The Story of a Struggling Powerlifter

This is the story of a struggling powerlifter named Liz.

Liz started her physical fitness journey later in the life choosing to dedicate her life to raising her son until he graduated from high school.  She has dabbled in race walking and bodybuilding style strength training until she found Crossfit.  After doing Crossfit for almost 4 years, the opportunity to try something new arose - powerlifting.

Several other women in the gym signed up for a powerlifting meeting in the Spring and Liz was motivated to join them.  Stepping outside her comfort zone, she began powerlifting training.  It hasn't been easy because the Crossfit Open fell in the middle of the powerlifting prep.

Liz had taken some time off work for appointments as well as the Open so the first couple weeks of training didn't seem too bad.  However, returning to a normal hybrid work schedule with 3 days of powerlifting and 2 days of Crossfit has proven to be exhausting for Liz.  By the time her Sunday rest day rolls around, she is so tired it is hard to get out of bed.  She's canceled meeting with her friends outside the Crossfit and powerlifting space twice now.  She's been struggling and failing her bench press.  Something has to give.

After talking with her husband, Liz scheduled a session with a weightlifting coach for help with bench press.  She is hopeful that this will help her over this speed bump in her powerlifting training.

She is also scaling back to one Crossfit class a week.  Liz knows her Crossfit friends will understand the need to scale back as they regularly ask how her powerlifting training is going.  She is targeting two active recovery days with one being on Saturday.  The hope is that by having an active recovery day on Saturday, she will wake up refreshed on Sundays and able to meet up with the friends she's canceled on these past couple of weeks.

Folks, Liz is me.  I'm the struggling powerlifter.  After attending a recent writing group meeting, I was inspired write a story to share my struggles.  The name Liz is a shortened version of Elizabeth, a woman from the Bible. My husband & I also both had grandmothers named Elizabeth. 

While these past few weeks have been challenging, I am not going to give up. I am optimistic that working with a coach on my bench press and my schedule adjustments will be what I need to overcome the failures and fatigue that I have experienced.

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