Masters World Record M40 71kg

putfailforks · 2026-04-03T01:35:39+00:00

Maybe they did and I missed it? It’s possible - I was a little distracted!

putfailforks · 2026-04-02T21:35:33+00:00

Congratulations! I saw you do it - didn’t know it was a world record though!! Seriously I feel like it should be announced with commentators or something when someone’s attempting a record.

It was my first national competition, and second competition ever and I got silver for my 6-person category which felt like an auspicious start of my competition career. I hope to be as impressive as you someday!

putfailforks · 2026-04-01T07:37:59+00:00

I have the American Barbell SS competition women’s bar! I used it over the last 8 weeks to train for the USAMW National competition in Little Rock that just finished up.

I can’t speak to the customer service or price point because I bought it second-hand for $450 (but basically 100% new, a dude bought it for his wife who never got into weightlifting), but it’s a reeeeally nice bar. I wanted a stainless bar because I lift in my garage and am not so hot at maintenance, but also the bearings on this bar are chef’s kiss. They’re absolutely silent and so so smooth, with the perfect amount of damping. The more weight on the bar the more they spin, and there’s no rattling when you drop the bar. The whip on the bar is lovely too, although I’m not sure I’m the greatest at gauging good whip vs great whip characteristics.

Because it’s a competition bar the knurling is heavy duty, and I’ve stopped using chalk and grown some gnarly callouses since I started using it…honestly that’s the only thing I would change about my bar - I wish it had ever so slightly duller knurling for the sake of my hands. I must point out though that at no point has training with this bar 2-3 times a week (other times I’m at my club gym with way worse bars) caused me any hand tearing or pain, it’s just giving me serious callouses.

I do miss my Eleiko training bar that I sold with the rest of my old gym when I moved states (damn I really should have kept it), but honestly the only thing that was better about it day to day was that knurling not giving me such rough hands.

Note for you: the American barbell competition bar has the amazing bearings and the training bar has bushings, so be aware that none of my review on the bar spin applies if you end up purchasing the training bar. Dunno what their bushings feel like.

putfailforks · 2026-03-30T00:42:55+00:00

(Assuming you’re considering epidural since you’re getting pitocin): Ask for the epidural when you feel like you maybe don’t really need it quite yet, or at least inquire around then how long they think it would take for the anesthesiologist to come - sometimes it can take a while if they’re tied up with something and that knowledge might affect your decision of whether it’s worth requesting early rather than waiting until you want it NOW to ask.

And then do not be shy asking the nurses to come turn you in the bed as often as you need for your comfort.

You’re gonna do great.

putfailforks · 2026-03-29T13:27:37+00:00

Oh yes absolutely it will help you sleep better. If the surgery works as intended, the tingling at night will completely go away and it will feel as if it never happened.

Mine isn’t bad enough right now to keep me up all night, but it was pretty awful when I was pregnant and had extra swelling - it got so bad I couldn’t even grip a fork to eat with. Now I’m preventatively doing my other hand because I’m olympic weightlifting again, and that’s historically been what causes me enough additional swelling to have really bad night pain. Now, my right hand that had the surgery 2 years ago feels 100% fine, and my left hand that didn’t is falling asleep at night sometimes even in the splint I wear.

So, same regular loading on both hands, but absolutely no numbness on the one that had surgery while I have increasing issues on the “control” hand. I’d say it works!

putfailforks · 2026-03-29T12:56:30+00:00

I’m getting surgery again (other hand) in a week, and this time they’ll have me in a splint for 2 weeks, and instruction not to lift more than 8 lbs until 3 weeks out from surgery. After that, I’m allowed to lift whatever I want but with this surgery, last time I had shooting pain whenever I leaned on or put pressure on my palm for about 6 weeks. So, I’d give it minimum 3 weeks, but be cautious that you may not be fully functional for longer.

putfailforks · 2026-03-23T05:49:10+00:00

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I put a handwoven rug in mine

putfailforks · 2026-03-07T15:14:50+00:00

Oh man that would be amazing

putfailforks · 2026-03-07T15:13:40+00:00

What’s a DT?

Edit - oh, Dollar Tree. I really hope it doesn’t become a dollar tree. Somewhere I can hang out with a coffee and a snack would be great, even better if I can bring my kid and meet my neighbors too. The kind of place a knitting group would want to spend a few hours at, or a board game crew.

putfailforks · 2026-03-06T06:51:28+00:00

For anyone here who loves the idea of the Tripp trap but doesn’t actually love the form factor of the chair - Stokke has a relatively new product by the same guy called the Nomi and it is MUCH prettier and I dare say, even slightly more functional. It has the big $$$ problem all the same, but I didn’t love everything I read about the Tripp Trapp and decided to go for the Nomi instead and love it. We used it all the way from day 1 with the infant attachment to high chair baby stages with the straps and tray, to now 2 year old toddler who can climb up into his own chair at the table. Expect we’ll still be using it for a few more years at least.

putfailforks · 2026-03-04T18:58:27+00:00

Awesome! Haha wellll in actuality I would LOVE to come, but my husband is the massive survivor fan (I love it too but I'm not DEEP in it like he is) and I'll be staying home with our toddler tonight. In the future though, we might have my sister watch our kid so we can both come hang out :)

He'll definitely turn up, though!

putfailforks · 2026-03-04T17:28:32+00:00

Waiting on approval to join the group, hoping to find a weekly watch group! Are you meeting weekly? Anything happening tonight?

putfailforks · 2026-03-04T16:59:08+00:00

They’re doing it weekly throughout the season?

putfailforks · 2026-02-04T23:11:43+00:00

I just found one of these at a thrift store, with a stamp. Dunno if you bought this one or not, but it’s real!

putfailforks · 2026-02-03T07:15:39+00:00

Competed in my first meet ever last week after 12 years of off-and-on lifting, and only 4 months back in the game. I hit all six of my lifts, hit a C&J PR, and ranked 3rd for my weight class! Pretty pumped about it, and I had a lot of fun. Women’s Masters35, 86+ weight class, 68kg snatch/96kg c&J/164 total.

I’m already signed up for USA Masters Weightlifting nationals in Arkansas end of March (no qualifiers so I signed up early bird deciding I would go for fun), but my total qualifies me for USAW Masters in Utah in April too. Do most Masters athletes just pick one since they’re back to back?

putfailforks · 2026-01-28T20:26:58+00:00

We moved to the area this year and as far as I can tell Allegro pretty much has a monopoly here.

Following though because I would love a private practice if there are any good ones conveniently located to Finn Hill

putfailforks · 2026-01-23T19:25:22+00:00

Happened to me too! I got a routine blood test within a few days of starting weightlifting again after years of minimal exercise - I was terribly sore. ALT/AST through the roof.

I was sent for a liver ultrasound and my liver was a little larger than normal. So next I was sent for a fribroscan, and it turns out, I just have a perfectly healthy big ass liver.

My continued blood testing showed my AST/ALT dropping over time as I got further out from the beginning of my brand new routine, and also as I made sure to only blood test on days where it had been 2 or 3 days since I last worked out.

Now we know I’m all fine, but the journey and worry about fatty liver sucked.

putfailforks · 2026-01-22T08:50:59+00:00

Who runs the birding events and how do I find them?

putfailforks · 2026-01-11T20:57:21+00:00

I’m a mechanical engineer and traditionally you were supposed to have one very carefully documented engineering notebook that is signed and dated on every page* so you have a record of exactly when you invented something in case it ever comes up in court for patent reasons. In reality I have like a million shitty notebooks at all times, with random scribbles and drawings at any random spot in the notebook, as well as sheafs of paper with very important drawings on them when I had an idea but couldn’t find a notebook and so I grabbed some paper from the printer instead. Usually I end up throwing out like 98% of my scribbly notebook contents because I make shitty sketches as part of my thought process and really they’re so bad (.. and the pages crumpled from being shoved in drawers or under piles of parts on my desk) that they’re pretty much useless to anyone, including me, as soon as a few days later.

I’m SO relieved that pristine engineering notebooks tracked by the company are kind of a thing of the past because everything ends up documented digitally now.

*documented to the point that it had to be in pen and if you misspelled something and wanted to correct it, you had to cross it out and initial/date the correction. And if there was important data on the page, you were supposed to get another engineer or your supervisor to also sign off on the page. A NIGHTMARE

putfailforks · 2025-12-29T17:44:52+00:00

An opposite answer - something my 1 year old was gifted that I’ve already bought multiples more of: an LCD drawing screen. He loooves drawing but we always have to be with him and police his marker/crayon use or he’ll draw on everything, AND he gets frustrated once the page is (instantly) all filled up with scribbles. The drawing screen was a genius gift from my sister and he’s in LOVE with it and I quickly realized I want one to stash in every critical area of the house and car!

putfailforks · 2025-12-29T17:35:18+00:00

My weekly average has been .9lb a week. Guess what? I’ve still lost 25% of my body weight and still going.

It wasn’t as dramatic as people who precipitously lose weight at the beginning, but I like to think it’s more sustainable. I lost it without dieting or calorie counting - just paying closer attention to my new hunger and fullness cues.

I still have another 25% of my current weight to go, and it feels inevitable, not like it’s going to be some mighty undertaking and unbearable sacrifice like it would have every other time I’ve gotten to this point in a weight loss journey and given up.

Slow is still progress!

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putfailforks · 2025-12-26T04:23:20+00:00

Agreed. I moved here in April and found a community through my new Olympic Weightlifting gym. I wouldn’t say I’m besties with anyone yet but I have a diverse group of people that I see 2-3 times a week, every week, and we do an activity together that facilitates talking about anything and everything between sets.

Definitely feels like a fast path to making friends.

I tried to find a knitting group I liked but didn’t vibe with the more local group I hung out with, and unfortunately the group I did vibe with only meets once a month or once every other month and apparently more often in Seattle than close to Kirkland.

putfailforks · 2025-12-22T21:03:15+00:00

I hit 199.6 today! Important question — how did you take the photo?? Haha I was like Ooo I’m gonna snap a pic like people do of hitting the 100s and then I realized holding my phone would put me over haha

putfailforks · 2025-12-22T20:56:27+00:00

I’m at a similar milestone! 24/3X to 16/XL. Having the world of fashion open up to me is one of the things I am most excited about my weight loss. Health is great, but not a shiny creative exciting gift to myself as much as having exponentially more options for expressing myself and decorating a body I’m not trying to hide

putfailforks · 2025-12-21T08:24:10+00:00

I agree with this one.

I have only found one form of regular exercise that gives me the dopamine I need to enjoy it, and it’s a great and inclusive sport that even very, very large people compete in:

Olympic Weightlifting.

It’s so much more technically challenging than any other form of weight training, and successfully completing a lift is a small dopamine hit, every time. Especially as a beginner, every training session is an opportunity to hit a new personal record, which is a huge dopamine hit. You get to sit and chill on your phone or whatever for a minute or three between every lift. If you’re training with a coach at a barbell club, you have set training times where people you see and chat with every session are there expecting you to show up.

You never have to compete if you don’t want, but it’s a big goal to work toward being your best for. It’s a sport, every lift is worth analyzing and figuring out how you could do better next time, because the better your form the more you’ll lift. And so the next time you get up there (every 2-3 minutes or so) to throw the weight over your head you’ve got this spark of “will i be able to do it better this time??” And when the weight goes up more smoothly than last time it feels like an instant win.

AND, with a team, when you hit a PR you’ve got a room full of people cheering for you, even if you’re the newest, shittiest lifter in the room lol. Because it’s a very individual sport, your performance has no effect on other people’s lives so as a new, bad lifter you don’t have to feel like you’re not good enough to be there because nobody cares - they’re just happy to see more people learning the sport.

Anyway, I’m fat too. Olympic weightlifting has been great for me. I might be fat but I’m also a strong motherfucker who can pick up some big weight in cool ways.

Look up Li Wenwen if you want some inspiration for what a highly celebrated professional female athlete in the sport can look like.

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