New Journal...
The obstacle course stuff is on the back burner, since I decided to try the july 2006 competition instead of the one next month due to the slew of injuries or almost-injuries I kept having while trying to train for it in a hurry.
That being said, I've started to go out to Long Island a couple of times a week with Patrick to learn the Olympic lifts. I have to admit at first I just wanted to try because I always want to do what P is doing, and I always want to learn everything. But I wasn't really THAT into it. It was just something else to do.
But after going to his first meet, and then seeing other girls doing it (and seeing how few girls there are in the sport!), I kinda developed a little bit more of an interest. P started teaching me at our gym and I felt hopeless. Like my body is just not programmed to do these things, and I am too old to learn. But after going out there a few times, and after working on some of the technique at our gym here in the city, I have improved a bit.
Don't get me wrong, by my ridiculously high standards, I still suck! However, everyone has commented on how much I've improved from the first time they saw me stumbling on the platform. And I know, also. I know I've improved.
If anything, this is a sport that, like my first time dieting down last year, will teach me patience and serve as a constant reminder and motivator to be consistent with my training. In addition to that, since I want to eventually compete in the lightest weight class (48kg), it will also serve as a way for me to HAVE to watch my calories and stay on top of my diet A "must" for someone like me, who occasionally binges and then has a hard time getting back on the wagon.
The goal for this journal: to be doing both the clean and jerk and the snatch with some kind of profieciency in about a month, and take it from there. The coach said he would like me to be ready for some meet in november. I think I can do it. There are no hurdles in this one !
The workouts for this will include two days a week of technique work in Long Island usually (if no training in long island that week, then here in the city), and two days of strength and muscle maintenance work (or vanity work as patrick referred to it haha!). In addition to this, I will include sprints, mostly on a track, and when it gets too cold, perhaps in the aerobics studio.
My diet will consist of mostly clean food, with one day a week where i may indulge in pizza and/or ice cream. The four days in vegas coming up will not count.
So, as the coach said to me this morning, I am going from lifting weights, to becoming a weightlifter.
The obstacle course stuff is on the back burner, since I decided to try the july 2006 competition instead of the one next month due to the slew of injuries or almost-injuries I kept having while trying to train for it in a hurry.
That being said, I've started to go out to Long Island a couple of times a week with Patrick to learn the Olympic lifts. I have to admit at first I just wanted to try because I always want to do what P is doing, and I always want to learn everything. But I wasn't really THAT into it. It was just something else to do.
But after going to his first meet, and then seeing other girls doing it (and seeing how few girls there are in the sport!), I kinda developed a little bit more of an interest. P started teaching me at our gym and I felt hopeless. Like my body is just not programmed to do these things, and I am too old to learn. But after going out there a few times, and after working on some of the technique at our gym here in the city, I have improved a bit.
Don't get me wrong, by my ridiculously high standards, I still suck! However, everyone has commented on how much I've improved from the first time they saw me stumbling on the platform. And I know, also. I know I've improved.
If anything, this is a sport that, like my first time dieting down last year, will teach me patience and serve as a constant reminder and motivator to be consistent with my training. In addition to that, since I want to eventually compete in the lightest weight class (48kg), it will also serve as a way for me to HAVE to watch my calories and stay on top of my diet A "must" for someone like me, who occasionally binges and then has a hard time getting back on the wagon.
The goal for this journal: to be doing both the clean and jerk and the snatch with some kind of profieciency in about a month, and take it from there. The coach said he would like me to be ready for some meet in november. I think I can do it. There are no hurdles in this one !
The workouts for this will include two days a week of technique work in Long Island usually (if no training in long island that week, then here in the city), and two days of strength and muscle maintenance work (or vanity work as patrick referred to it haha!). In addition to this, I will include sprints, mostly on a track, and when it gets too cold, perhaps in the aerobics studio.
My diet will consist of mostly clean food, with one day a week where i may indulge in pizza and/or ice cream. The four days in vegas coming up will not count.
So, as the coach said to me this morning, I am going from lifting weights, to becoming a weightlifter.