Meet Recap: Sophie competed in the USAPL Wolf Fitness Summer Showdown, where she was able to execute on a perfect 9 for 9 day for a 31lb. PR total and winning best overall female lifter! Sophie finished the day with a 286lb. squat, 165lb. bench press, and a 413lb. deadlift for a 865lb. total, and likely had at least another 2.5kg on each of those lifts! This marked the first time competing in 3 years for Sophie, due to somewhat of a freak stress fracture in her humerus that was undiagnosed for almost 3 years. When I first started working with Sophie, she had been experiencing arm/shoulder pain on bench for a couple years, and after many unsuccessful attempts at trying to figure out how to get her out of pain, as well as working with John Song, she had some imaging done to find out she had a stress fracture during this whole time period. After a little over 4 months of recovery, we started back up and not only was she healthy and had zero pain, but Sophie also did a 180 with her mindset in training. She really started to just enjoy the opportunity to train, and it made a world of a difference in how consistently well she was performing in the gym session after session. It was awesome to see all that work and struggle over the last 3 years culminate into this day, and it was very well deserved!

Division: Open

Weight Class: 6kg

Squat: 286lbs.

Bench: 165lbs.

Deadlift: 413lbs.

Total: 865lbs.

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