Dealing with adversity

After having a terrible last two days, I stormed out of my training session yesterday feeling depressed, full of anxiety, and all kinds of bad juju.  I was dealing with personal issues that have just now surfaced in the last two days compile that with the overhanging notion that I will be getting married in less than sixty days and add in the fact that I am not hitting the numbers that I should be in training.  All those emotions in one head can cause a serious panic attack.  Luckily through the words of my fiancée (Dot McMillan) and my coach (Mike Bledsoe) I've put that entire bad juju behind me.

I wasn't going to lift today.  I was just going to go talk to my coach and figure out where we were going to go from here.  However, after talking to both of them I decided what do I have to lose.  I am not going to be able to go to the gym again until next Tuesday and I might as well just go in and try.  And try I did, I ended up snatching better than I had all cycle long.  My snatch pulls and descent looked amazing and felt amazing.  I ended up doing eleven handstand pushups on my first set of max out reps.  This is awesome compared to the story Mike and I recalled today when he first made me try them on the gymnastic rings and I almost snapped my neck.

So the moral of this story is?  The moral here is that in life you will face adversity, this is inevitable.  This adversity will infect your training, no doubt about it.  However, you have to deal with adversity and understand that things will get better; you won't always PR in life or in the gym.  Every day is not a PR day.  Some day’s life will kick you in the mouth and you'll get up the next day and get kicked in the mouth again.  This cycle might repeat for a few weeks, but somewhere down the road something is going to click whether that is: your boss says good morning to you, someone opens the door for you, someone tells you that they liked something of yours, things feel better today, you aren't as soar, or you got something with perfect form.  This small little snowflake whatever it is will start to roll down the hill and become a giant snowball that will lead you to better things or PR's.

Until next time, keep fighting the good fight.  Push yourself and try new things; do a heavy weight fail at it go back down and then hit it again.  If you miss say a few dirty words to the weight and tell it you'll be back next time.

P.S. You can hate me or love me but I am heading to Destin, FL for a much need vacation and wedding planning session.  Wish me luck!