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I’ve Cancelled My Shoulder Op

5 December 2011
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If you’re a regular to my blog (there are several thousand of you) you will have seen me sporadically post about my shoulder injury. I won’t bore you with the sordid details again, as I’ve already done into details about my SLAP tear, MRI + Arthrogram scan, and how I did it doing CrossFit’s butterfly [...]

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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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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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Why Crossfit Coaching Sessions are Priceless

20 March 2010

As many people have noted from my earlier post, snatch practice for the British Masters has not been going well. Dropping six 70kg (154lb) snatches in a row, 2 weeks before competition day, is never a good sign. So this weekend, with 2 sessions back at Crossfit Manchester, I desperately needed the experienced eye of [...]

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Build up to the British Masters Olympic Weightlifting Competition – 2 weeks to go

18 March 2010

I’m pleased to report that my hamstring tweak had mostly cleared itself up by Tuesday, so I was able to train as I’d intended. There was still a little soreness there, but 98% there. However, that didn’t prevent the disaster that was Tuesday’s snatches! Tuesday followed my normal routine of snatches for 45ish mins then [...]

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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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