Sharing my shirt with great Erica The Lifter – our Rising Southern Star
(I am still getting used with this editor, but these pictures are: Erica and me, then Erica lifting 100kg and then me lifting 72,5kg)
I am sore and voiceless but HAPPY – infinitely happy. I met my friends from other towns, people I miss the whole time. My brothers in arms, my buddies, folks I can talk nonsense with and have fun with. As soon as we got there we met Erica and Remy, who came from Campinas. Erica is today our highest Bench Press Wilks in Brazil: she is at the 60kg category and had never used a heavier bench shirt. In fact, she had no shirt at all and was going to take part on the contest unequipped. I asked if she wanted to share mine and we tried it on her. It is a bit large for me and was perfect on her. It would be an adventure: the two of us were the heavier lifting women, so the guys would have to be real fast in stripping me off the shirt and putting it on her.
Before we began, she tried it on and said it felt weird: 90kg was so light that it almost didn’t go down. So I said I wanted her 100kg as my birthday present. It was lot’s of fun! On her second lift, we were so confused that she had no time to put the wrist wraps, but 90kg was so light that she didn’t even feel it. Her 100kg went up like a rocket. She will be on her 120’s easily in three or four months, as soon as she gets used to the shirt.
Mark my words: you will all be hearing a lot from this girl in the next four years. She is only 26 yrs old, we all know this is pretty young for strength sports and something in me says she is our greatest podium promise for the World Championship. About me? Well, no improvement from last year: 72,5kg. Won the open and master 1, master best athlete (Wilks) but way bellow the expected. I am not disappointed: I still had to get familiar with the new “press” command and actually Erica’s accomplishment was much more significant for me than my own performance.
The Championship was really nice, all the special athletes were there (the para-olympics) and I will write more about that later. Today I wanted to praise our Rising Southern Star – ERICA THE LIFTER!!
PS – Watch out for her deadlift and squat… But this is a surprise – I will leave it for the next Championship.
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