Alba Bostrom on her reign, competitors, how she mentally leveled up, and more!

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How did Alba’s early experiences at junior worlds shape her mindset for senior competition?

6 Pack Lapadat 0:02

Elba last time we were in Druskin and Kai Lithuania for the world championships. entirely different scenario the way you play it out. And I was interviewing you for the IPF uh Instagram reels and you had said Your maturity as an athlete, the way you approached it. I remember actually Joey, your coach, was saying, I want you to do the open just to get your feet wet, gain some experience, and feel what it's like. Um, and uh you didn't place the you want the way you want the place two years ago, and two years later. The difference in your performance, how you handle yourself, everything. Tell me a little bit about how you feel the difference was.

Alba Bostrom 0:50

Oh, it's such a big difference. So um I was just thinking that like last time when I came uh to Drusinka in Lithuania in my first open worlds, everything felt I was I felt like I had everything under control for like the first time because I had a ton of junior worlds that I failed at. You know, I had three years in a row. I had failed. But I felt like I had a breakthrough on my last fail where I felt like okay, I learned stuff. Did a nationals Um and felt like okay, I've I figured things out. Like I know how to get stronger, I have a system now, I feel mature. And then I went into open worlds and thought that, you know, now I'm gonna do great. Um and I did do pretty well, but with some mistakes and realized, you know, not quite there yet.

Alba Bostrom 1:39

Um and it was my last year as a junior uh lifter, so it was my last year to win the junior world. So That fueled me to, you know, had the junior worlds performance. get to Sheffield and then we had the bad Sheffield. But now that I come back, I'm like, you know what? I did not have everything under control back then. Like I was a good lifter, but I've improved so much just in my maturity, my confidence, my training. Like it's like you can always it just proves that sometimes you think that you're doing everything you can. usually there's always something more. And 'cause every every year now I look back and I look back at the past year and I'm like, what were I thinking? But during that year I thought I was doing everything perfectly.

Alba Bostrom 2:22

And and so I feel like, well, things maybe things aren't happening and then I look back a year after and I'm like, oh well, things have happened and that's funny for me to see that you can grow so much. There's always something more that you can do. Even if it's like it's some mental thing.

6 Pack Lapadat 2:38

Are you glad you did that worlds open worlds two years ago? Do you think that benefited you uh to make this progress?

Alba Bostrom 2:46

For sure. 'Cause that was like the like it was a setting point for the junior worlds and I feel like the junior worlds I needed open worlds to do the junior worlds performance and where I did really great. And then that set me up to, you know, get to go to World Games and get me to go to Sheffield. And those two competitions are what made me do a great worlds last year where I became the first my first open uh world title and then of course Sheffield. I feel like they were two big meets and I needed to do open worlds to be able to do the gym worlds that I did. So it's literally like a butterfly effect. Everything has played its role into taking me to this point.

6 Pack Lapadat 3:29

It's interesting 'cause sometimes you see in lifters where they don't want to show up for the big reveal until they think they're like podium gonna win.

Alba Bostrom 3:38

That was me until Joey. Really? 'Cause I um I actually was allowed to go to open worlds back in twenty twenty three. And I got the question but I said no, 'cause I was like, I'm not gonna podium and I was li I was thinking I'm not gonna spend my time travelling and go to worlds if I can't win. I was like, I I I'm not g I'm not gonna do that at that point. And that's why I only went for junior worlds, 'cause for junior worlds I could win. Didn't, but I could. I was very close. Um And so that was kinda my mindset. But then Joey then we realized like I could definitely there's a chance I could hit podium, which means, you know, I am not too far away in my numbers from, you know, Meg, which means maybe a wild card for Sheffield.