# @oliviareeves.71 on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPzHGLiiW_U
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35653461-oliviareeves71-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-10-14T17:48:53.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Olivia Reeves OLY (@oliviareeves.71) — https://gondola.cc/oliviareeves.71

## Caption

Leading up to competing I would typically describe my emotions as anxious, a bit scared, confident, and ready. Reinforced by myself or others I always feel the need to do better than my last performance, which so far that’s been an unusually linear progression. Each time I get a little more scared that I won’t live up to my expectations and I’ll finally have just a bad day.
 
My secret you ask? Take a breath and have fun. I try to remember what it was like at my first Worlds when there was no bar of expectation. I think of what I would tell myself then and apply it to now. I truly enjoy competing and when I’m focusing on making lifts is when I have the most fun. 

Side note: The 9kg jump from 146kg to 155kg for the world record is not a strategy I recommend, however it’s now my favorite competition lift. I honestly can’t believe I did that. And I made it. Kinda impressed myself a bit there.
 
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#tyrsport #animalstyle #iwillbeunoworldchampiononeday #thatmakes6backflipsforFerg

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