Update from Katie
February 21st, 2011 | Published in Stumpblog | 4 Comments
Reader Katie M is featured on our reader mail page here. She’s been busy recently. Here’s the email she just sent:
Hi Krista,
I want to give you a progress update on me. Years ago, you taught me to do a pull up. A real, big-girl pull up. I felt invincible, like I could take on the world. It was a major life changer because I was always the last girl to be picked for teams in PE class in school. I was an uncoordinated nerd.
So, in the natural progression of things, I began powerlifting. My last meet — yesterday — I got a 340-lb. squat, 175-lb. bench press and 300-lb. deadlift. I’m in the 132-lb. weight class (between 123 and 132 lbs.).
I just like to keep you in the loop since you started this insanity. Here’s the video:
The squat is ugly because the guy running the monolift (the contraction that holds the squat bar) wasn’t paying attention, but the lift was still good, so no harm. And I need to work on the rounded back on my deadlift. Still, not shabby for a nerd, I think.
Thank you for everything,
Katie
February 21st, 2011at 3:25 pm(#)
The timing on this post couldn’t be better.
I literally just got in the door from my first day of lifting using the beginner’s regimen under “No fat chicks.” I, too, aspire to do a pull-up – something I’ve never, ever, been able to accomplish (I’m 27).
The advice and encouragement in this blog has done a lot to help me climb out of a very dark place in my life – and reading about the successes of my fellow “uncoordinated nerds” is a big part of that.
February 22nd, 2011at 11:13 am(#)
Awesome! And totally inspiring!
February 23rd, 2011at 5:02 pm(#)
Katie,
I just had to respond to this. Those are great lifts, period. Now get going on that double body-weight bench and triple body-weight squats and dead-lifts. You are awesome. Please don’t forget it. -BC
March 3rd, 2011at 3:17 am(#)
Awesome, Katie! You weigh what I do – but boy can you use it FAR better! Inspiring. I’ll never be a great bencher (long arms, shallow chest) but I do love me some deadlifts…