Kurap.

Ha!

I did my first abs workout of the year 2008 this morning. 2 sets crunch and 2 sets reverse crunch. My abs cramped after that. Worse than newbies.

Your abs really bulk.

LoL, save the sarcasm. At least im being bold enough to post my photos to get some decent pointers.

I learned that i am a super newb at this. I did some really dumb things since it was my first time. Also being sick earlier in the week made me lose a few pounds so i weighed in at 76.8kg. At least i didn't have to lift at the very bottom of the 85 kg class.

I started snatch with 60 like planned. It felt so light and easy cause of the adrenaline i threw it up on almost straight legs. I then got so excited by the ease of it i dropped it before the dang down signal!!! So i failed that one but it was so easy i moved up to 70, then 72. Neither were a PR but I was just wanting my first competition to go well.

On the C&J i started with 80. Once again easy money. So easy i decided to go for a pr at 90. BAM! Once again no problem but i held it up for like 3 or 4 seconds and i was getting confused about why i hadn't recieved a down signal. So i somehow reasoned in my head that i must have not been paying attention and missed the down signal and threw it down. I got the technique fail on that one cause my left heel was was even with the ball of my right foot. I guess that was very newb of me but i thought my feet were side by side. Either way 90 was real easy so i went ahead and decided to do 95. I cleaned it no problem and was so excited by the clean i tarded up my jerk bad by not using good form and pressed it out.

So there you have it 76.8kg weight in , 72kg snatch and 80kg C&J. Pretty weak lifts but i have only been doing this 4 months. I took away a few good things from this. 1. I had a killer time at my first meet and it has really motivated me to train harder.
2. One of the judges told me i was much stronger than the weights i was using and i power snatched and cleaned everything. (not because i have bad technique i have a great coach, he tells me to meet the bar where ever it comes to, i just use lighter weights cause i am new) So i reckon i got lots of room to go up from here.

3. My wife said watching me turned her on and i got laid that night.