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🔥 59-y/o barbell-heaving broad⁣ ⁣
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My first-ever hype video and I could not have chosen a better meet to pre-order one! Thank you @stellarshotsmedia for beautifully capturing some of my best moments at 2025 @powerlifting.united Nationals! What a wonderful day this was.

Again—and always—thank you @joesullivan_aod for being there, being an absolutely integral part of how that day unfolded, and orchestrating so much success for me.

I’m still flying high on the satisfaction of the goals I hit here… but new goals are already on the books and the work has begun to achieve them.

That’s one of the very, very best things about this sport, aside from the beautiful community (especially over here on the Masters side—all of you fellow lifters who supported and cheered for me, you know who you are 💛): the sky is literally the limit and there’s always room to keep pushing as long as body and mind are willing/able.

#OffSeasonChronicles #HereWeGoAgain #badassbroad #TeamHotFlash #AdaptOrDieCollective #nobodycaresworkharder #hwpo #relentless #onerepatatime #earnednotgiven #headdowneyesforward #trusttheprocess #powerlifting #masterspowerlifting #mastersathlete #fitover40 #fitover50 #girlswhopowerlift #womenwholift #womenwhopowerlift #powerliftingwomen #girlswholiftheavy #momswhopowerlift taken in Teaneck Marriott At Glenpointe by @mirslam

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There will be millions of people at more than 2000 protests around the country and the world tomorrow. Find one here and join the fight against fascism and cruelty. https://www.nokings.org/⁣
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#nokings #nodictators #antifascist #democracy #resist by @mirslam

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a year ago

100kg/220lbs for smooth triples.

Shoulder is improving but much more slowly than I’d like. And this past week also brought the pleasure of battling a cold.

But deadlifts are showing up and we take our victories where we find them. 🧱🛠️

On a related note, nice young guy very purposefully came over to me during my training to tell me what an insanely hard worker I am, and that if the young guys at the gym put in even half the effort I do, they’d all be insanely strong. “You’re absolutely killing it,” he said.

Made my day—no, my week. Love the @liftvt community.

And it reinforces a point I’ve made before: be generous with compliments like this. They are incredibly powerful.

#deadlifts #deadliftday #TeamHotFlash #masterspowerlifting #bekind by @mirslam

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Shoulder was still jacked up from the weekend so I swapped D1 and D2 this week, because D1 is all upper body and I couldn’t even lift my arm over my head. 😂 ⁣
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I’d been hoping to hit these SSB triples for 192 lbs but they felt kind of heavy so I stayed at 182. Followed that up with three sets of barbell hip thrusts at 185 lbs, one shown, which also felt heavy. ⁣
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Welp, turned out I was incubating a cold, which set in a few hours later and which I’m just starting to get over now, so… that explains it. ⁣
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Still, very happy to be banging out SSB squats at this weight, hitting reasonable depth AND staying pretty upright in the process. (For those who have never used this type of bar, it’s cambered, meaning the weight is biased forward and makes you prone to fold on the way up.) ⁣
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If I can actually get my arm into position to comp squat in five weeks, I’m encouraged by the potential this implies. ⁣
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Sadly, right now I’m 50/50 at best that’s going to happen, but we’ll see. Getting this shoulder healed and being 100% for Nationals in April is a much higher priority than one local meet. ⁣
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So is just having a functioning left shoulder, TBH. Turns out I kind of need that arm for things like driving. ⁣
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#TeamHotFlash #Squats #SSBsquats #Masterspowerlifting #rotatorcuffuckery⁣ by @mirslam

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Turns out giving a bench liftoff is a no-no when you’re nursing a rotator cuff injury. Found that out the hard way this morning, just as I was finally feeling better from the Monday bed fiasco. Oops.⁣
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So, can’t do much with my arm and I’m guessing that’ll last another day or two. ⁣Amazing massage (as always) by @allthingsblanka fortuitously scheduled for this afternoon definitely helped though.
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Luckily, on deadlift day arms are just hooks. Three sets from my 6x3 at 95kg/209lbs, all RPE 7.⁣
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Gonna baby the hell out of this shoulder for a while because it’s apparently on a hair-trigger to throw a fit at the least little thing. ⁣
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#deadliftday #deadlifts #Masterspowerlifting #TeamHotFlash by @mirslam

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10 days ago

I may have a gimpy shoulder, but that doesn’t mean we stop training, and it definitely doesn’t stop us from getting stronger. ⁣
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I had a big setback a couple of days ago when, of all things, I moved the wrong way lying in bed and massive pain crackled through my shoulder and arm (which had been improving up until then) and left me barely functional for almost 48 hours. Wasn’t even sure I’d be able to load plates on the bar. ⁣
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Well, turns out it wasn’t a problem, and I killed these squat triples. I swapped a couple of other exercises that would have put stress on the painful area but otherwise trained as usual, and also got small PRs on hip thrusts and ATG DB lunges. ⁣My bench may be on pause, but these legs are growing, baby. ⁣

Shoulder is recovering from the setback too; I’m doing PT, don’t know how it’ll turn out but not writing off my upcoming meet just yet. We shall see.
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Never think an injury has to completely sideline you, or assume training is going to go badly and bail.⁣
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Go. ⁣
Try. ⁣
Modify. ⁣
Adapt. ⁣
Overcome. ⁣
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Keep moving forward.⁣
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#masterspowerlifting #squats #TeamHotFlash #adaptordie by @mirslam

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12 days ago

Sandra Calvillo’s grandson saw her do pullups at the playground and thought it was the coolest thing he’d ever seen. Now HE’S trying to get his first pullup.⁣
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Sandra looks at strong women a decade older than her and thinks, If they can age like that, that means *I* can age like that. ⁣
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Seeing what other people are capable of helps us reimagine our future selves, stop accepting what society tells us is *supposed* to happen when we age, and understand that we can get BETTER as we get older.⁣
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This is why representation matters. This is the impact Masters lifters have on the people around them, at every age. ⁣
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🎙️ Listen to my full conversation with Sandra. Link in bio.⁣

#ThatBadassBroadcast #WomenWhoLift #WomenOver50 #MastersPowerlifting #StrengthTraining by @mirslam

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So happy to be pulling again. I’m pleasantly surprised I was able to comfortably step in and pull over 200 after three months away. These could have been snappier, but the point was to ease back into the movement.⁣
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My deadlift has changed so much since I last competed with a stiff bar—curious to see if it makes any difference at all, in either a positive or negative way. ⁣
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7 weeks out.⁣
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#Deadlifts #TeamHotFlash #MastersPowerlifter by @mirslam

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Sunday Squad! It’s almost time for our weekly happy hour 🥳 Sunday Funday Zumba at @spotlightvermont 🙌
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⏰ 10am EST | In person & online
🔗 Link in bio to register ✅
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#zumba❤️ #dancefitness #zincommunity #zumbachoreos #fypageジ @zincommunity @zumbanewengland taken in Spotlight Vermont by @mirslam

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Masters powerlifter Sandra Calvillo says it was almost a nonstarter when her coach told her she had to wear her new singlet to the gym to practice before her first competition.⁣
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I think most women reading this can relate. It’s distressing (but understandable) how many women hesitate to compete in powerlifting, or even refuse to compete at all, because of the singlet. ⁣
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In a culture where we’re taught to feel self-conscious about every little bulge and ripple, squeezing ourselves into a sausage casing and standing in front of a crowd (or even our own team) can feel mortifying. Lifting in front of everyone is one thing. Showing them our thighs is entirely another.⁣
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Sandra’s feelings about her body have shifted dramatically since that day. We talk about what changed, and much more, on the current episode of That Badass Broadcast.⁣
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🎙️ Watch or listen to the full episode. Link in bio.⁣
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#ThatBadassBroadcast #WomenWhoLift #StrengthTraining #MastersPowerlifting #WomenOver50⁣ by @mirslam

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Training dump from the past couple of weeks. Shoulder remains very pissy because I keep trying things I think will be ok because they don’t feel awful in the moment - and then find out a day later they were very definitely NOT ok.⁣
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So, we continue working around it and hope for the best for my next comp at the end of October. This is not where I wanted to be to start meet prep, but I couldn’t ask for a better coach than Mr. Adapt or Die himself @joesullivan_aod to figure out ingenious ways to work around something like this. ⁣
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Can’t do any pressing, but pulling seems fine so far, and luckily there are plenty of ways to squat that don’t require external rotation of the shoulder. 🤷🏻‍♀️⁣
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#TeamHotFlash #trainingdump #MastersPowerlifting #AdaptOrDie ⁣ by @mirslam

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