Not a good situation to be in 5 days before a competition! Further the 6 pairs of clean and jerk practice at 75kg felt heavy and not at all a formality, but then I suppose that’s a good thing, 75kg IS heavy after all!<\/p>\n

I’m intending to go back again tomorrow, hopefully I’ll feel better then. Oh and I’ve decided to stop being a wuss and taking the bus, so I ran the 2 miles to the gym tonight<\/strong>. Well I actually managed about 75% of the way, that was with a backpack with weightlifting shoes, water bottle and jumper, and walking the last bit was a good idea to recover before I arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few months ago I went to my first Olympic Weightlifting competition at West Wythenshawe and on Sunday there’s another one, which I was really looking forward to. I don’t know if the BWLA guys will be there again, I hope so.\u00a0 The thing is, I don’t feel ready for it at all. Having done […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,115],"tags":[77,113,112,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-olympic-weightlifting","8":"tag-bethnal-green","9":"tag-bwla","10":"tag-weightlifting-competition","11":"tag-west-wythenshawe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}