Since I was feeling so good on Friday, I decided to drink a couple more ounces than I had been — six instead of four. I'm not really used to drinking coffee but I've never experienced any negative side effects from the caffeine, so I just assumed more would be better, right? Wrong. Scary wrong.
I pounded those six ounces at 5:45 a.m., which was a little stronger than the coffee I had been drinking at the beginning of the week. We were working on snatches that day and about 20 minutes into the workout, I started to feel uncomfortably jittery. My arms were shaking, my heart was racing, and I felt like I couldn't grip the bar.
My coach, Jade, even noticed and said, "Sugar, don't be afraid of the bar. Just get under it and punch it up!" I said to myself, "You're strong, be confident," as I went to snatch the bar up, but I just couldn't straighten my arms. And this was a weight I was used to snatching. It's like my muscles weren't getting the message from my brain, and my body didn't feel like it was working right. I almost dropped the bar, and it was pretty scary to feel that out of control.
I put the bar down, drank some water, and the feeling lasted another five minutes or so, then I felt much better. Thankfully I was able to perform the 16-minute WOD feeling like myself.