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by Becca@fromstrengthtostrength
Posted on January 8, 2017

December catch up

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[HOW TO MAKE THINGS HARDER THAN THEY NEED TO BE] By Becca Jones, age 45 and nearly a half 1. Arrange Good Friday drinks with a friend 2. Have a lovely afternoon catching up drinking one of your favourite beers in a pretty beer garden 3. Get a bit carried away, forget that you are a lightweight these days and that a couple of pints is your limit 4. Also forget that your favourite beer is almost 6% and you really shouldn't have more than a pint of it. 5. Have more than a couple of pints of your favourite beer 6. Eventually make your way home grabbing a sandwich to eat on the tube for dinner 7. Get home and very sensibly pour yourself a large glass of water 8. Fall asleep on the sofa before drinking said water 9. Wake up and put yourself to bed, have a couple of sips of water 10. Wake up at 5am wondering why you're not feeling too great 11. Snooze until 7am, feel a bit better. Have breakfast, feel a bit better 12. Go to Strongman training. It's events day. It's the warmest training day of the year so far. Hope you're not dehydrated....🙄 13. Wonder why your technique is off on yoke press and you keep failing reps 14. Wonder why the frame feels really heavy, then realise that you've got your plate maths wrong 15. Wonder why 160kg on the yoke feels like 200kg. 16. Wonder if you will ever learn..... All that said, if I can manage comp weight on 3 events while hungover and certainly not at my best then it should be far easier on the day itself!!! Also managed a cheeky rep PB on stones 😊 #bnsw2019 #esw2019 #BNSF #strongwoman #strongman #strength #strong

[WELL DONE LEGS] Went into tonight's squat session feeling tired and frankly scared of the numbers written in the programme. Came away from the session having sqatted my previous back squat 1RM for 2 and my previous front squat 1RM for 4. Followed up with my heaviest yet prowler pushes and arm over arm. 30kg over comp weight on the latter and feeling good. Sooo glad to have a lie in tomorrow 😊 #bnsw #esw2019 #strongwoman #strongman #strong #masters #strength

[CAUGHT ON CAMERA] My second deadlift training PB in less than a week and this time I caught it on camera. This was supposed to be a double according to my programme from @strengthcoach_london but it felt a bit grindy and I wasn't sure about my form so I didn't even go in for the second rep. Having watched back the video it looks a far better rep than it felt and I think I might have talked myself out of the double too soon. Building my deadlift back up has been as much mental as physical. Working with Dan is starting to build my confidence in my form and I'm feeling quite excited about the progress I'm seeing here in just 9 weeks. Maybe, just maybe me and deadlifts can be friends again. #deadlift #strongwoman #strongman #strength #bnsf #esw2019

[WEEK 8] 8 weeks of working with @strengthcoach_london and it's been a pretty epic week. A rep PB on squats, a training PB on deadlift and I finished the week with comp weight on yoke press, yoke and frame carry. Everything coming together pretty nicely and feeling good with 3 weeks to go. In my new @grrrl_clothing dragon skin leggings. #BNSF #esw2019 #strength #strongwoman #strongman #strong #masters #nattyoldwoman

[HAPPY] I haven't deadlifted anything over 100kg off the floor in a very long time. Deadlifts were the very last thing that @sonia.p10.fitness brought back into my training post rehab and since then I've been working at 18" for silver dollar and most recently from 3" blocks with @strengthcoach_london. Today we went back to the floor and I was delighted to pull 110kg for 4 without feeling anything off in my back. Yes my back positioning could be straighter, my bum could be lower, but they all came up fine and without a fight. Very happy indeed. Also shown are RDLs, push press and log press which went better than last week. 4 weeks to go and I'm feeling good 😊 #strongwoman #strongman #strength #strong

[4 WEEKS OUT] This time in 4 weeks I'll be competing at England's Strongest Woman (Naturals) in the Masters category. Or as it got named yesterday Natty Old Women 😂 Today's events session consisted of me making heavy weather of the yoke press (see my Insta stories) and getting to grips with the frame carry. Yoke was feeling good and I finished off with some stones (not filmed, so did they even happen? @skorpion_fitness was a witness so they definitely did) #strongwoman #strongman #bnsw #esw #yoke #frame #strong

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