Tag Archives: clean

Fun All Around!! Black Box FW Wins the Individual Titles, PDX Wins the Team Title!

OK, so I posted yesterday our own teams results (here).  Above are the results form Black Box FW.  They had some HUGE lifts that resulted in them winning the individual titles.  Congratulations Summer and JB!!!  Great stuff.  Our own Beth’s 77 put her in second place, and our dude Arron’s 162 puts him in Third. … Continue Reading

Our Results from Yesterdays Clean Contest With Black Box FW

We had 8 lifters (1 female, 7 males) compete against our friends from Fort Worth, Texas at Black Box FW.  A number of PR’s were set (Arron, Peter, and Ryland), and nearly everyone else matched their previous PR’s or came damned close.  It was great fun!!! For Sinclair calculating I used the one here on… Continue Reading

Last 2 Weeks Before April 16th Contest

These last 2 weeks are all about recovery.  We killed ourselves during the previous two weeks, so now it’s time pull back.  That doesn’t mean that we don’t lift heavy, but it does mean that the volume is drastically reduced, and we squat FAR less often.  We’ve also dropped down from 12 workouts a week… Continue Reading

Thursday Evening Workout

Our Thursday evening workout consisted of what they call in the coaching profession, "the same old shite". Lot’s of snatches, cleans, Brandon working on squat jerk depth, and squats. This vids a bit misleading. Beth appears here to have done her power clean and jerk BEFORE she squatted. In fact, it was the opposite. She… Continue Reading

Sept. 18th Heavy Athletics Olympic Weightlifting Contest Highlights

We had a great time down in Creswell, for the 2010 Heavy Athletics competition.  Here’s a video of highlights.   Also, you don’t want to miss Beth’s badass miss.  She cleans it, her hand pops out, and she re-racks it!!  Wow …

Melanie Roach Bounces That Thang!

Watch how Melanie Roach VERY quickly dives under the bar in her clean, then appears stuck. But, she isn’t!! She uses the bounce (a lot of bounces) to get out of the hole and makes a clean lift.

Portland Olympic Weightlifting: The State of the Game

I just ran across a page on a site (from 2002) about the state of Olympic Weightlifting in Portland, Oregon (here). It still rings true in most respects, but there is hope. Here’s an excerpt Poster Child–Portland, OR Training Environment: In Portland, OR and surrounding areas we used to have some lip service support for… Continue Reading