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Michelle Jenneke - just an awesome chick. - Health, Fitness, and ...

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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 2:49 pm?? ?Post subject: Michelle Jenneke - just an awesome chick.

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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 5:03 pm?? ?Post subject:

I must find that italodisco song. I LOVE italodisco.

But it's good her outlook made her win the race. If you're anxious, you can't give it 100%, it's one of those weird paradoxes of sports. You gotta be relaxed to win, but still care enough to perform. Just a weird weird paradox, it applies to life in general I think. Not being anxious, being as carefree as possible, but then...caring enough to succeed? It's so hard, getting into the mental zone she is in. But mentality, not ability, is seemingly what separates winners and losers.

Vasily Alexeev, Olympic weightlifter, I think had this to say about it.

Quote:

"I remember, at the time of the championships in Lima, that Reding in
training lifted record weights. He had acquired a terrific strength and huge
muscles, but he lost to me, even though he was physically stronger. Why?
Serge and I had different ways of training. Others thought for him. He
carried out the suggestions of his coach, Dupont. Roughly speaking, Reding
took in 'the science of winning' though his ears. And this showed when he was
on his own with the barbell. But, as for me, I thought for myself. Serge
also lost because he wanted to beat me. That's all he thought about. He
worried constantly and burned himself out before he even got to the platform
. . . "
For me the most important thing is to beat myself, to lift the barbell that
up to this point I have not yet lifted. My rivals don't worry me very much.
It's good when your competitors are strong and bad when they are weak. The
same Reding, now dead, when he appeared without me, beat the records every
time. And I treated him respectfully because he always kept me in shape. Now
Enaldiev, Rachmanov, Plachkov, and Bonk do the same ...

"At the championship, I am in a proper fighting mood. When I put on my outfit
and my shoes, this very process transforms me. I become more energetic, more
excited. It's here that it's important not to lose your head, you should
compete as much as possible with sense ...

"What advice can I give to the young ones who come out onto the platform with
their teeth chattering from nerves? First, you must enter a competition well
prepared. And for this you must train sensibly; you must work on yourself
physically but save your nerves. It doesn't pay to get excited over nothing
while training, to show off your courage, to swagger. Save this charge for
the contest. And then be alert when you go up to the barbell . . . And, to
be frank, even with all my experience, I am sometimes very nervous--you
cannot imagine ...

http://web.archive.org/web/20100317110706/http://www.elitefts.com/documents/science_of_winning.htm

She's quite good looking, too, haha.

But yeah, her attitude reminds me a bit of Lydia Valentin, female Olympic lifter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng1rkNXyh0g She's just so...lively, compared to the other female lifters who are all deadly serious looking.
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