This past Saturday, Woodstock Athletics Barbell Club put on its first mock weightlifting/powerlifting meet. And then we had an epic party. As we do.
To be clear, this was only a “mock” meet because we aren’t sanctioned (yet) by any official organizations, but the weights our athletes lifted were very real.
First of all, as coaches, we could not be more proud of all the hard work the competitors put in. They trained specifically for this day, and then stepped onto the competition stage in front of the whole community.
Some highlights:
✨Anna and Maddie kicking it off and impressing the crowd with their technique and grace under pressure.
✨Tom F-S *easily* cleaning 155 and then just barely missing the PR jerk.
✨Joel crushing his snatch and clean & jerk and then deciding he was going to do powerlifting too because “he took a lot of caffeine.” 😂
✨Diego and Marisol signing up at the last minute and killing it!
✨Melissa benching 105 and deadlifting 220 like they were her openers. Big things coming for this lady this year…
✨Marina hitting a PR back squat at 220 and just slaying in general.
✨Alex hitting PR’s on EVERYTHING with a 350 squat, 195 bench, and 365 deadlift. This guy has been working really hard and it paid off!
✨Frack coming out of retirement to show the kids how to bench. He hit 325 like it was nothing. (I saw him bench 375 last week.)
✨Kane making a huge jump to 315 for a PR attempt on bench. It’ll be there soon.
✨Rob coming in and finally getting that 405 deadlift he’s been working for.
✨Joe easily squatting 435 and deadlifting 475. Savage.
✨Nguyen being an absolute BOSS at the omelette station.
Finally, a HUGE thanks to Hillary and Dawn for being expert bar loaders and just amazing people in general. And Sean even came home to see us and help out. And thanks to Nic for taking these awesome photos. Here’s a link to the photo album so you can check them all out!
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