Pain. An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage.
Ten weeks of work lead to a quite a bit of pain.
But. Didn't let that get in the way of lifting (but I complained about it along the way).
Competed in the 120kg open class. Against a group of seven younger lifters, most of whom have been alive for less time than I have been lifting. (35 years...old).
I was never going to fair well in this group. Last year the winning total was 755 to 715 for third. And healthy, I think I could have been in the fight for the podium with those sort of numbers. But this year was a massive step up with the top four nominations over 800.
Then there is the pain. Likely felt too good and pushed too hard, and the body didn't appretiate it, so it handed in its notice. One lower back/SI issue that started on week 7 of training, and then the right shoulder joining the left shoulder in pain on my last heavy day - leaving not a lot of time to pivot. The shoulder had me more concerned as it also impacted my ability to retract my shoulder in deadlift.
My pre-injury ranges were looking extremely good... my post injury total ending up less than 1% under my best shows it would have achieved close to my expected numbers. Will get healthier and see if I can do something silly at Masters nationals 2025.
Squat I opened light, 215, which was easy, even with a red light on the right hand side (the injury side). Likely I was nervious of pain. Jumped to 232.5, and then 245, both deep and three white lights. A small increase over last year, and a new WCPA M2 Record.
I was most nervous for bench. I did some warmup band exercises and heat rub/massage gun, failed a couple of pushups which gave a lot of pain. I warmed up on bench, and if I did a fast eccentric and accepted it would hurt, the concentric wasnt bad. But significant pain affterwards. Opening at 160 still gave me a bit of nerviousness. Wasn't warrented. I was going to do the fast eccentric on the platform but my brain didn't let me. I just focussed that it was going to hurt - like Lightning McQueen, but instead of "speed" it was "pain". The new Hansu rack felt great, absolutely flawness, the bench height and pin height was indistinquisible from home. Weight was super easy. Jumped 10kg. Easy. So jumped another 10kg. Moved like an opener. So 180 was the same as last year. But faster. Even while in pain. The live stream commentators were highlighting it - made me laugh.
Deadlifts warmup went well. My entire right shoulder was pretty angry, so I was trying to ensure I got into the best position to allow the least loading on it. 250 opener moved ok, not as fast as it should have. Jumped big to 275. Only the second time I have lifted 5 reds in competition. Moved well. I was concerned about the right lockout, as I could feel the shoulder being pulled forward with the weight, still got a white light - the commentators thought I was losing grip but no, it was the shoulder. I took 285 for a small step up on both my National M2 deadlift and total record, which was a little too ambitious. As soon as it got off the ground I could feel the shoulder being pulled out of position so stopped it early.
Thats another 8/9 day. 700 total. Pleased. Since my second return to lifting I have made 90.7% of lifts I attempted. Pleased with that.
Things do not go to plan. Especially when older. Pivot, adapt, move. There will be a bit of pivoting for the next few months. Trying to get the body back to "healthy", to gain a bit more muscle, and get stronger.
Being able to compete in the open class while being a M2 is pretty cool.
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