every competition you start with the weigh
in because you're in different weight
categories you start with the squat and
you get three attempts of each lift so
you have squat followed by bench
followed by dead-llift
generally people start off with a
very manageable weight they know they
can get it really easily once you
increase you can't go down so if you
miss your second attempt you still have
to lift at least that much in your third
attempt the aim is to get the biggest
total so it's not I mean obviously if
you have a really good squat that's
impressive but you want to have the
biggest overall total in your weight category
So being a high performer it's
nice it does feel like there's a lot of
pressure some of the time a lot of
expectation I guess the nature of the
sport is that you're competing against
other people but I think one of the
things I like most about the sport is it
doesn't matter where you are the most
important thing is that you're just
trying to improve yourself so generally
speaking I set my benchmark as myself I
try not to look at what other people are
doing as I try to just look at past
Remi and try to do a little bit
better than past Remi did and I think
that's probably the healthiest way to
progress in the sport and it seems to
quite well so far
Seeing as this is my third year of my
degree and after I'm a medic so in the
next three years it gets a little bit
more busy I'm trying to kind of tick
things off my bucket list this year I
got an invite to Team GB trials in
March so hopefully those go well I'll be
able to compete at Team GB and so my
aspirations for this year just to get
as big a total as I can at world
championships
essentially weightlifting is a much
older sport than powerlifting in the
past you know people didn't they used to
have barbells and weights but they
didn't actually have to used to have
racks or bench presses those things were
to the recent so all movements started
from the floor and ended up over your
head and that's what the weightlifting
movements come from so weightlifting has
been in the Olympics since before
powerlifting was really a sport and
certainly before became popular since
that point the issue has basically been
around that part of powerlifting has a...
in the
past in this sort of 80's 90's
powerlifting had a bad reputation in
terms of anabolic steroid use and drug
use there weren't any drug tested
Federation's essentially was a free fall
so at that point the Olympic
Committee would not have allowed
Powerlifting to join and at this point
there are lots of drugs tests in
powerlifting Federation's and there's
lots of ways to do it you know drug-free
and a lot of people are going drug free doing it
but there's still that stigma that hounds over the sport
and actually at the moment weightlifting
is having some trouble with with lifters
getting testing positive with water and
things like that so weightlifting might
even there's a risk weightlifting could
be removed in the Olympics so if that
happens I'm sure powerlifting probably
won't happen but I would love to see
powerlifting in the Olympics because
it's a pure strength sport and I think
that's one of the things that the
Olympics is about pushing the human body
to its maximum and the certain physical
attributes
