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Powerlifter | Phoenix📍| 🇲🇽🇵🇷
🧠 B.S. Sports Nutrition & CPT
📈 532 Dots | 2x All-American
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Holy the weight flew🙏
#powerlifting #deadlift #collegeathlete #gymmotivation #usapl

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A successful triples block all the way around!!!! ATS in November lookin pretty good 👀
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Thanks @sbd_derek , Programming going CRAZY
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So grateful for my awesome teammates here at @usupowerlifting

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First time repping 500s, how’d I do?
#powerlifting #deadlift #deadliftpr #sumodeadlift #usapl

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STATE RECORD INCOMING, repping my opener from last year and we’re still 5 weeks out.
#powerlifting #squat #pr #usapl #gymmotivation

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Bench is feeling so light💪
We got a new pr on meet day fs
#bench #powerlifting #gymmotivation #benchpr #usapl

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And it was flying too🙏

#powerlifting #deadlift #deadliftpr #sumodeadlift #usapl

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Regionals Round II
90kg Open 🏆

467.5kg | 1030.7lbs

This was a comp of firsts! My first time competing solely in open (I didn’t want to pay the fees for junior lol), first time handling several athletes while also competing myself in the same comp, first time competing with @arcpowerlifting, first time having to gut cut, and first time getting to pull for a win. I’ve never had such a close competition like this day and it was so fun to have such high stakes throughout the meet. I learned so much this go around; about myself and about powerlifting. Every competition I feel myself getting better, not even necessarily just how much I can lift—though that is always fun to watch progress too—but I become smarter, more mature, and mentally stronger.

📸: @visualsbyjado (The GOAT of meet pictures), he always does such an amazing job capturing my meet

Squat:
160 | 352 ⚪️⚪️⚪️
165 | 363 ⚪️⚪️⚪️
170 | 375 ⚪️⚪️⚪️

We played it a little safe with squat, my squat confidence hasn’t been great recently so being able to secure a meet PR was a perfect result for me! I was also hitting so much depth this day and that was not helping how much I could lift lol, I definitely overcompensated because I got called on depth at CNats.

Bench:
92.5 | 203 ⚪️⚪️⚪️
97.5 | 215 ⚪️⚪️⚪️
100 | 220.5 🔴🔴🔴

How fun it is to open with 200+ pounds! 97.5 is a comp PR match from last year at regionals, so I think it’s safe to say that a long awaited comp bench PR is coming soon. I did fail 97.5 at Nationals though, so I was still happy to get it back at this meet. 100 wasn’t quite there this day, but I will get it in comp soon enough.

@s0fialifts THE QUEEN

Deadlift:
175 | 385 ⚪️⚪️⚪️
187.5 | 413 ⚪️⚪️⚪️
200 | 440 🔴⚪️⚪️

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I have so much I could say about deadlift but will keep this short (ish). Normally I expend a lot of energy and hype on squat/bench but this time I saved energy and I had so much anticipation for deadlift/was ready to give it everything I had. Thank goodness I did! 200 has been a distant goal ever since I started powerlifting, so to hit it for the first time in a comp WHILE pulling for gold was an unreal experience. I have never felt adrenaline like I did before and after thi

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Congratulations to our ARC Powerlifting Women who snagged the Best Female Team at USAPL West Regionals this weekend. We are so proud of the performance they put on and the resilience that they showed!

Sofia Hammana- 60KG Junior 1st place, 60KG Open 3rd place

Carlee Cannella- 60KG Open 2nd place

Daviane Carlos- 60KG Open 4th place

Nadia Ramos- 70KG Open 6th place

Kate Bushnell- 90KG Open 1st place

Chanelle Perry- 100KG Open 1st place

Rochelle Cariaga- 100+KG Open 1st place

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USAPL West Regionals!

Squat: 190kg (418.87lbs)
Bench: 145kg (319.67lbs) UT State Record
Deadlift: 215kg (474lbs)

Total: 550kg (1212.54lbs)
Body weight: 67.15kg
Dots: 425.51

I can't lie I'm a little sad with how this meet ended. Missing out on Raw Nationals by 10kgs total is disappointing. Especially since it came down to my deadlift which was way below my usual best.

All things considered though this prep was crazy and I have a lot to be so happy and grateful for.

I broke my own state record, got over some injuries, I got married, I've been on a ton of amazing trips and I got to compete with the best people cheering me on in my corner.

I'm so grateful for my wife @chelsea.petersen who motivated me and supported me through the entire prep when I felt like maybe everything I had going on was just a bit too much to prep well enough.

I'm also so grateful for my coach and cousin @sbd_derek
Who helped me get through some injuries, weird scheduling and got me through meet day. Hit him up of you want to level up your powerlifting

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Best in the west, first place 100kg Junior. Shoutout to my beautiful girlfriend for coming to Vegas with me just to watch me lift some weights. And shoutout Derek for being a goated coach and handling me. Had lots of fun and PR'd my total by 55 kilos.

Squat: 255 KG/ 562 LBS

Bench: 162.5 KG/ 358 LBS

Deadlift: 285 KG/ 628 LBS

Total: 702.5 KG/ 1548 LBS

@usupowerlifting @sbd_derek @brookie_robinson14

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I honestly have no words, I couldn’t be happier!!!!! My goals going into this meet were to win open in my weight class and to hit a crazy deadlift, and I accomplished both!!!!!

Thank you to all my supporters @carter__south @ryan.ski8 @ryansnurse22 @usupowerlifting (and more), handlers @s0fialifts @arc.powerlifting and coach @sbd_derek , I love you all soooo so much!!! Full meet recap coming soon :)

And I’ve officially passed @sbd_derek ‘s bench 🤪 (comp PR’s, not quite gym) which has been a goal since I started powerlifting BAHAHA

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Genuinely all the love to my parents and friends who came to support me, to @sbd_derek for being a goated coach, as well as all the USU powerlifters who crushed it this meet!!

I couldn’t have asked for a better meet. I hit some massive comp pr’s and killed all my 3rd attempts. I placed 5th in my weight class which ain’t too bad for my first regionals😮‍💨

S: 212.5kg (468lb) 12.5kg comp PR
B: 117.5kg (259lb) 2.5kg comp PR
D: 245kg (540lb) 17.5kg comp PR
T: 575kg (1,267lb) 32.5kg comp PR
Dots: 391

Squat and Deadlift have blown up in the past while, and although bench hasn’t increased much, I’m very happy with the progress I’ve made considering the injury rehab process I’ve had to go through. Until next year Vegas🙂‍↕️

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