No more OL - Breaking the building!!!

[Gladiola]

Well, got a call from my teammate on Wed while in Chicago on a business trip. We have "BROKEN the warehouse" where we train.

My coach rents space in this warehouse & owns the platforms, barbells & Olympic Lifting equipment. The owner of the building had a buyer looking at it & stress fractures were discovered in the basement. Hmm, from repeatedly dropping heavy barbells, perhaps?! So no more dropping weight. You can't really train properly in OL WITHOUT sometimes dropping the weights.

Coach is currently looking into another space.

 

[SteelWeaver]

Awww.

That sucks. But now maybe you can bench for a little while

 

[b fold the truth]

Were you using bumper plates? I thought that they were pretty safe to drop...

B True

 

[Gladiola]

Oh very funny, SW! I didn't want to go back to my BB ways anyway.

Actually, yes, we were always using bumber plates AND we had plywood platforms. We never dropped weights directly onto the concrete floor.

And I was just FINALLY getting the double knee bend transition into the second pull of the clean this past week!!! Of course, coach thought I lifted really well, but I had to hear that from my teammate & not right from him. He goes & says, "Yeah, she did well tonight, really good." to him over the phone later that night & barely a word of positive feedback to me.

 

[makedah]

GLADIOLA SMASH!!!!

 

[Robert Jan]

lmao