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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic)

@sarokel.bsky.social
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Weightlifter, law PhD candidate and personal trainer. I have so many pets it's basically a zoo. Love rock music, classical music, sci fi, crime fiction and horror. Sometimes I do cos play for comic cons. ActuallyADHD

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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Post training chalky legs. Felt pretty good today for the first time in ages. Power cleans for reps at 40kg were comfortable, wrist didn't feel weak in the turnover. Guilty looking dog on bed who shouldn't be there before the "protect the bed from pets" is throw on it. #workout #olympiclifting
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Two training sessions today. Olympic weightlifting practice this morning and then it's accessory work on machines at the gym. Then I eat aaaaaaalllllllllllllll the food right? Have a gorgeous day and be good to each other 😘
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Morning/afternoon/evening lovelies home gym outfit is greys today. Shorts again as it's "supposed" to be warm later. Hell there's even a possibility of sunshine this afternoon in Northumberland which would be a genuine delight.
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Thanks friend!
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I have a new short floaty dress to go with my long socks collection. I feel floaty and full of whimsy. Come skip with me in long grass and lie on a field to look at cloud shapes. Then we shall have cake and wine
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Morning/afternoon/evening second training session today and I'm braving shorts. Hope it's going well as far as days go for you! #workout #olympiclifting
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I went heavy on the accessories as they were not muscle groups I had fatigued over the last few oly sessions and light on the technique to drill patterns and due to fatigue. The exception being overhead squats as I wanted to try for a PB..Nailed it!!!
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Other than that omg I still have so far to go and so much to learn feeling it was a good session. After a busy week today's focus was light technique work plus heavy accessory.
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Thankfully I'm old enough to have been through this point in learning with many other things and know it will pass. But damn if it isn't a tough stage
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I'm 80 sessions and 8 months into learning olympic lifting with a coach. Which means I now know enough to aware of all the flaws I have in technique and it feels like being back to day 1 some sessions.
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Today's socks are pink socks. I love training at weekends. To have time without rushing onto the next thing is lush. Personal best yesterday in overhead squats. I really actually like overhead squats, might do a couple today. #workout #fitover50 #fitmenopause
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Anyone here into:- Olympic weightlifting? Buying pointless but cute blind boxes? Horror movies... especially spooky ones? BMTH and want to give me new recommendations? Being 40/50 something but with the mind of a badly behaved teenage boy? Wanna be friends?
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Today's training socks and top coordinate. Bloooooooo. No hospital appointments today thank f**K. No helping my son clear out the hoarding issue. Just olympic weightlifting and 1 client. Then getting polynucleotides under my eyes. Might ow #workout #olympiclifting
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Today's training socks. Super tired. But there's no sign of blood or lymphatic cancer. The CT showed a breast lump we didn't know about. Biopsy results from the breast lumps she had tested last week this morning. Time to beat the brain demons back with a barbell #workout #olympiclifting
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Today's socks and workout outfit Won't be going for any PBs today, today's Olympic lifting is purely to quieten brain demons. We get the results from my daughters CT and other tests today and honestly I'm beside myself with worry #workoutthreads
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Personal bests this morning in both Snatch and Clean and Jerk. Still have a huge amount to learn and work on technique wise. But yey me #workout
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Today's olympic weightlifting sock and t coordination #workout
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Matching my socks to my vest or t shirt gives me a weird little dopamine hit 🤣
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Today's knee high sock and top colour coordination. Cream socks and brown top. Yes I have a home gym, yes I still coordinate my outfit 🤣 #workout
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Well that's the brain demons quietened for a little while. #workout #olympiclifting
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It's just mind fucking blowing at times isn't it! I'm waiting for her to pull the victim card after this reply. Because of course I'm a meanie and she's just trying to help. Not that her reply on a post about my kid on rare disease day was pure wool audacity
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
If they had an emotional intelligence higher than a washing up sponge they would realise that their comments offering woo treatments on a very open post about someone's child on rare disease day are the problem. Sadly none seem ever to be aware of their actual audacity
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I'm waiting to be told I'm a meanie, in my experience the people who share their "expertise" very quickly pull the victim card when called out.
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Absolutely hilarious. Not at all weird or undermining. I don't think there is ever an occasion I see that man where I don't come away feeling like shit.
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
When you try and take your mum out for a lovely meal and your dad starts joking to your husband about how he can "meet pretty Italian girls" on his ultra in Italy. More than once. My dad thinking it's funny to suggest that my husband can meet "pretty girls".
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
At the moment just focusing on one day at a time and training a lot! Movement kinda keeps me sane (ISH) thank you for asking ❤️
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
If you come at me with this shit on a post I made about my daughter's genetic disorder for rare f**king disease day. You get blocked no questions. Don't care who you are. #yogateachers you are NOT doctors or genetisists. STAY IN YOUR LANE. My god !!!!!
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It's a literal fucking nightmare sometimes
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
She needs at some point to have a preventative double mastectomy and a hysterectomy and faces a life time of checks for cancer. In the middle of all this we try to just enjoy life, but it's a huge unfair shitty burden for her to have to spend a life carrying.
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
As she just had a pre op appointment arrive for the end of March we think that means they are planning to remove the lipoma in April. Next week we get the results on the breast lumps and head CT. This will never end for her.
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
She has a huge lump on her head which appears to be a bone growth not soft tissue. Again we don't know what or why. She has a lipoma that covers the entirety of her left armpit and is strangling nerves in that arm.
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
There are good periods and bad periods. Currently this one is a very bad one. She has been unwell since November. No one knows why. She has multiple breast lumps and on Tuesday had 6 biopsies taken. It was not a good procedure and she had a really distressing autism meltdown in the middle of it.
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I don't normally talk about this stuff on here but it's #rarediseaseday My daughter has PTEN harmatoma tumour syndrome. She had cancer aged 10. She's never really been well since. She's had more biopsies and lumpectomies than I can remember.
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I'm starting the level 1 coaching cert today just for fun
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Yo bluesky, after 7 million days of grey skies in the north of England show me your blue skies from wherever you are. I think I've forgotten what the sky looks like without clouds
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
After which the next five minutes spent with them moves slower than time spent holding a plank. In fact holding a plank would be preferable because mild discomfort would be more entertaining than the sheer bland greyness of their entire personality.
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
What is it with the current "Unpopular opinion but ...." At which point they state the most dull vanilla, commonly held thought in the history of man. It's like the online version of that person you meet who insists they are "super wacky" and "omg so crazy and wild"
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Body "But sleep" Brain "Yup it sucks anyway up you get" And this is why I have accountability buddies I meet online to practice with.
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Oh my days after yesterday's heavy olympic lifting session (heavy for me) my body did NOT want to get up at 5am for yoga. Body was like "But it's a rest day" Brain "Yes but a slow Ashtanga primary series keeps our old knees and elbows up to lifting"
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Advertised as a hand carved statute, price listed at over £40 the description below states "made of resin" You can't "hand carve" resin. The exact same resin statue is available on AliExpress for £4. If you see an ad on socials reverse image search to check it's not drop shipped
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I bought a lurid green swimsuit. The 80s vibes are major. This is my best 80s power pose, the back I love because it shows my Scarab. I also bought a bikini because people on the internet keep saying women over 50 shouldn't wear them. So 🖕to that. #fitover50 #agingdisgracefully
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
@teamquimby.bsky.social thank you for the share!
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Anyone here who lives in or near #Priovac or #split in #Croatia and would be willing to give me a few Croatian lessons while I'm on holiday? The ideal would be a little daily (depending on price) I've picked up a few words but would like to learn properly while on holiday. Please share this ❤️
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Anyone here who lives in or near #Priovac or #split and would be willing to give me a few Croatian lessons while I'm on holiday? The ideal would be a little daily (depending on price) I've picked up a few words but would like to learn properly while on holiday. Please share this ❤️
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Also arrrrrrrggggghhhhh
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
You ever have a day where you are just so fucking fuckitty fucked off at every fucker and his fuckfaced face? Asking for a friend?
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I'm trying to use Chat GPT to create slides and I can confidently reassure you that the world is currently safe from our AI overlords.
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
One of the interesting things about living in my entirely nuerodivergent family is it's taught me to never expect compliments on my appearance. Occasionally I accidentally seek external validation. Then mammothly regret it. Note I says "my family"
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I would strongly recommend starting with a physiotherapist who can help build some baseline strength or a personal trainer who is competent in working with hypermobility. It's genuinely worth investing the time in learning how to strength train safely for your body. Let me know how it goes ❤️
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Sarokel 🏋️‍♀️ (weight lifting academic) @sarokel.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The horror 😱😱
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