In the past couple of weeks when i have been unable to train properly and as a re
sult i have come to the realisation that i love weightlifting. I have been able to return to somehwat normal weightlifting training. So what seperates weightlifting training from the general rubbissh i have been doing for the past few weeks.
1. Using enough weight that you can hurt yourself with. Lets face it there aint much things more fun than moving heavy weight. As a weightlifter you are able to tioss around and overhead a lot more weight than you really shoukd. When you are like me and incredibly weak at all pressing movements or any general upper stuff you cant handle enough weight to hurt yourself.. You cant beat the bit of body english.
2. A good bit of brusing around your pelvis. Yes a very strange thing to miss but i miss this feeling. You cant beat the feeling of the hips hitting in and under the bar good times.
3. Simialr to the previous one nice red thighs from cleans or clean pulls. Pretty strange feeling put shiney raw thighs always make me feel like i have had agood days work in the clean.
4: muscle soreness in my lower body what a great feeling. The past few weeks have revolved around very boring upper body shite and very lil lower body work.
So basicallu i love weightlifting cause i can hurt myself but i have been unable to weightlift cause i am injured wow weightlifters are all fucking crazy
Undoubtedly your strangest blog post to date... Maybe the lack of proper training has meddled with your brain?
ReplyDeleteI don't understand point number one. How can being weak in the upper-body mean that you can't handle enough weight to hurt yourself? I would have thought that being weak in the upper body opens the lifter up to the possibility of more injuries?
A lot of weightlifters are crazy, yes. But usually it is the half-decent ones and the ones that strive to constantly progress that this applies to. There are not enough real weightlifters around these days in Ireland, too many cert-chasers and far too many 'lifters' that lift simply so that they can say that they are weightlifters to boost their CVs... Sad really.
And as for the pelvis bruising thing, you're weird man. There's nothing worse.
So do you love weightlifting more than BJK now?