Olympic Weightlifting

MRI Results = SLAP Tear (Shoulder Labrum)

3 October 2011
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This morning I had a Consultant’s appointment to get the result of my MRI and Arthrogram for my shoulder injury. Previously I’d been diagnosed with a PASTA lesion, which is a tear of the supraspinatus rotator cuff tendon, and the MRI was to look for a SLAP tear as well, which is where the cartilage [...]

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CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting Cert Review

4 July 2011
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Given my rotator cuff tear of the supraspinatus I very nearly cancelled going on this weekend’s CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting certification. Boy am I glad I didn’t! I of course had heard that Coach Mike Burgener was, apart from being quite a character, a great Olympic weight lifting coach, but that doesn’t do the man justice. [...]

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Rotator Cuff Tear from Butterfly Pullups

22 June 2011

For no good reason, other than to learn a new skill, I made learning to do butterfly pullups one of my goals for 2011. If you’re not sure what I mean, these are butterfly pull ups (or sometimes called cyclic pullups, or butterfly kips): WPvideo 1.10 So when an open skill session came up at [...]

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2010 Achievements

25 January 2011

In the new year, it’s never a bad thing I think to look back at what you’ve achieved last year to objectively decide if you think it’s been a good year or not. It’s something I try to do every year, and I did last year. To be honest I felt last year was pretty [...]

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Movemeber – It’s for Charity Man!

29 October 2010

This morning’s Crossfit workout was rough: Murph. Which is: 1 Mile run 100 Pull ups 200 Push ups 300 Squats 1 Mile run And if that’s not bad enough, it’s all done with a 10kg weight vest! At least you can partition the gymnastic moves as you see fit. Most people do Cindy rounds: 5, [...]

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Is it possible to gain 34lbs of muscle in 4 weeks?

5 September 2010

Timothy Ferriss certainly seems to think so, in fact he claims to have done it: If you’re not aware, Tim Ferris is author of the best selling book: the “Four Hour Work Week” (click here for the US version) which I have just finished reading and can say is a very inspirational book. I may [...]

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BWLA Assistant Club Coaches’ Course Review

5 July 2010

I completed the British Weight Lifting Association’s (BWLA) Assistant Club Coaches’ Course this weekend, and thought it would be nice to write up a few things about it. It was a 2 day course, all day Saturday and Sunday, and teaches you how to coach the basic Olympic Weightlifting lifts, specifically the Snatch, Clean and [...]

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BWLA Olympic Weightlifting Coaches Course

3 July 2010

I’m looking forward this weekend to attending the British Weight Lifting Association Assistant Club Coaches Olympic weightlifting course, which is being hosted by Crossfit Manchester. Whilst I’m not sure I have any specific ambitions to become an Olympic weightlifting coach, it’s certainly a skill that’s worth having, and as the course is happening on my [...]

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Colin McNulty at the British Masters – Weightlifting Video

3 April 2010

Here’s the video I took at the British Masters last week: WPvideo 1.10 Sadly I only got the first half as the video camera died half way through, grrrr.

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British Masters Weightlifting Champion – Oooh that sounds good!

30 March 2010

Thanks for all the messages of support, I can confirm that I did win my category at the 2010 BWLA British Masters Olympic Weightlifting championship finals this weekend. I was expecting to be lifting against Anthony (Tony) Down, from the Empire Club in Bristol, but it turned out that he came in overweight for the [...]

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