recently i had the privelage to lift with coach sadiv at parisi's speed school in new jersey. for those who dont know who coach sadiv is, please youtube him right now, he is also known as the human crane. the order of the day was deadlifts and boy did we ever pull some weight! with an achy lower back from sitting at the desk too long and not warming up and stretching for about a month i pulled an easy 525 and attempted a personal best of 575 which i failed but the motivation and fire was there! from there we moved on to reverse band deadlifts to help with the lockout. with this set up I pulled a devilish 300kg (get it!!! 300kg's 666 pounds)! for those that never reverse band pulled, at the lockout its pretty much all you!
ok, thats enough reporting heres the moral of the story, you are as successful as the average of the five people closest to you or something like that. success is contagious! thats why its so hard for kids to get out of the projects. and why deuchebag fratboys will always bench no more 225 and quarter smith machine squat 135 but will try to rack out the leg extension machine. luckily i had the human crane who is probablythe best deadlifter in the 82 kilogram weight class in this country and shintaro higashi who is a top 50 in the world judo player as my lifting partners, those studs will show me how to be on their level of success!
Dn't be a big fish in a small pond! if you're too big for that by not moving forward you will stop growing. Just being in that atmosphere encourages growth! Get right or you'll get left. Move to that bigger stage if you have outgrown the one you are in now. I had just one workout, one conversation, one meeting with coach Sadiv and I already know I am improved as a lifter! My mind set got right now i know what awesomeness is.
My new goals are 1400+ pound total in a powerlifting meet. Although this goal has always been there for me, it now seems more real having lifted with people in my weight class doing the numbers i wish to do. Surround yourself and you'll soon learn to do what they do, their successful habits will become yours, you'll learn whatever "secrets" they have and you'll be one of them provided you do what they did to get to where they are and you want to be.
My new goals are 1400+ pound total in a powerlifting meet. Although this goal has always been there for me, it now seems more real having lifted with people in my weight class doing the numbers i wish to do. Surround yourself and you'll soon learn to do what they do, their successful habits will become yours, you'll learn whatever "secrets" they have and you'll be one of them provided you do what they did to get to where they are and you want to be.
Excellent post, Jorge. Just the advice I recently gave myself. :)
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