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The original was posted on /r/weightlifting by /u/musti30 on 2024-11-18 00:42:06+00:00.
I don’t know if this suits this subreddit but i want to tell people that do the sport that I do and can maybe give me advice.
6 days ago I competed in a team competition. I only had little sleep ranging between 0hours and 4hours in the last 4 days before the competition.
I told my trainer that I only want to do my first attempts and stop as I was not feeling well. As he didn’t want our team to lose he told me that that’s only possible if there’s no possibility that we would lose.
I did my first attempt at the snatch at 95kg - 20kg under my pr and a weight that I felt comfortable with. It went bad as I pushed it to the front and had to save it. I never did that weight so badly but thought that it’s just a momentary blunder.
My trainer told me that he wants me to do 102kg. I said it’s fine I can do 105. I regret this decision.
He begrudgingly said okay but if you fail this attempt don’t come back to training next week. With a fake confidence I said no worries and went to the platform.
This time I pushed the bar completely away from me making me run forward for the chance to save it. In that moment my elbow overextended but I still didn’t let go. I tried to push through the overextension but then I heard a loud rip followed by a sharp pain on the inside of my elbow.
I cannot describe how I feel. I wish I had let that bar go…
After the injury my trainer told me that I was playing around too much, not focusing on the technique as I did many competitions before.
I got angry in that moment and told him that I wasn’t playing and I did focus to which he said nothing
I went to the doctor the same day and he told me there’s a possibility my ulnar collateral ligament may be torn.
I started weightlifting about 1.5 years ago. I fell in live with it, it became my passion. Now that I cannot train I fell into a deep hole. I don’t know what to do with my days. I have nothing else…
The doctor told me not to train at all until he knows exactly how much damage is inflicted on me. My MRI appointment is in 10 hours.
I talked with a physiotherapist the other day and he told me that the elbow will forever feel
unstable if in fact it is torn. Surgery could maybe fix this instability, but will add recovery time.
I’m just so devastated I cannot describe how I feel. I don’t know whether I can ever PR again. I wanted to become national champion one day. I don’t know if that’s possible anymore.
Do you guys know anybody suffering this injury? How did they cope? Is there any book I can read or podcast I can listen to that will give me some new outlook ?
Please Don’t let this post confuse you into thinking weightlifting is inherently unsafe. My ego injured me, the bar was just the medium
thanks for listening to me.
