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I like birthdays 🙂 by @stephaniesides

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3 months ago

“You must be able to keep your progress in perspective. You do not waste your time worrying about where your game is going, or when it’s going to fall into place, or why you are not better now given how hard you have been working.

Take pride in being tougher and more resilient than others. Disappointments are just part of your quest.“

-Bob Rotella by @stephaniesides

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a year ago

Tuscany, USA edition taken in Napa Valley California by @stephaniesides

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a year ago

Training has been going really well and I said to myself “I am about to do something at AO2 that I’ve never done before.”

So I bombed out. hahaha (I really have to be more clear with those wishes.)

I see my weightlifting mental resiliency tests continue.

Had a solid cry and a pep talk from @adam_white_76 after baby’s first snatch bomb out, got my back fixed up by the goat @elaine.tsay, then became one with my truest silly goose self and came back out to hit all 3 clean and jerks. I even got elite athlete treatment and got my last make reviewed and turned over by the remote jury! (If they wanted me to come back out and hit ‘em with the double bicep again they could’ve just said that.) But, let it be known, for at least like 5 min, I was a TX OK WSO record holder!

Bombing felt really big in the moment, but in the scheme of things it’s just one day and one bad meet doesn’t erase all the progress I’ve made over the past year. My main goals were to have fun and make memories with my friends and I couldn’t be happier with the way that turned out.

Thank you to the team for cheering me on! Had so much fun in the back room with all my pals this weekend. Thank you @prochtoyalater and @heyitsaimeew for loading and cheering, @monicaparucho for the support, and most of all to @nealc_atx who takes always care of me, looks out for me, and keeps me looking at the positive even though he ended up getting sick and unable to compete himself.

Big dogs keep grindin 🐶 taken in Fort Worth, Texas by @stephaniesides

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a year ago

🎂 by @stephaniesides

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a year ago

Dodging motorinos, eating truffles, and looking for Maiximus Decimus Meridius

1. View from Orvieto
2. Deli and butcher shop in Rome
3. The Colosseum
4. Sunset in Rome
5. Truffles!
6. The Pantheon
7. View from our Airbnb in Urbino
8. The best pizza place
9. Orvieto smelled like jasmine
10. Urbino at 11pm on a Thursday
11. The cathedral in Orvieto that took 300 years to finish
12. Picnic dinner
13. Scoping my future career as a street flute player in Urbino
14. Montepulciano views
15. Existential Italian pup
16. This hill was steeper than it looks
17. Boscarelli wine tasting
18. Petroio at sunset
19. Pastry breakfast
20. 500 year old place in Urbino that they just use as an Airbnb?? And my brother-in-law playing piano taken in Orvieto by @stephaniesides

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a year ago

“When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

Today, I woke up 49% recovered with only 6.5 hours of sleep. And after a pep talk from @nealc_atx I changed my mindset and said “let’s just see what I can do today. It’s just for fun. Every day is just another opportunity to practice.”

4kg/8lb PR, first time snatching the blues by @stephaniesides

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a year ago

110kg/242lb - 10kg PR

Shoulder is hurting so the legs are doing overtime.
115, your days are numbered pal.

Oh, also, Pacer by Doechii is guaranteed to add 10kg to all your lifts. 💅 by @stephaniesides

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2 years ago

I’ve missed 40kg about a million times this year trying to snatch “correctly.” But @stonehengeweightlifting reminded me at some point you have to stop rewatching and obsessing over your videos and stop acting like it’s heavy and just send it.

These aren’t the most perfect lifts but they’re makes. I did 3kg more than I’ve ever done from the floor today and did it as a pump snatch? And no misses?! Okkkk let that dog out! Haha by @stephaniesides

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2 years ago

100kg/220lb 2 rep PR

A few weeks ago @stonehengeweightlifting said “maybe you could squat 100 this year” and I was so offended (because I already did that) that I did it for two. I was ready to die for that 3rd rep, too. Nothing motivates me like spite. 🙂 by @stephaniesides

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2 years ago

2024. Many claps & skips.

(But don’t let this video fool you. I’m in an ongoing legal battle with weightlifting suing for emotional damage and will most likely have another mental breakdown in the next 3-5 business days.) by @stephaniesides

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2 years ago

Got passenger princess treatment from @nealc_atx as he toted me around College Station this weekend just to support me at my meet.

Had the best time getting to lift in the same session as my friends. Maybe the most fun I’ve ever had at a meet.

Changed my snatch technique about two weeks ago and missed my first snatch attempt resulting in a full mental breakdown. 🙃 @stonehengeweightlifting had to tell me to get tough and get my shit together before my next attempt. Didn’t bomb out! Yet questioned if I should be really be weightlifting if I’m this terrible (a personal favorite mental spiral). Drank 100mg of caffeine and decided life was worth living and hit a meet PR clean and jerk on my first attempt, matched my current clean and jerk PR for my second attempt, and hit a lifetime PR on my clean on the last attempt, and ended with a PR meet total. (Sadly, I will learn nothing from this.)

The best part was cheering on my friends, being over caffeinated as a team, the endless inside jokes with @elaine.tsay, loading for Father @stonehengeweightlifting and all of us cheering for him as he smoked his comeback meet with a 6 for 6 while yelling “that’s our dad!!” half out of pride and half to embarrass him. hahaha

10/10 meet day by @stephaniesides

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2 years ago