Independence Day 2010

Eastside Strength & Conditioning will be CLOSED for the Independence Day holiday on Monday, July 5th. We're on regular schedule before and after, including Saturday (10am class!).

Oh, and speaking of singlets ;-) , several of our Fulcrum lifters will be participating in the Sandpoint Gym Summer Classic olympic weightlifting meet in Seattle's Magnuson Park this Saturday, July 3, which starts at 11:00 am. Spectators most welcome. We hope to see some of you there.

Healing

Mel squatting during her recovery from an on-the-job shoulder injury and surgery. Smart training can not only assist the recovery process but also allow continued progress, potentially leaving us stronger than we were before the injury occurred.

Going up

The finish

Ken finishing the pull of a clean.

2010 Pacific NW Weightlifting Championships

2010 Fulcrum Barbell Club

Our Fulcrum Barbell Club had a successful first-time team meet at Thrush Sports this last weekend. A big thank you to the Calpian Weightlifting Club, which always puts on a well-run meet. We had a great support from our community. (Thank you, everyone!) Congratulations to the lifters for training hard and achieving personal bests in competition.

Lifter highlights:

• Yesh snatched 47 and clean and jerked 61 for a 108-kg total, and 1st place in the 62  kilo open weight class.
• Stef snatched 44 and clean and jerked 60 for a 104-kg total, and 2nd place in the 63 kilo open weight class
• Rosanna snatched 44 and clean and jerked 57 for a 101-kg total, and 3rd place in the 63 kilo open weight class.
• Chanel snatched 46 and clean and jerked 54 for a 100-kg total, and 3rd place in the 69 kilo open weight class.
• Melissa snatched 51 and clean and jerked 60 for a 111-kg total, and 1st place in the 75+ kilo open weight class.
• Aaron snatched (split style) 77 and clean and jerked 96 for a 173-kg total. This was Aaron's first meet, in which he PR'd big! Aaron competed in the 85 kilo open weight class.
• Matt snatched 67 and clean and jerked 90 for a 157-kg total. This was Matt's first meet, he competed in the 105 kilo open weight class.
• Billy snatched 96 and clean and jerked 128 for a 224-kg total, and 3rd place in the 105+ kilo open weight class.

Photos from the event can be found on the Fulcrum Barbell Club Facebook page. Another write-up from the Calpian club can be found here.

No class this Saturday 4/17/10

The 2010 Pacific NW Weightlifting Championships will take place this Saturday, April 17, 2010, at Thrush Sports Performance Center in Sumner. Our gym will be CLOSED (no 10:00am class) on Saturday so we can attend the meet with our weightlifters.

We have about eight men and women from Eastside competing in this event as part of our new USAW team, Fulcrum Barbell Club.  Come on down and see your fellow Eastsiders join all kinds of other lifters (teens to seniors, newbies to old hands) from the Northwest in putting forth their best efforts at the snatch and the clean and jerk.

Session #1     56 – 77kg Men                Weigh-In @ 9:00 am     Competition @ 11:00 am

Session #2     All Women                       Weigh-In @ 11:30 am   Competition @ 1:30 pm

Session #3     85 - +105kg Men            Weigh-In @ 2:00 pm     Competition @ 4:00 pm

A few years later

Heaton had a goal to pull 400 pounds before he turned 50. He succeeded pulling 182 kilos (400.4 pounds) .

Three years later, and 20 pounds lighter, he pulls 402.6 pounds (183 kilos). Strong work on your birthday ritual Heaton!

Rack pull

The rack pull is a partial deadlift, which places emphasis on hip extension.