2 week update

Soooo i done my first 2 weeks of eating well, weight training, cardio and armwrestling training! It feels great i missed so muchhhh the muscle ache n drainage n motovation and most of results. These 2 weeks have made me strong i know now i did not loose anything it just needed a kick in the ass and i feel power! My wrist is feeling incredible! I lost 4kg and i feel a lot trimmer its amazing how eating well can make you feel so good in such a small amount of time me and my baby boy usually take a hour walk in the morning but now in england its snow time and i do not want him out in the cold plus it is difficult to walk on ice! So i change that for my gym bike when he sleeps and it feels ok just a dead ass! :-) sooo as of wednesday i shall be in germany with my husband to be :-)))))) how exciting!!!
Have a great week ill update from germany when i train with team HANAU! The best in whole of germany i live them guys! Xxxxx

Picture: 2nd arm training day in 1.5 years :-)

Armwrestling!

Today will be my first armwrestling training in a long time!! I have done a few with kevins team in germany but now its more long term with my guys :) im so excited i dont care how much muscle ache i have im gunna train!!! Will update later!

Im back!

Day 1 of training since i was pregnant and my boy is 6 months old!!!
My dad bought me dumbells and kettlebells for christmas (he knows his girl) haha and i had a load of stuff from years of training like resistance bands (from the lovely german petra spatz) push up turning handles, armwrestling tools, wrist and ankle weights, boxing equiptment, work out dvds!! My dance dvds are awesome i love them!!! Really make you work an its a hell of a lot of fun!! Im really weak and smaller (muscle) and more fatter than ever before so i have a lot too do!! But i will try hard to come back!


I LOT has happened since i last wrote when i was half way theough pregnancy i think my baby boy is amazing and kevin is great too! We got engaged at christmas and will marry in march :) we also will build a house in germany and soon live together as a family again! Life is really fucking awesome!
A lot has happened but i wont bore you :) wish me luck for my training coz god i need it!

I'm alive and still not a mummy!

well on Friday the 15th June (5 days ago) i completed my pregnancy, but my little Jacob has still not decided to show his little face!! iv veeery fed up of being a whale and just cant wait to meet him and get my body back to normal! i am worried that the doctors will have to make my baby be born un naturally as if he is longer than 2 weeks past his date they will make it happen and i really don't want that i just want him to come naturally and normal!

Kevin has been in the UK with me for almost 3 weeks waiting but still nothing! im hoping it will be very soon as he is now fully engaged (his head is completely down in my pelvis and ready!) i really want him before the weekend as we want to go up north to a armwrestling championship, i will not compete of course but might as well start Jake early!

plus UEAF euro football has begun which i love! England has passed group stages beating Sweden and Ukraine and drawing with France, we will meet Italy in the quarter finals on Sunday! me and Kevin are now at war! hahaha all good fun!

i will write back hopefully very soon with a picture of my baby boy! :)
then back to armwrestling posts!
wish me luck

28 weeks! not long left!

There's really no time left until i meet my little man! at a maximum until the date given 12 weeks! that's absolutely nothing!!!! i feel him moving all the time! its really an amazing feeling :) i bought lots of lovely clothes for him and his cot, Moses basket, push chair! he has everything now waiting for the day he chooses to come and meet us all! :) i cant wait im getting veeeery big! and i'm sure i will get  lot bigger as time goes past! :)
so here are some more pictures we went to our last session of 3D scans! they was incredible! he didn't move much the first time so we couldn't get any good pictures at all! he is already lazy like his dad hahaha :) but we did go back later that day and he was much more co operative for us thanks Jacob :) x

Progress on our little MAN! :)

Jacob Andrew Berberich!

these were private 3D/4D scans we had done at 16 weeks to find out the sex of our little BOY! early haaa so amazing!

 this is the most recent scan at 20 weeks :) getting chubby hehe x

now we wait until 26 weeks until we have the private scans again which i am so excited about!!! they will be so amazing!!! hopefully he decides to move this time! he is a very lazy boy! :)
i am very happy i love feeling him moving around and kicking in my belly and it is a very big belly now! haha!
hope you liked them.
i know i do not write here any more but i do nothing in armwrestling anymore obviously but i will be going to Germany in 2 weeks to watch Kevin WIN his nationals! wish him luck! :)

life is very diffrent!

well as a mummy to be! it is so diffrent how my life is, i still dont belive it myself!!!! a beautiful baby growing inside me!
i cant eat certain things, i can not train how i know! no heavy weights no long runs i must never be out of breath totally, all i can do is swim! and lucky i enjoy it! i have started to swim with dad but i can not use the sauna or steam room!!! very frustrating sometimes but i know it is worth it :)
i really miss training, just getting fatter ever day haha!
but work is normal i will finish work in April for my 1 year maternity leave! i will also visit Germany for the expo arm wars very heavy pregnant surrounded by fitness models should be really feeling sexy! haha
but im happy have bought some small things for the baby and on 30th December i will do a 3D scan to find out the sex of my baby before the hospital appointment hehe very expensive but i don't care it will be amazing!! i will show you all the incredible pictures when i have them!
but have a very merry Christmas! and a happy new year if i don't speak to you sooner!
Love
Joanne & Bump :)


12 weeks and 3 days :)

Joanne & Kevin's creation!

the reason i will be taking a break from armwrestling :D 12 weeks pregnant my baby will be coming to the world on the 15th June 2012! :)

very happy!
Love Joanne!

A small break for me :)

well, i cant say much just yet, just that i will be leaving the armwrestling training and competitions for a while due to some reasons i will talk about when the time is right :) but it is not a bad thing at all!!!
and i will be right back it good condition (maybe) in no time! my next competition in fact will be in Belgium Rochefort challenge in July very excited i don't miss it! i will hopefully visit the ARMWARS in Germany too in April so that should be so cool!
but i promise to tell you all more in a few weeks when im ready :)
Love Joanne

Armwars Summary

the armwars competition in Madrid was incredible! jesus it does go sooo fast though!
we had no time to look at Madrid's attractions just the whole time inside the expo and looking round buying LOADS of supplements and getting loads free haha!
i got soo many new yummy products i cant wait to use!
but the comp itself was good! i won my match against Caroline Thommen 5-1 which is good it was funny the one she took was so annoying for me, i mean i am not angry to loose but i had the strap match and the strap covering half way up my thumb! could not even bend it at all, no bend, no grip, no prower, lost! annoying!! but I'm really fine! i hooked i top rolled i done it all was awesome and very comfortable :)
we made a very good show!!
i did not pull left as it would hurt me tooo much and i have no wishes to be in pain for 4 weeks after it so i chose to be strong and resist pulling left!
cool things is that we got to meet Ronnie Coleman! lovely Mrs Todd got me to the front of the line and got a picture with him :D awesome, we watched cheer leading, bodybuilding, strongman, fitness lots was really great! and of course the armwretling we got to have the main stage 2 times during the weekend too! :) was great! and Arnold Schwarzenegger came onto our stage and was cheering on the guys who were pulling and had a small interview too, he looks rough as hell! but of course a legend.
so enough writing I'm sure u will find all the results on WOA soon :) i will leave u with a few pics!

My Genadi Kvikvinia impression :)

 Strongman

 Arnold at ARMWARS

 Mik Todd, Me & Geoff Hale

 Bodybuilding

 ARMWARS on the main stage

 Jan in my shoes haha

 Me & Ronnie Coleman

 Me & Caroline Thommen

BYE!

well a quick bye message i shall begin my packing, make me and Kevin some meatballs and spaghetti and we shall be laving! ::D i am very excited! strong, ready for my match and Holiday!!!
wish me luck
Good bye!!
Love
Joanne!

things...

well!
having lots of fun in life haha and lots of bad things but nothing to serious
at the end of the month i will be moving back to my mums house :( not sad to be there but sad to leave mine and Kevin's lovely little home after a year of being here, he will be going home to Germany to start his business and i need to finish my qualification before i leave to go to Germany, we still have a lot to sort out as it is a really big move.
but we have been doing lots of armwrestling and training not much at all in the gym got so lazy for it but weird is that i feel stronger haha! this Friday i will be flying to Madrid! I'm so excited really cant wait to go there armwrestling Caroline thommen of Switzerland in a supermatch for the Arnold classic Europe event!
England right now is sooooooo HOT! it is October and we was at the beach yesterday!! crazy
me and Kevin also celebrated our 2 year anniversary how fast time really goes is crazy still cant believe it! :)
times are lovely i will up date shortly before we leave!
have fun everyone!

Milton Keynes Armwrestling!

we went to support our neighbouring teams Milton Keynes about 1 hour drive away! they hosted a novice comp which is awesome it gives everyone that has never pulled again to have a go against someone the same level of knowledge in armwresting as them and time to mingle with some pro's! i had lots of fun in the south of England is there much less armwrestlers than up north but we are slowly building plus as little as we are, we are defiantly much better than the northerners hahaha joke guys!...not really

sooooo! haha the comp went good lots of new guys interested in joining our sport and thats the beauty of novice comps fresh blood! i mean we all started and someone like that right? john brzenk did and look at him now! you never know who you will meet that's why it is important to do things like this! so i obviously could not enter the competition as it was novice and no woman there either! so I ENTERED THE MENS CLASS! and not the weight class i entered the champion of the champions class ( top 2 athletes from each weight class can enter only) and i got 3rd out of about 8/9 men from 65kg to 100+  i think! haha was really cool! not so cool for the guys i beat (all northern) hahahahaha :)
i really had fun!
thank you everyone! congratulations on taking the first step to our beautiful armwrestling world!

here is a video of my first match

Joanne Poole 70kg+ v Vinnie Jones 100kg+

Bad writer!

i know i haven't updates a lot at all, but we are so busy i just don't have the time! with working early in the morning training and going out busy busy busy!
but i have been focusing on Madrid the Arnold classic Europa! I'm really excited about this i have a match with Caroline Thommen of Switzerland! should be a nice match i feel pretty confident going into this as i beat her right handed very easy in Switzerland, however lef hand she will totally kill me haha as would any good armwrestler! i still have a really deep injury in my left arm since Sandra rodland of Norway in 2009! so i will not pull left i know the result and there is really no point in making my injury worse for something i wont have a chance in! :) but a right handed super match i think will go 6-0 to me! well i hope so anyway i don't want to under estimate her as she trains hard and it was April this year i pulled her in a competition, we met in Manchester when i had my last super match and even then i felt very confident with her so i don't worry! i just wanna go on the beach and get a good tan if i am honest! hahaha :) it will be a awesome event i will see some friends i haven't seen in agggges like my good old Norwegian boys that i met in in 2008 Europeans!!! long time ago so i will be so nice! we fly to Madrid on the 7th October and back on the 10th so a nice weekend break will be very well deserved! and awesome!
so i will try to remember to update some more :)
speak soon!
Love
Joanne

im alivee

I'm sorry i haven't wrote anything recently, but thing is i have not much to write! I'm a bit lazy haha I'm not training much but some and i still feel strong as hell! but it will become more intense soon i promise i have my supermatch with Laura Branding from Germany coming up soon, funny we never met in a competition except from when i was a child, so im really excited to see how it goes and the best of all is that it will all take place in MADRID!!! amazing for the Arnold classics europa!!! gunna be sooo sick!! :)
i have began learning German now with Rosetta stone so when ever I'm on the new sexy pink laptop thats mainly what i am doing, and i don't wanna write about any old crap as it is way to boring to write let alone read! haha, so a small boring update, me and Kevin are awesome we have some near future plans to move to GERMANY! YES - ME moving to Germany for a awesome experience and fun i hope can never imagine leaving England but I'm only 1 hour flight away right! so we are thinking of going in November time wooooow!
we have Madrid comp and maybe Over the top in Germany if we go in September and we planning to do a holiday again before we move to Germany, like a fresh start :)
so that's about it really! :)
will update wen i have some more interesting news
bye!
Loe
Joanne

Rochefort, Belgium 2011

The weekend was fabulous as always! we arrived in the early evening time on Thursday around 6pm DIDN'T miss the ferry this time! :) first was to the weight in! i entered 70kg left hand and right hand 70kg and 70+! exciting, i actually didn't want to pull left as it is hurting as always since 2009! but i did, the way i see it is i rested it long enough and it ain't getting no better so i pull with it less than normal and hit the weight training harder to build muscle around the joints to help support them.
buuut anyway, we weighted in then went to the all famous Buffalo lunch restaurant, its the only place when we are at this comp for every armwrestling teams there, we had a nice meal met with my crazy Pierre haha saw the Swiss and dutch team aahhh the dutch one of my favourites!, then all of the guys come in!
Friday was competition day for left hands! not one for me to panic about i never expect to do well with left but i actually surprised myself! i beat lots of women and there was loads in the classes more than double in my class than at worlds senior level!!! it was incredible! and the level was so high! Kazakhstan,Swiss, Germany all great countries for women armwrestlers. so with left overall i took 3rd!
next day was right and i was entered into 2 classes the open class had 16 women in!!!!! that is incredible i was shocked!!! i had a AWESOME competition in this weight class i beat so many and had long hard fights, i even TOP ROLLED!!!!! i won too! i top rolled and won a match, i still don't believe it myself! just incredible
i really had the best comp of my life, fighting and thinking, using techniques and powerful!!! i really learned a lot and no i did not win the comp either class, but i don't give a shit, i gained so much here! and I'm so so happy with my performance, you will have a video coming soon!!!
then we had after party! was not as good as always had some nice meals, and lots of drinks and talked a lot to all the other armwrestlers and just enjoyed life and our sport!
thanks to everyone who supported me and wished me luck! i really done my best and you should be proud, it was great!
Love
Joanne

RESULTS

Woman Right 70+ 1 SWI 7 JUILLERAT LAURE

Woman Right 70+ 2 GER5 SWIENTEK GINA

Woman Right 70+ 3 GER7 CAMILLA KATTSTROM

Woman Right 70+ 4 GER11 TANJA KILLMAIER

Woman Right 70+ 5 ENG 2 POOLE JOANNE

Woman Right 70+ 6 GER8 LAURA BRANDING

Woman Right 70+ 7 NED36 VANDERVEEN CHANTAL

Woman Right 70+ 8 ITA2 DAPICE CARMELA

Woman Right 70+ 9 CZE11 SLOVAKOVA MONIKA

Woman Right 70+ 10 NED25 PATER DALI

Woman Right 70+ 11 HUN6 BUTI ANNA

Woman Right 70+ 12 NED13 HAKVOORT MARIJKE

Woman Right 70+ 13 FIN1 KAMILA ANNA

Woman Right 70+ 14 GER3 SCHMIDT CONSTANZE

Woman Right -70 1 SWI 7 JUILLERAT LAURE

Woman Right -70 2 POL 2 WAWRZYNIAK MARLENA

Woman Right -70 3 KAZ7 TRUBINA TATYANA

Woman Right -70 4 SWI 6 CATHERINE ZMOOS

Woman Right -70 5 KAZ1 YEKATERINA TARASSENKO

Woman Right -70 6 ENG 2 POOLE JOANNE

Woman Right -70 7 FIN1 KAMILA ANNA

Woman Right -70 8 NED13 HAKVOORT MARIJKE

Woman Right -70 9 NED27 OOST COBY

Woman left -70 1 POL 2 WAWRZYNIAK MARLENA

Woman left -70 2 SWI 7 JUILLERAT LAURE

Woman left -70 3 ENG 2 POOLE JOANNE

Woman left -70 4 FIN1 KAMILA ANNA

Woman left -70 5 KAZ1 YEKATERINA TARASSENKO

Woman left -70 6 NED27 OOST COBY

Woman left -70 7 NED13 HAKVOORT MARIJKE

Me & Pierre

 After "Slovakcola" :)

 Main Stage

 Me v Kazakhstan ( i won)

 70kg podium Left

 :)

 TOP ROLL!

 Oh yeah! and again baby!

 me vTanja! we killed each other deep hook match, lost on foul

 Lovely Rochefort Ceremony

Wonderful Belgium!

Tomorrow morning me and my boys (Kevin and Dad) will set of to dover, to catch a ferry to dunkirk (france) and then head into Belgium for my favourite competition of the year!!! ROCHEFORTE CHALLENGE!!! i love it soooo much and in juniors i never did loose held it for 4 years!!! but now im fucking shitty senior hahaha :) but im so dead excited to be there again it is the place that i first met and kissed my wonderful beautiful man! if i didnt go ther ei would never have the lif ei have now so i am very thankful for that town!!! i cant wait to eat spaghetti bologneise too, it is the best there, Italy you got nothing on this place!!! :)
we will leave tomorrow at about 9am and the ferry is at 12pm so good times i think
my arms are still not recovery my right is ok actually i will pull all weight classes with it, but my left is still VERY painful so i just pull my weight (1 class) with it and i know i will not do good at all left!!! but right could be different lets just hope i don't get all the pain back when i warm up!
so everyone have a great weekend
I WILL!!!
Love
Joanne
P.s i just booked flights to MADRID!!!! we go for ARMWARS in October!! woohoooooo!!!

Belgium 2010, lets hope i can have the same picture this year!

ARMWARS Results

DAY 1st - Right Hand

Meindert Nentjes / HOL vs Keith Taylor / GRB 6:0
Dan Thomas / GRB vs Tonni Christensen / DEN 1:5
Peter Henderson / GBR vs Hendrik Nentjes / HOL 6:0
Wictor Carlsson / SWE vs Phil Sampson / GBR 5:1
Emma Clark / USA vs Joanne Poole / GBR 0:6
Phillip Stahlhofen / GER vs Ian Stones / GBR 6:0
Jonas Hellstrom / SWE vs Marvin Palmer / GBR 3:3
Lasse Kickbusche / DEN vs Chris Stahlhoffen / GBR 5:1
Juha Salminen / FIN vs Frode Haugland / NOR 0:6
Chris Rimmer / GBR vs Andy Barker / GBR 0:4
Stephen Kirlew / GBR vs Kevin Harris / GBR 2:4
Niklas Nannestad / SWE vs Craig Sanders / GBR 3:3
Anders Karlsson / SWE vs Paul Waters / GBR 1:5
Kevin Berberich / GBR vs Steve Rogers / GBR 6:0

ARM WARS HEAVYWEIGHT BATTLEGROUND SEMI FINAL
1) John Milne / CAN vs Paul Maiden / GBR 2:4
2) Tommi Kokarre / SWE vs Ryan Clark / USA 5:1

John Milne / CAN vs Ryan Clark / USA 3:3

ARM WARS HEAVYWEIGHT BATTLEGROUND FINAL
Tommi Kokarre / SWE vs Paul Maiden / GBR 3:3 

ARM WARS WALTERWEIGHT WORLD TITLE MATCH
Freddy Gunnarsen / SWE vs Geoff Hale / USA 3:3

ARM WARS SUPER-HEAVYWEIGHT WORLD TITLE MATCH
Michael Todd / USA vs Devon Larratt / CAN 2:4


DAY 2nd - Left Hand 

Phillip Stahlhofen / GER vs Ted Willson / GBR 3:3 - RIGHT
Christophe Ladu / SWI vs Neil Pickup/ GBR 4:2 - RIGHT
Hendrik Nentjes / HOL vs Chris Rimmer / GBR 1:5
Wictor Carlsson / SWE vs Keith Taylor / GBR 6:0
Meindert Nentjes / HOL vs Juha Salminen / FIN 0:6
Niklas Nannestad / SWE vs Frode Haugland / NOR 3:3
Freddy Gunnarsen / SWE vs Chris Ham / GBR 2:4
Josef Lovei / FRA vs Terry Ackers / GBR 6:0
Phillip Stahlhofen / GBR vs Ian Stones / GBR 3:3
Niklas Nannestad / SWE vs Craig Sanders / GBR 3:3 
Anders Karlsson / SWE vs Geoff Hale / USA 0:6
Paul Waters / GBR vs Kevin Harris / GBR 2:4
Kevin Berberich / GBR vs Steve Rogers / GBR 4:2 
Mark Clay/ SCO vs Ted Willson / GBR 1:5
Lasse Kickbusche / DEN vs Chris Stahlhoffen / GBR 6:0

ARM WARS HEAVYWEIGHT BATTLEGROUND SEMI FINAL 
1) Jonas Hellstrom / SWE vs Gary Ricketts/ GBR 2:4
2) Tommi Kokarre / SWE vs Ryan Clark / USA 2:4

ARM WARS HEAVYWEIGHT BATTLEGROUND FINAL
Gary Ricketts/ GBR vs Ryan Clark / USA 0:6

ARM WARS SUPER-HEAVYWEIGHT WORLD TITLE MATCH
Christophe Ladu / SWI vs Devon Larratt / CAN 0:6 

ARMWARS Summary!

wow...... is one word
i am not in a great mood to write but its only fair to let you know if you don't already!
i won against Emma Clark 6-0 it was incredible, i was so thinking that i was going to loose, but i really impressed myself, I'm always so slow and i was worried about it, this time i was sooo fucking fast and explosive, straight into the hook where I wanted to be smashing to my pad, aaah man i felt incredible.
i love Emma so much she is awesome and I'm glad i got that match for my confidence and to begin training again!
we all had a awesome time
the big larrett v Todd match was sick! Devon won 4-2 just as i predicted! strange but i love them guys there really great, we stayed awake until 5:30am!!! last night drinking and talking
was a lovely weekend in the amazing trafford centre and i can be proud about myself that i didn't spend all our money shopping hehe i was good! all the matches were way to interesting anyway!!!
and the best part is in 3 days i leave to go to Belgium for my favourite competition ever! so im really excited just hope my aching muscles are going soon
pllleeeaseeee :)
thanks for the support everyone!
love
Joanne

ARMWARS!

so tonight i am leaving for ARMWARS!! in Manchester it is about a 3/4 Hour drive for us soooo not to bad like the USA guys but still fucking boring! haha but it will be so worth it!!
i have never had such a feeling before i compete i REALLY want it and i love the feeling, i have a hell of a lot of nerves in fact suffering with stomach aches because i have so much but that is quite normal for me i like if i didn't have this feeling i would be worried!!
as you know i will face Emma Clark USA/SWEDEN - it will probably be one of my toughest matches ever, and I'm excited to see where i am at the moment, everybody said how much stronger i have become but you can never tell your self really well i cant! i have such a energy and pump i walk around my house pretending to armwrestling HAHAHAHAHA yes the secret i am a bit of a freak, I'm sure all the other people do it too hahahaha :)
but i have cleaned the house cooked mine and Kevin's lunch, showered, packed my luggage (kinda) 4 bags are enough for one weekend i think hahaha :)
i am dead EXCITED! to see everyone and have fun and PULL!!!
wish me luck!
Love Joanne

Me & Emma Clark, at Majorca ARMWARS, i'm sure we wont be looking so happy and relaxed in the next photos taken of us hehe :)