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My goal is to lose 30 pounds and drop 8 to 10% body fat and get back in the shape I was before my knee injuries.
Goal (Long):
I have been involved in competitive sports and lifting for most of my life. After competing in powerlifting, bodybuilding and figure competitions for several years I let that part of my life fall by the wayside as my professional career became more and more intense and time consuming. In 2007 I realized that I truly missed being an athlete, so I joined a local all woman's flat track roller derby team and began training hard again. Unfortunately in two separate incidents 5 months apart I injured first my right and the my left knee, requiring surgery on both. After the second injury I just sort of gave up. I couldn't work out, I couldn't skate... I felt like my body had betrayed me and I became very depressed. The depression led to a lot of couch surfing, overeating and partying way too often and pretty soon I realized I had gained about 15 pounds. I am not certain whether or not I actually want to compete on stage again, or, if I do whether it will be in bodybuilding or in figure, but I do know that I want to get back down to about 145 pounds at 14% bodyfat and work my way back up to squatting 315 pounds.
Good luck getting your core back to normal. Amazing how all those little muscles tie in together and how when one is tweaked the rest of them don't want to move.
Just thought I'd say hello to a fellow skater! :) Saw your posts on the benching thread. I'm an inline speed skater. I was invited onto a newly forming roller derby team when I lived in NC but declined cause it would interfere too much with my speed skating.
