Test day II

Perform, perform, perform!  Is there more and more to add into your training? Does the idea of performing, doing more make you tired, drain your energy? Or excite you, raise the level of your drive to be GREAT?

The amazing thing about this is, we all have the choice to decide how we react. Be excited or be turned off.  It's right because you make it so.

My very good friend and mentor suggested I read "The Prayer of Jabez" and "The Secret of the Vine" by Bruce Wilkinson.  It's fascinating, exhilarating and scary all at once.  This is the Prayer of Jabez:

"Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain." And God granted his request.
- 1 Chronicles 4:10

What's this got to to with Test Day? Well the answer to that is another quote from the greatest book every written:

He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

- Matthew 17:20

First, we must ask for MORE to be given to us. Second, we must have faith it is already done. Yes, I'm talking about TEST days.  AND guess what?  EVERY DAY is a test day for EVERYTHING we do. Be bold. Ask, have faith and it will be done. 

So did I PR on this Test Day? Nope :)  Did I learn something? OH yes.  Thanks to another outstanding coach,  Jason Trihn.   

On this test day, I caught a 2kg PR snatch but couldn't stand up with it. Butt down, chest up! And I did exactly the opposite. 

But I went back the next day and Jason talked me through each position of the snatch coming up with cues that worked for me.  Here's the results.  Feels so good when that bar seems to float to that overhead position.  

What gives you purpose to be your best?  AT MINIMUM... BELIEVE in yourself and talk only positive self talk. What we think and feel plays out on the screen of our life.  What do you want playing out on the screen of your life?

I want a 60kg snatch and a 85kg Clean & Jerk. To do this I have to go back to the beginning and get it right. Take weight off, repeat, repeat until every lift looks and feels the same.  And I'm excited to get to it.  Thanks to all my great coaches at Synergy Strength who will get me there.  Let's get into the arena!