28/06/2022
I was having a conversation with a client who's recently suffered a pretty significant knee injury, and it got me thinking about how we deal with injuries mentally while trying to continue to lift and rehab the injury.
What we need to do is think about what can be done, and not about what we've lost/can't do right now. This will place us in a position where we can fixate on the positives and continue to tackle what we need to in order to maintain our habits.
We also need to be forgiving of ourselves when we have bad days and feel like the injury has gotten the best of us, but don't allow that to derail everything.
You're still just as in control as you were before you got injured, you just need to be more creative about how you can do things now.
22/06/2022
Variation lifts are used for a number of reasons, from being used as a load limiter before your primary days, to even addressing a weak point in your competition lift.
Your coach should be explaining why you're doing a variation, and what the desired outcome is by doing it. With that in mind, be deliberate with what you're trying to achieve by implementing that variation lift into your weekly training schedule.
If you have pause or tempo work before your primary days to drill positioning and/or power out of the hole, drill that during your variation sets and be mindful of what you did during your comp lift sets.
To have any kind of carry over you have to be mindful of what you're doing and why you're doing it, be deliberate.
17/06/2022
U67.5kg raw National Champion!
did a beautiful job executing the game plan we created today, hitting some really nice PR's on all three lifts.
Squat - 140kg (20kg PR)
Bench - 82.5kg (7.5kg PR)
Deadlift - 165kg (5kg PR)
Total - 387.5kg (32.5kg PR)
Crazy part is, we're literally only getting started. Excited for Quinnies future!
