So as the title says this is my first post on this thing. I've tried blogging before but I am not very dilligent about it but this time I am absolutely going to do my best to post to this at least once a day if not more.
Some things about me:
I am 25 years old and currently in grad school working on a Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering.
About a year ago I started doing crossfit . I lost a ton of weight and got kinda strong.
With crossfit I was introduced to the Olympic lifts. I was instantly hooked. There is something about lifting a weight-loaded barbell from the ground to overhead that is just so cool and powerful feeling.
Anyways, to weightlift I had to get a whole lot stronger because I was quite weaksauce.
So with weightlfiting training and coaching at Faction Strength and Conditioning, in a mere 6 months I managed to take my snatch from 105# to 190# and my clean and jerk from 135# to 235# before injuring my L5-S1 disc in June 2011 :(
I spent about 10 weeks doing absolutely nothing. But slowly and surely I managed to build my strength back up and now I am about to begin training in order to compete in my FIRST EVER set of weightlifting meets so I can qualify for the National University Championships in April 2012 (That's right I've never competed before...ever).
It will be an interesting journey as I also have to start finishing up my research for my degree. And that is taking ALOT of my time. But I'm confident I can do it.
I wanted to make this blog to serve as a record of my training and to help keep me focused on my goals. This blog will probably be mostly workout logs but I will likely have a few posts on some of my nutrtion, progress and life in general.
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