Uncensored Humanity

On today's episode my Weightlifting coach Dan Bell and I sat down to do a 2019 Arnold Sports Classic recap. We've been trying to find a date that works for both of us; but it took us a few weeks to actually be able to recap how the 2019 Arnold went. My team, Rubber City Weightlifting, did okay as a whole. We had eight lifters compete over the course of the weekend. Unfortunately only four of them posted a total. Two had to withdraw because of injury and the other two were unable to hit the lifts that they needed on that day. For me personally this was the biggest meet of my life. I needed to post a total of 250kg to qualify for the 2019 Master's World Weightlifting Championships. I've been struggling with a hip injury for the past year that the doctor's can't seem to figure out what's exactly wrong. This has left me mostly unable to squat for the past year. I came into the meet with a squat that was approximately 20kg less than what I needed to have the strength necessary to successfully lift the qualifying t