Picking Myself Up after a comp

[riverrock]

Hi All!

Went into a Mid Week competition at 82.5kg only and was disappointed with my scores. I left my best lifting in the gym and was tired even before I started. I now feel very deflated. How can I pick myself up quickly? Won't be competing now for ages and I had trained for 9 months for that competition. Feel awful and disappointed even though the other competitors were great as regards encouragement etc. What can I do?

 

[Chambewy20]

Think of what you might have done wrong... did you overtrain, did you de-load in time, were you in shape, did you get your GGP up or did that get overlooked, did you listen to your body and back off when you felt beat up or did you just keep on going.

You have to figure out what worked, what didn't, what will work in the future and what you can change so that it doesn't happen again.

Don't worry about it, did you bomb out completely or did you just not have the ass to hit the numbers you wanted.

Never let that discourage you, everybody bombs out once in a while, if you don't test and push yourself to the limit, you'll never know what your actually capable of.

 

[riverrock]

Think of what you might have done wrong... did you overtrain, did you de-load in time, were you in shape, did you get your GGP up or did that get overlooked, did you listen to your body and back off when you felt beat up or did you just keep on going.

You have to figure out what worked, what didn't, what will work in the future and what you can change so that it doesn't happen again.

Don't worry about it, did you bomb out completely or did you just not have the ass to hit the numbers you wanted.

Never let that discourage you, everybody bombs out once in a while, if you don't test and push yourself to the limit, you'll never know what your actually capable of.

Thanks for the reply.

Well, I think it was a calories problem. I think that I lost strength because I'm a borderline 82.5kg (have no idea what that is in pounds) and didn't eat enough the weeks leading up to the comp. I was in good shape. I missed a lift that I was confident of and this hit my confidence. I played it a little safer to aviod looking stupid and put in a "respectable" performance. However, the plan was to throw caution to the wind after the first heavy lift and go for it. I enjoyed the day and congratulated the winner, but to see the guy who won it lifting a weight that I had actually beaten in the gym was a soul destroyer.

 

[donsj]

Hi All!

Went into a Mid Week competition at 82.5kg only and was disappointed with my scores. I left my best lifting in the gym and was tired even before I started. I now feel very deflated. How can I pick myself up quickly? Won't be competing now for ages and I had trained for 9 months for that competition. Feel awful and disappointed even though the other competitors were great as regards encouragement etc. What can I do?

Just happens sometimes man. My squat suit was to tight, couldn't warm up properly, then I split my bench shirt on my opener and had to change to unfamilial shirt--bombed in bench after good squat. Oh well, learned some good lessons, like have good backup shirt. Then pick yourself up and keep a stiff upper lip and lift them sombitches.

 

[pwrlftrscott]

Think of what you might have done wrong... did you overtrain, did you de-load in time, were you in shape, did you get your GGP up or did that get overlooked, did you listen to your body and back off when you felt beat up or did you just keep on going.

You have to figure out what worked, what didn't, what will work in the future and what you can change so that it doesn't happen again.

Don't worry about it, did you bomb out completely or did you just not have the ass to hit the numbers you wanted.

Never let that discourage you, everybody bombs out once in a while, if you don't test and push yourself to the limit, you'll never know what your actually capable of.

i agree with cham, learn from each meet, remember what you did prior to the good ones and bad ones, you have to learn your body, i have never had a good meet when losing weight fot a meet. and now i never lose for a meet. i try to gain and go in as heavy as possibe. the only reason to lose weight would be if your going for a wr in a class. pr's mean more to me than state records. take a look at your log and determine if you overtrained, but also look at the 2 weeks before the meet, did you eat enough, were you hydrated enough, there a 100's of things, just try to find out why it went bad and fix it next time, and if i were you i find another meet soon, and put the bad one behind me.

 

[donsj]

pwrlftrscott got it nailed again. I used to try to make 220 lb class all the time. One time I had to sweat off 7 lbs in a meet where I could weigh in the night before. And even though I did ok I felt sick from it and wasn't quite rehydrated enough. Now I go in 242 lb class all the time and I never have to sweat the weigh in. Just a wild guess but maybe moving up a weight class can be of benefit. I prefer a meet pr or something similar to coming in as low weight class as I can thinking that will give me an advantage against the field. Other thing is that sometimes you just have a bad day and you will never figure it out.