STARTING WEIGHTLIFTING

Great news!!!

I finally found a weightlifting gym with a weightlifting trainer!!! :-)

It really sucks, but in my country weightlifting is kind of dead. I thought there would be no way for me to find a weightlifting gym. But, I finally found my place. It's looks more like an old small car-repair garage than like a gym but it has everything we need. It's actually a big room in the basement of a public gym. The room is owned by the regional weightlifting federation. It has no windows and no mirrors. And, the bars are a little bit rusty. But I just love it.

So I paid the federation fees and started training on Wednesday. There is only one teacher and a single schedule: Mo, We, Fr at 16:30h. We are only three persons training with him. I'm the only one who is just starting to learn proper technique. I had been doing the power version of the lifts (specially the power clean). But doing the lifts with proper technique is a whole new thing.

So far, it feels great. The feeling at the end of a weight-training session is completely different. You feel less winded. I actually feel tired and energized at the same time, and cannot help smiling all the time.

Besides, a turned callous and some teared off skin in my hands, it's great mentally to leave all the planning to the trainer and concentrate only into doing whatever he says. Besides the weightlifting sessions I plan to keep going on Saturdays and Sundays to do my usual weight-training sessions. I didn't do it this weekend because I had a cold with sore throat.

This is gonna be a very big change in my training. So I expect that it will be mentally refreshing and physically shocking. And that, my friend, should create some big strength gains!

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