Chris is improving his technique on the snatch

Nice work, Laura!

keep practicing!

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Snatch grip rack pulls & ......

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Good work on cleans by Trent

new Oly. lifters

Sharon is 65 years young! She'll give youngter folks a run for their money any day!

AJ is also doing great! For a guy with two jobs and a new-born at home, he still is one of our most consistent athletes in his training.
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Have you missed your Oly. practice?

These guys haven't!

Beginning to work on squat cleans, too

end of week two

Good progress is being made by these new lifters!

Mike's 2nd Oly. workout

Practicing the front squat

Hit the front squats today,
practicing going deep!



230lb

Everyone needs to practice the fundamentals

Practicing with light weight to improve technique:
If you cannot complete the lift with good technique, the weight is too heavy!
Decide early if you'd rather have a big ego or big lifts!

Basics, basics, & more basics

Scarecrow Snatch: from Greg Everett's book on Olympic Weightlifting
Mike's first day

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End of the first week of training

2 new training sessions added

Due to the popularity of this type of training we have added 2 more training sessions so people with differing work schedules can get there.
The schedule is posted on the right side of the blog & you'll see that Mon. & Wed. 10:00-11:00 am is included.
Come and join us!

First workout for Oly. club

These guys are new at Olympic Weightlifting, but are eager to learn.
With consistent hard work they will excel!!

Nothing but the bar



Light bar with 10lb plates

Training schedule update

This is our temporary training schedule, and it overrides any other training already scheduled for these times:

Tues. 6:00-7:00 PM

Wed. 10:00-11:00 AM

Thurs. 3:00-4:00 PM

Sat. 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

This schedule will be in effect until further notice.

Club members will need to pick 3 of these sessions to attend per week.

Welcome

Team CrossFit Gulf Coast will be a part of the larger, national team: Team CrossFit
I earned my USAW Olympic Weightlifting Club Coach Certification in 2005, under the expert instruction of Rich Lansky.
Coach Lansky is a good friend of Coach Mike Burgener who heads up Team CrossFit.
Olympic Weightlifting can be a very rewarding sport for those who have the discipline to pursue it.
We will have a lot of fun and do a lot of very hard work here.
Olympic Weightlifting is extremely "technique-intensive"; that means we will stress strong basics. No one will work with heavy weight until they've proven their technique is correct!
Big egos & big mouths won't be tolerated in this club.
So if you're still up for this challenge, come in and let's get to work.

First Oly Club meeting/workout Wed. 10:00am

On Feb. 18 we will get together for the first meeting/workout of our new Olympic Weightlifting Club, which of course, is part of Team CrossFit.
We will also have a Saturday workout, and I will post the time on this blog as soon as I have it confirmed.
Since this will be a performance-based club, it means we expect people to be in regular & consistent training at our gym.
That should be a "given".
There will be two things everyone will need for training:
1) weightlifting shoes
2) training log/notebook