recent Instagram post<\/a> of an attempted lift in training visualised the problem for her followers and while she appears bemused in the video, that is a coping strategy, the reality has been incredible challenging for the lifter to comprehend.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cIt just didn\u2019t seem like something that should be possible 15 years into a career, but it started initially in the gym probably around 2018 for seemingly no reason and then became a chronic problem in in lockdown,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt probably did develop as a bit of a symptom of having to sort of just cope with everything that was going on at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was training on my own in a garage, it was cold and it was a bit dangerous because I was pretty much touching the ceiling with a bar at times that I imagine is where probably a lot of the hesitation came from.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems like it’s taken me a while to even be able to pinpoint when it happened and why and I still can’t find a logical reasons but perhaps whatever mental health struggles I was dealing with expressed themselves in that way.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s also gone through phases, where sometimes it\u2019s good and I\u2019ll forget it\u2019s a problem them other times it\u2019ll come back with vengeance. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut by telling myself to calm down and build things back up slowly I\u2019ve been able to manage things and make gains which is really encouraging.\u201d<\/p>\n
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