Olympic Weightlifting

Butterfly Pullup Shoulder Injury

5 April 2011

I hate being injured. HATE IT I tell you! It’s so damn annoying not to be able to workout effectively or do the things I want. Having been given a healthy strong body again, it’s a pain in the butt not to be able to use it. I had to drop out of the CrossFit [...]

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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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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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British Master Buildup Over

24 March 2010

Well the British Masters Championships are this weekend, and if I’m not ready now, I’ll never be. Which is to say, I’m not ready now! I hate preparing for competitions because I’m *never* ready! This week’s lifting went ok, but could have been better. The highlights are, on Tuesday I managed 3 out of 6 [...]

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Build up to the British Masters Olympic Weightlifting Competition – 3 weeks to go

10 March 2010

Well Tuesday didn’t go at all well! Snatch practice was meant to be a simple matter of getting confident with my opening lifts, but it couldn’t have gone much worse. I dropped 3 out of 6 attempts at 65kg and dropped 2 out of 3 attempts at 70kg. Honestly, I should be getting every lift [...]

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Build up to the British Masters Olympic Weightlifting Competition – 4 weeks to go

4 March 2010

I’ve started seriously thinking about the BWLA British Masters Olympic Weightlifting Competition at Lilleshall (I came 2nd last year) at the end of March and how I’m going to prepare for it. For reasons I won’t bore you with, I’ve not done as much lifting as I should have done in preparation for this competition. [...]

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This Weekend’s Weightlifting Shambles

24 November 2009

It’s hard to start this post… without resorting to impolite expletives! This weekend’s weightlifting competition went about as wrong as it could have done, short of bombing (failing to get any lifts). I could wax lyrical about my failures, but can’t quite face it to be honest. It was a shambles that’s soonest forgotten. The [...]

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It’s Competition Day!

20 November 2009

The day I’ve been waiting 2 months for has finally arrived – the Northern Open Olympic Weightlifting competition, held in Mytholmrod, West Yorkshire (England that is). First the important stuff: I made the weight. For the last 5 days I’ve been at or under my target weight, which is the upper limit of the 77kg [...]

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Olympic Weightlifting Update – How has 2 months of concentrated effort worked out?

14 November 2009

With a few weeks to go before the competition, it was time to focus on some full Olympic lifts and see how the last 2 months of focus on weightlifting. 2 weeks ago I decided to see if I could pull off any new personal best lifts. To do this, I needed to get up [...]

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17 days to the Weightlifting Comp

4 November 2009

I didn’t get round to posting what I did last week, which was week 7 of the program. Because of holiday I only managed to get to the gym twice, and was recovering from the back niggle from the previous week, so took it easier that I perhaps should: Day 1 Snatch – singles up [...]

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