Tuesday, November 23, 2010

New Lifting Hours effective: NOW!

Well, the good news is that we are in the same general location. the bad news is that we have moved to a much smaller location and must suffer with shifted hours. Regular hours will be Monday through Thursday 6:30 until 8:30 ish. Saturday will be a little later than usual; starting around 10. NOW! If you need to come in a bit earlier, you can do so. That is no problem. As of right now, our available space has been decimated. We have less than half the space of before.
So, coming earlier in the evening during the week is OK though the kids, Boot Camps, and other items trump us. For sure, every night of the week, we will have the place to ourselves after 7 pm.
Just to emphasize, these new hours will begin on November 24. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

PR Week

Steve hits a PR in the clean and, unfortunately, not the jerk. Megan hit a PR then broke this PR on her second lift. This she did in the CJ. She said 18 months ago she was barely deadlifting for 1 what she did a CJ for the other day. Now that is progress.

Contest Simplified

After the exceedingly complicated contest of last Saturday, much easier this Saturday. Lift more or do more or go faster.
4 events: Press from racks, Bar lowering, Pullups, Strongman medley.

Press from racks had Steve and Luke in 1 & 2 after a nice, if short, battle.
Lowering the bar (loaded bar from overhead is lowered until arms are roughly parallel with ground then held for a pause) had Garrett and Megan first to drop off. Steve hung around until the end again.

Pullups should equalize the field. Luke was done early and Ron hung around for a quick, winning 14. He appeared to have a few more in the tank.

After 3 events, the standings were: Steve (33), Ron (29), Garrett (23), Luke (22), and Megan (12).

The medley was brutal. Megan was on wobbly legs after squatting near her maximum for 3 sets. The medley consisted of jumps, ball toss, running, sled pushing/pulling. Luke was fastest, Ron was second, Steve averaged to 3rd, Garrett, Megan, Maggey, and Therese rounded out the rest.

Final standings were: Steve, Ron, Luke, Garrett, Megan.

Great work. No contest next Saturday as the meet will be the contest.