Mark Rippetoe visited Asheville Strength and Conditioning again yesterday. We were fortunate to have Rip do a seminar on the squat and the press. As usual, Rip’s coaching was excellent, and his wit and humor were unmatched. Thanks for everything, Rip! We appreciate your experience and unique skills.

Big, bigger, biggest!

Somebody get me a stool!

On Sunday, February 5th, Caleb will be at the gym for an Olympic weightlifting seminar. Come learn how to snatch and clean and jerk with the best! The seminar will be from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm, and it is $75.00. Please call Tamara to register. Don’t miss this opportunity to improve your technique.

Tayler Harris competed at the Muscle Driver Grand Prix in Charlotte on November 5, finishing with a 133 total. She narrowly missed an amazing 84 kg clean and jerk when she lost it trying to recover. On November 19, Amy Hurlston and Tara Garrett competed at the Ultimate CrossFit Open. It was Amy’s first meet, and she hit a 32 kg snatch and a 41 kg clean and jerk. Tara went 6 for 6 and had meet PRs for her snatch, clean and jerk, and total! We will have some videos up on the website soon.

The gym will be closed for Thanksgiving on Thursday, November 24, Friday, November 25, and Saturday, November 26. We will have Sunday hours on November 27 from 10:00 am – noon. If you have questions, please email Tamara.

 

Tamara front squatting at WFAC

Tamara is back in Asheville after spending four days at the Wichita Falls Athletic Club for the Weightlifting Performance Seminar with Mark Rippetoe and Jim Moser. There was a lot of lifting, a good deal of laughing, and many PRs were set. At the seminar, Jim talked about goal setting and what it takes to achieve your goals. If you want to be a world champion, then you need to know how much you must lift to achieve that goal. If the world record snatch is 200 kg, and you are snatching 150 kg, do the math. If you only add one kilo to your snatch every 6 months, then you are not going to be a world champion.

No one gets to be world champion without doing the work. If you’re training two days a week, know that someone else is training six days a week. Dream big, but don’t fool yourself. World championships don’t happen by accident.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gehDUyUuJFw

If you’re not squatting every week, you’re missing the boat. You’re also at risk of getting beaten by a six year old. Get under the bar.

Asheville Strength and Conditioning would like to thank Rip for coming to hang out with us for the past few days!

If you don’t know Rip, you should. Go to http://startingstrength.com/ and read and watch. You’ll be a better lifter if you do.

If you don’t get the joke, then like us on Facebook already.

Tamara is back from competing at the Pan American Masters, which was her first international meet. There were 32 women from four countries competing in Savannah at the Anderson-Cohen Weightlifting Center. Although she didn’t set a PR for either lift, Tamara did open with a clean and jerk that was 12 kgs higher than her opening jerk at National Masters earlier this year. And, she did get to come home with another gold medal.

We love jerk boxes. You can use them to do really amazing stuff like this: Donny Shankle Jerks 237 kg

Tamara is back from School Age Nationals, which were held in Flowery Branch, Georgia over the weekend. What an awesome display of strength by children and teens! If you’ve never been to a weightlifting meet, you need to go to one. Better yet, you need to compete at one! Asheville Strength and Conditioning is home to the Asheville Barbell Club, and we will have lifters competing at a meet in July as well as at the North Carolina Weightlifting Championships in Winston-Salem in September. Starting July 11, the Asheville Barbell Club will be training two to three times a week to prepare lifters for these meets. Please email Tamara for more information.

In other news, Tamara was interviewed by Stephanie Vincent of Radical Hateloss, and you can see the interview here: http://www.radicalhateloss.com/2011/06/radical-woman-q-with-tamara-cohen.html.

The gym is open for training on a limited schedule until July 11. Please email Tamara if you would like to stop by or get more information about membership.