And I scratched on my third lift," he says. So I tried to hype myself up, went back out there and missed the weight again. "I didn't want to lose more momentum than I had already lost. But I couldn't even talk after the lift because of how mad I was."įor his second attempt, he was angry, but had a couple minutes to re-group.
Whatever is going to go wrong is going to go wrong. And sure enough, on my second attempt, they mis-loaded the weight," says Maddox. "When the weight came off the rack, instantly I knew something wasn't right. His second attempt was his world record lift, something he'd been training his whole life for. So you're twitching and spazzing out," says Maddox. When your brain knows that it's game time, it wants to pump that fresh blood to your muscles, and that's what it's doing. "After that, my chest was cramping up a bit.
"I hadn't taken my last warmup yet when they started," says Maddox.ĭespite that, his first round of lifts went off without a hitch, knocking out 722 pounds. The event started a few minutes earlier than scheduled, which threw off his last scheduled warmup. While he says his pre-warmups went great, timing was an issue. I had a knot in my stomach, I couldn't even eat," he says, but he managed to get down a sausage-egg-and cheese McGriddle ("I can always hold those, those are always clutch") and Pedialyte to keep him hydrated. "The day of the meet, I woke up and I was so anxious.
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