Welcome to August! For this month we chose Olympic Weightlifting for our monthly challenge. This is a big one: commitment to improving either one or more of your Olympic lifts takes time, patience, and dedication. Professional lifters spend their entire lives working to perfect just two lifts: the clean and jerk and the snatch.
This month you can choose to focus on both Olympic lifts or choose one. Find a lifting partner, choose a weekly lifting day and time, record some of your lifts, and dedicate yourself to the process rather than worrying about your numbers. Oly lifting can be maddening in the same way that gymnastics can: lots of drills, practice, and accessory work sometimes only yield small results. Conversely, sometimes the tiniest changes to your form and technique yield big improvements.
Feel free to go it on your own or we invite you to speak with one of our coaches for advice on a lifting program. Improving your Olympic lifts is not just attempting a one-rep max every week; instead there are drills, programs, complexes, and accessory work that will help you become both stronger and more technically skilled.
After all, Olympic lifting is just physics. It is using the angles and levers of the human body (plus torque) to your advantage. We can watch the professionals and see this at play. Somehow, watching a small person lift big weight seems like it just doesn’t make sense; how does a person that size lift that much weight? The answer (as for most things) is practice and patience to achieve consistency and precision. Check out the videos below for some August inspiration.
Keep in mind… this is the 58kg weight class, meaning these lifters weigh less than 130 pounds.
Women’s Olympic Record 2018
The men’s Olympic record in 2017 in just his second attempt he snatches 400 pounds.
Men’s Olympic Record 2017
IMPORTANT SCHEDULE NOTICES:
STRONGTOWN WILL BE CLOSED ON SATURDAY 8/3 & SUNDAY 8/4
TOTAL CHECK-INS: JULY 2019
1,352 (+88)
STRONGTOWN'S FINEST - JULY 2019
(AWESOME PERSON - AMAZING CLASS TOTAL)
HOLLY - 28
SHADY - 27
HEIDI - 24
JUSTIN - 24
NICK - 23
BARRY - 22
MIKEY - 20
FUNK - 20
JENN - 20
COLIN - 19
KAT - 19
SCOTT C. - 19
CARL - 19
SABRINA - 19
TIAH - 18
DANIELLE - 18
PAULA - 18
DAN - 17
TOON - 17
PAUL - 17
DANI - 17
MARJORIE - 17
DEB - 17
STACY - 17
HAYLEY - 17
RACHEL K. - 16
KATE - 16
GAIL - 16
IAN - 16
KELLY - 16
TAMMY - 16
BIG MIKE - 16
JULY’S 15 CLUB
YAMIN, RYAN B., SID, GERELU
WORKOUT OF THE DAY
For Time:
Run 800m
50 Box Jumps (24/20")
Run 800m
50 Back Squats (115/75 lbs)
Run 800m
Score = Total Time
Rx1= 95/65
Rx3= 135/95 lbs
Back Squats from ground
Recovery:
Foam Roll - Each Leg x2
30” Glute
30” Hamstring
30” Quad
30” IT Band
Peter.
Sabrina.
8/1/19
