{"id":237,"date":"2008-10-06T19:54:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T19:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2008-10-14T11:43:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T11:43:55","slug":"olympic-weightlifting-a-weekend-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/06\/olympic-weightlifting-a-weekend-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Weightlifting, a Weekend Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in June I entered my first local club Olympic Weightlifting mini-competition at West Wythenshawe, Manchester<\/a>.\u00a0 This weekend we did it again.\u00a0 It’s not really a competition, as there’s such a broad range of ages and weights that it’s unlikely you’d find anyone in the same category. So really it’s just for fun and practice in a competition setting.\u00a0 It’s surprising how a roomful of people all staring at you, can put some people off.<\/p>\n

Last time I lifted 45, 50 and 55 in the Snatch and 70, 75 and 80 in the Clean and Jerk<\/strong> (see my video on YouTube<\/a>) so I was hoping to do better this time.\u00a0 However I’ve been changing my Snatch technique, making a major change only last week, so the possibility for disaster was high.\u00a0 Fortunately it went pretty well, I got 50, 55 and 60kg for the snatch<\/strong>, an improvement of 5kg which was nice.\u00a0 Here’s a picture of me just steadying the 60kg snatch at the top, I’m concentrating hard!<\/p>\n

\"Colin

Colin McNulty Olympic Weightlifting Snatch 60kg<\/p><\/div>\n

On the Clean and Jerk we were all surprised by the timing and so were behind on the warm up lifts.\u00a0 I started on 75 but had not even lifted that in the warm up!\u00a0 The 75 was easy however so I jumped to 85 and then 87kg<\/strong>.\u00a0 A nice 7kg improvement on last time.\u00a0 Here’s the top of the clean with Judge Dredd chin going on:<\/p>\n

\"Colin

Colin McNulty Olympic Weightlifting Clean and Jerk 87kg<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ll sort out a video of the day next week as the copy I’ve got with me is too poor quality.\u00a0 Thanks go out again to Les at West Wythenshawe Weight Lifting club for organising it, and the great bunch of lads he has there.\u00a0 Also to the BWLA guys who came to officiate and ref.\u00a0 This was my first lift as a registered British Weight Lifting Association<\/strong> member.<\/p>\n

Oh, do you like my spangly new weightlifting suit?\u00a0 Hmmm lycra!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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