Congrats to the winners and to Team elitefts member Lily Starobin and S5 trainee Jessica Maksem. Keep your eyes peeled for a pair of meet reports this week.

Today at the 2019 Arnolds Sports Festival: Team elitefts athlete Matt Mills competes in the 2019 Arnold Amateur Strongman World Championships. He clears the Log Clean and Press and the Farmers Walk and is placed in the middle of the heavyweight class. Keep an eye out for more updates tomorrow, including XPC Worlds results.

I left the biggest meet of my powerlifting career so far with a PR total, but more importantly, I learned eight valuable lessons for the future.

Bad meet? I don’t think that means what you think it means.

I believe you should treat every injury as a gift. While fighting to make it back to the platform I learned many things.

I strongly considered not competing in the meet this past weekend.

I still had a chance to total 2400…but then I failed my deadlift.