Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic)

I went heavy on the accessories as they were not muscle groups I had fatigued over the last few oly sessions and light on the technique to drill patterns and due to fatigue.

The exception being overhead squats as I wanted to try for a PB..Nailed it!!!

Other than that omg I still have so far to go and so much to learn feeling it was a good session.

After a busy week today's focus was light technique work plus heavy accessory.

Thankfully I'm old enough to have been through this point in learning with many other things and know it will pass. But damn if it isn't a tough stage

I'm 80 sessions and 8 months into learning olympic lifting with a coach. Which means I now know enough to aware of all the flaws I have in technique and it feels like being back to day 1 some sessions.

Today's socks are pink socks. I love training at weekends. To have time without rushing onto the next thing is lush.

Personal best yesterday in overhead squats. I really actually like overhead squats, might do a couple today.

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Anyone here into:-
Olympic weightlifting?
Buying pointless but cute blind boxes?
Horror movies... especially spooky ones?
BMTH and want to give me new recommendations?
Being 40/50 something but with the mind of a badly behaved teenage boy?

Wanna be friends?

Today's training socks and top coordinate. Bloooooooo. No hospital appointments today thank f**K. No helping my son clear out the hoarding issue. Just olympic weightlifting and 1 client. Then getting polynucleotides under my eyes. Might ow

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Today's training socks. Super tired. But there's no sign of blood or lymphatic cancer. The CT showed a breast lump we didn't know about. Biopsy results from the breast lumps she had tested last week this morning.

Time to beat the brain demons back with a barbell

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Today's socks and workout outfit Won't be going for any PBs today, today's Olympic lifting is purely to quieten brain demons.

We get the results from my daughters CT and other tests today and honestly I'm beside myself with worry

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Personal bests this morning in both Snatch and Clean and Jerk.

Still have a huge amount to learn and work on technique wise. But yey me

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Today's olympic weightlifting sock and t coordination

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Matching my socks to my vest or t shirt gives me a weird little dopamine hit 🤣

Today's knee high sock and top colour coordination. Cream socks and brown top. Yes I have a home gym, yes I still coordinate my outfit 🤣

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Well that's the brain demons quietened for a little while.

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It's just mind fucking blowing at times isn't it! I'm waiting for her to pull the victim card after this reply. Because of course I'm a meanie and she's just trying to help. Not that her reply on a post about my kid on rare disease day was pure wool audacity

If they had an emotional intelligence higher than a washing up sponge they would realise that their comments offering woo treatments on a very open post about someone's child on rare disease day are the problem.

Sadly none seem ever to be aware of their actual audacity

I'm waiting to be told I'm a meanie, in my experience the people who share their "expertise" very quickly pull the victim card when called out.

Absolutely hilarious. Not at all weird or undermining. I don't think there is ever an occasion I see that man where I don't come away feeling like shit.

When you try and take your mum out for a lovely meal and your dad starts joking to your husband about how he can "meet pretty Italian girls" on his ultra in Italy. More than once. My dad thinking it's funny to suggest that my husband can meet "pretty girls".

At the moment just focusing on one day at a time and training a lot! Movement kinda keeps me sane (ISH) thank you for asking ❤️

If you come at me with this shit on a post I made about my daughter's genetic disorder for rare f**king disease day. You get blocked no questions. Don't care who you are.

#yogateachers you are NOT doctors or genetisists. STAY IN YOUR LANE.

My god !!!!!

It's a literal fucking nightmare sometimes

She needs at some point to have a preventative double mastectomy and a hysterectomy and faces a life time of checks for cancer.

In the middle of all this we try to just enjoy life, but it's a huge unfair shitty burden for her to have to spend a life carrying.

As she just had a pre op appointment arrive for the end of March we think that means they are planning to remove the lipoma in April.

Next week we get the results on the breast lumps and head CT.

This will never end for her.

She has a huge lump on her head which appears to be a bone growth not soft tissue. Again we don't know what or why. She has a lipoma that covers the entirety of her left armpit and is strangling nerves in that arm.

There are good periods and bad periods. Currently this one is a very bad one. She has been unwell since November. No one knows why. She has multiple breast lumps and on Tuesday had 6 biopsies taken. It was not a good procedure and she had a really distressing autism meltdown in the middle of it.

I don't normally talk about this stuff on here but it's #rarediseaseday

My daughter has PTEN harmatoma tumour syndrome. She had cancer aged 10. She's never really been well since.

She's had more biopsies and lumpectomies than I can remember.

I'm starting the level 1 coaching cert today just for fun

Yo bluesky, after 7 million days of grey skies in the north of England show me your blue skies from wherever you are.

I think I've forgotten what the sky looks like without clouds

After which the next five minutes spent with them moves slower than time spent holding a plank. In fact holding a plank would be preferable because mild discomfort would be more entertaining than the sheer bland greyness of their entire personality.