Damn, March 6. That was my last blog post. Funny how time flies when life gets busy. Since the last time I’ve published on here, I’ve: -become the chief of a busy level 2 trauma center going back to my first great love of trauma surgery -competed as a twig 48kg lifter for the first […]
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Facebook is a giant melting pot for me. It’s a few friends from childhood, a lot of women who lift, a similar number of raver friends who love music and about 2,000 patients, nurses and other people I know from work. I think I’m currently at 2,986 “friends”. But Instagram is just for me. I […]
Jerk Assistance Exercises
My website is called “StrongSnatch” mainly because I have the sense of humor of a 15yo boy. But it’s apt because I have a relatively stronger snatch than clean & jerk. My max snatch is 83% of my max clean. But my max snatch is 91% of my max jerk. The snatch and clean ratio […]
Becoming a Team Doctor
There were so many great things about going to the weightlifting world championships. There was a great deal of hoisting of heavy weights and I got to sit behind Apti for thirty minutes while he watched the 94A group. There were spectacular graphics and they played Sandstorm between sessions. It sort of felt like a […]
Internal Rotation in the Lockout
As I start to teach classes to beginners in the olympic lifts, it is becoming very clear to me that different cues work differently for different people. I’m a surgeon. When I heard somebody explain the position of the arms when locked out overhead as, “internally rotating your humerus” that resonated with me. I understood […]
Masters at the American Open
Last week the senior American Open was held in Reno just one week after the World Championships in Houston. So much great weightlifting in America this year!! For once I was not glued to the live feed because I was worried that I had reached the limits of my family’s tolerance of my weightlifting obsession […]
Olympic Weightlifting with the PUSH Band
NOTE: I AM NOT AFFILIATED WITH PUSH STRENGTH NOR IS THE LINK IN THIS ARTICLE AN AFFILIATE LINK. THIS IS JUST MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND OPINION USING THE DEVICE. As you may know, I train largely by myself. Which means I video a lot of my lifts to dissect afterwards. But an even more useful […]
What To Do When You’re Sidelined
I think of myself as Superwoman. Or Wonder Woman. I actually have two pairs of WW underwear from Target so I must indeed be wonderful. Clearly if it’s on your underwear it must be true. What are not wonderful are my shoulders. I’m on shoulder “issue” number three in four years. The first was left […]
Fred Flintstone is the Only One Who Should Make the Bed Rock – The importance of sleep for recovery
I refuse to make you all jealous by posting pictures of my bed. But I really do have the greatest bed of all times. It’s huge, it’s got a big caved canopy and it sits in a very cold room. My bed is sleep heaven. Why is this important? Because the number one thing one […]
What’s The Most Important Job of a Masters Lifter?
I know all the reasons why old people lift. For the personal satisfaction of reaching goals. To keep aging at bay. To feel powerful. But you know what I think is one of the most important reasons you lift? To inspire the next generation. Let’s face it. Other than Melanie Roach, us oldies are unlikely […]