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squat & deadlift openers done ✔️

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can’t thank the girls enough for coming to support & cheer me on today. love yall 🖤

coach - @brittany_shack
nutrition - @bowles_body_performance
gym - @thelifeofstrengthllc

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Meet Recap: Halloween Havoc 2026

Fourth USPA Meet, a year after my last Full Power Meet, and now, my first Push/Pull meet!

Bench:
⚪️⚪️⚪️ 187.39#/85 KG
⚪️⚪️⚪️ 198.42#/90 KG +16.52# Platform PR, State Record
🔴🔴🔴 210.54#/95.5 KG
Deadlift:
⚪️⚪️⚪️ 402.34#/182.5 KG
⚪️⚪️⚪️ 435.4#/197.5 KG
⚪️⚪️⚪️ 451.9#/205 KG +5.5# All time PR, State Record

First meet with a belt was an adventure. Thank you @brewed.strength for your encouraging mid-meet words and thank you, @steenary , for helping right the ship after squats did not go as planned. Huge props to Steen, @gainondorf , and @_primalpl_ for helping me and over half the lady’s field in the back - yall were the backbone to flight A. Thank you to all the spotters and refs, and especially @valerie_smith_powerlifter – this was a long meet and things kept rolling.

Thank you to my forever cheerleader, @mf1zzle , for capturing photos and videos and holding down the fort with the kids and my parents.

Shout out to my home gyms:
@i3sp
@unrivaledfitnessaiken
@workoutanytimeaiken
And to my @sundayservice_strength ladies for all the encouragement!

Pro photos by @aandjcreativephoto .

Now to build confidence and come back stronger.
#OldLadyLifter
#TrustTheProcess
#TheHellIWont

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Have you hugged your dog today? 🤍

📸: @courtneynoele

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@steenary
2026 USAPL Southeast Regionals

9/9, 1st Place, Women’s Open 52kg

S: 72.5kg // 159lb (+2.5kg Meet PR, matched ATPR)
B: 45kg // 99lb (+2.5kg Meet PR, matched ATPR)
D: 110kg // 242lb (+2.5kg Meet PR, ATPR)

Total: 227.5kg // 501lb (+12.5kg Meet PR)
DOTS: 284.49 (+13.93)

Leave it to the Big Bratwurst ™️ to surprise everyone on the day once again!! After last regionals, we elected to take the year to cure what ails us (which is really hard to do if you live a life that doesn’t allow you to lol). With squat, our biggest task was finding a bar position that allowed for efficient movement without affecting neck/shoulder health. Low-bar topsets with high-bar backoffs really allowed us to hone that in without any limiting factors playing a part. Now we squat 2 reds!

Across training, Steen’s bench has been the most consistent aside from just crossing over that 95lb barrier (which clearly was not an issue on the day). Grateful that @thelifeofstrengthllc has chips that we can add to work within those standard 2.5kg jumps. Luckily the head and neck haven’t affected bench all that much, so we’ve been full steam ahead!!

With Steen’s semi-recent switch to sumo, our main goals going into Regionals were to hone the movement, allowing the weight to follow solid technique as is of utmost importance with sumo compared to conventional. Still plenty of things to iron out but for her meet debut, I’d say an ATPR shows signs of pretty solid progress! I could not be more proud of Steen’s resilience and ability to put her head down and get shit done. I’m lucky to work with her!

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🥩 RECAP: 2026 USAPL Southeast Regionals

5/9, 5th Place Men’s Open 110kg

S: 2/3, 260kg // 573lb
B: 1/3, 147.5kg // 325lb
D: 2/3, 280kg // 617lb

Total: 687.5kg // 1515lb
DOTS: 411.3

• Squats didn’t actually feel that bad, all things considered. Just shifted onto my toes with 272.5 // 600 and couldn’t recover.

• Second attempt bench my back locked up, felt a shooting nerve pain as I was pressing, elected to time out my last to be safe (thank you @lorenzojwright for working on me 🫱🏾‍🫲🏻)

• Decided to wake up for pulls and things were flying. 290 would’ve been a solid meet PR if I hadn’t gotten too excited. Emotions were getting high towards the end for everyone (if you were in a sauna for two days, you would be too). Ref calls being what they were, I should’ve known better!

It is what it is 🤷🏽‍♂️

All in all, I’m proud of and grateful for the ability to compete healthily again on the one stage that’s eluded me for so long. Sharing the platform with my best friends and feeling the support from my families made everything more than worth it.

Thank you to the crew for everything @strengthrob.phd @stocky.lifts @anugym_ @lee_d_wells @olympus365lkn @onlyachoom @strengthcoachsav @mama_stevens11024 @bignicksnr @the_spoonerman @steenary @meg_bolick03 @whasianbarbiee @ascensionrehab @thelifeofstrengthllc @jbcjacked @wholelottadeads @marley90kg @lorenzojwright @chaycebrall @imnotacountry @ladaradalin @lmplummer0 @noahmiller8513 @coffeeandmascara1 @barbelldream @howell333 @crazycemeterian2015

Summary: don’t handle for 14hr in no AC before attempting a PR total in a lighter weight class

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Couldn’t have asked for a better way to spend my birthday. Thank you all for making me feel so special 🫶🏼 Also so so proud of everyone that competed. I think we all took the cake that day 🍰

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Congratulations to @steenary and @ladaradalin for their outstanding performances yesterday @usapl_nc Regionals! Yall freaking crushed it! 💜💜

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Meet prep!

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Good luck to all our members competing this weekend!

Go show off all the hard work you've been putting in at the purple rhino gym 🫡

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When you asked your coach to send you instructions for a new movement and told him, “A voice note is prob fine if you don’t have time for a full video!”⁣
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Send help. Our learning styles ARE NOT the same 😅🫠 ⁣
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Anyone else need a visual AND to someone to verbally cue you through how and where to feel if in your own body before you understand what to do? I legitimately cannot visualize things with verbal or written information alone 🤔

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The crew is ready. 😎 We’ll see you in Raleigh.

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When you love your vet so much you take a field trip to say hi at the end of their work day. ✨ thanks for always taking such great care of us, @ballantynevet!

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