Have you missed your Oly. practice?

These guys haven't!

Front squat workout

The front squat is a vital link in developing Olympic Weghtlifting skills. It develops a solid, stable base to support your lifts. Today was a good day, set a new PR of 257LBS, had to micro-load to break through the plateau.

Keep working the basics

Clean & Jerk practice using light weights

Mike's 2nd Oly. workout

End of the first week of training

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

First two members of our new OLy. lifting club

Congratulations to Mike & Trent for being the first to join our newly formed Olympic
Weightlifting Club!
We will be part of the national team headed by legendary Olympic Weightlifting Coach, Mike Burgener.
I first trained with Coach B in 2005 my CrossFit Certification.
Members of our gym can join this team for free, others who want to join will train at our gym for $50.00 plus tax per person/month (this doesn't include other types of training, just Olympic Weightlifting).
Minimum age is 18 years old, hwever we will accept qualified athletes down to age 15 with a parent or guardian accompanying them at EVERY training session.
People not training consistently will be dropped from the program & no discipline problems will be tolerated. NONE!
We will compete under USAW rules.

Got this from Coach Burgener

Just found this mesage from Coach Mie Burgener:



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------i am i am wanting to start a "team CrossFit" olympic weightlifting team. i would get the team registered with usaw. athletes would sign up with team CrossFit....the goal is to get a team competitive at the national level with weightlifting. as we compete on the local and regional area we would represent our affiliate. i would like to get your thoughts. btw, coach glassman and lauren are very supportive. coach b

BTW post here as well as contact me at: mikeburgener@mac.com
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We here at CrossFit Gulf Coast will be part of this team.
If you are interested in learning more about this let me know!