While doing a WOD (about two weeks before the competition), Coach Bets from
CrossFitMNL asked me and my brother if we wanted to join a raw powerlifting championship. I was really hesitant at first because I didn't have any training and I'm not even strong, nor did I know anything about powerlifting- but she told me "Game, just treat it as a PR day!" so okay, I'm game!
She trained me around 5x prior to the event and I learned to do a sumo deadlift and bench for the first time in those 2 weeks! Lol the powers of coach Bets! \o/
September 19, 2014 | The Night Before
Classes were suspended because it was raining hard in Metro Manila. I couldn't stop looking for food at home.. All I did was eat. Then around 11pm, my dad wanted to get halo halo in Iceberg but for some reason we ended up in Manila Peninsula hahahha
Archie, Anton, Isabelle and Me!
And my halo-halo
"carb loading" daw
September 20, 2014 | Day 1
The weigh in was at 11am, so we were there by 10:30. (I'm in the 63kg class by the way!)
After weigh in, we ate at Mister Kebab right infront of the competition venue.
Shawarma plate, pita bread, and hummus nomnomnom!!!
The event was a bit delayed, we started at around 1:30-2pm and here's how it went:
Squats
"Why sad"
I realized that upon lifting (anything), everything in my visual field suddenly becomes blurred- I'm not aware of who's watching or if there are people infront of me. Focussss
Taking time to set up
PRed at 72.5kg!
I didn't have any pictures with my bench whoops... . . . . . .
Deadlift
Warm up warm up
1st attempt @ 87.5kg
Meee
3rd attempt @ 100kg
Such face but PRed at 100kg from last week's 95kg!!! \o/ \o/ \o/
Here's my coach's (Betina Bordeos (with 5 Asian Powerlifting Records!!!)) Deadlift:
Her 2nd attempt at the time
She's calling her illuminati friends (jk)
And she goes for another one
And breaks her own record (without even training for it ........wowza)
So the women's event (day 1) is done!
This calls for.....
WINE NIGHT!!! \o/ \o/ \o/
"We'll just have one bottle! Wine lang naman yan eh :)"
"Let's have one more? Super okay pa ako"
... I don't know how we got to the 3rd bottle. LOL we also planned to get ice cream from Family Mart then Apple Pie ala mode + Brownie ala mode from Jack's Loft. Well I "sort of" died after the ice cream so we didn't get the latter. HAHAHA "wine lang naman eh"
One tip from coach Bets:
The amount of alcohol you can consume is directly proportionate to the amount of kilos you can lift.
HAHAHA I'll keep that in mind coach Bets! ;)
September 21, 2014 | Day 2
It's time for my brobro to lift!!!
Coach Arvs' 3rd Deadlift Attempt @ 185kg
Job Wi's 3rd Deadlift attempt @ 230kg
And his squats!
I didn't get to take much pictures yet again..
Awarding tiiiiiiime!!!
Collegiate division
Junior Division
Open Division with Betina Bordeos and Angeline Feliciano
Crrroooossfit!
And I also made new friends from UP-Zest! Woopwoop
The SFH CFMNL Powerlifting Team
Kathleen Chiang
63kg division - Silver (Juniors), Silver (Collegiate), Bronze (Open)
Betina Bordeos
63 kg division - Gold (Open) + 4 New National Records!!!
Gabriel Guerrero
66kg division - Bronze (Open)
Arvin Salvador
74kg division - (Open)
Grech Go
83kg division (Open)
Job Wi
93kg division - 4th (Open)
Archie Chiang
93kg division (Juniors)
We're mostly first timers and this meet is definitely not going to be the last!
Thank you Coach Bets for this wonderful opportunity! A new window has opened for me and I got hooked and I can't waaaait to train with you!! And Nuat and foodtrip and well, no drinking (til December or .... ) wahahahha \o/
Photo credits: Rafael Gozum
