#Teamawesome Powerlifting Competition 30/12/11

On the 30/12/2011 the Personal Trainers (and some clients) of Epsom’s premier Personal Training centre will go head to head in a friendly powerlifting competition, why? To help keep us all motivated, to test the fruits of our labour and more importantly to share varied training protocols that each of us will be undertaking.

The talk and banter has already begun on Twitter under the hash tag of #TeamAwesome which you are more than welcome to follow or join in with.

For those that are unfamiliar with the events of Powerlifiting here is a brief overview;

They are the three lifts we will be performing on the day; Squat, Bench press and the Deadlift;All three have a great history and world records that are mind boggling.

RULES;

Apologies to the purists out there but our rules are somewhat more slack than those of an official meet;

Squat – the crease in the hips must be in line with or below the height of the to top of lifters knee. Each lifter will have the rack safety bars set to height and the bar must touch them for a clean lift.

Bench – the bar must touch the chest but no pause is required, touch and go is fine. Buttocks to stay on bench and bar to be fully locked out before re racking.

Deadlift – is there a way to cheat on the deadlift…bar simply leaves floor and must be pulled to a standing position without the use of wraps. Belts are fine (we don’t want anyone crying about a bad back). You can lift rounded, drag it up your thighs whatever works for you.

You can have as many attempts at the lifts as you wish.

Chalk allowed. Assisted lifts do not count.

There will be overall winners for each lift and and overall winner for biggest combined lift totals along with a best power to weight ratio lifter.

Each of the competitors that have a twitter account will be updating training and diet info through the previously mentioned #teamawesome and at the individual twitter pages. So far we have myself; @RHamWilliams  @TeamJDPT @RBPTSpecialists @SalusFitness  so follow each of us and see what you can pick up from the tips and information you read  (If you are part of the team already and I haven’t mentioned your twitter tag please let me know).

Videos of the event will also be posted along with some training tips we may have used.

We have not got any female trainers wanting to join in as of yet but they are welcome and encouraged for women can benefit far more from lifting weights than men in this day and age, ladies…strong is sexy!

EDIT;

After discussion it has been decided that no assistance whatsoever should be allowed to keep it as raw as possible, this I like.

So no belts,straps or chalk. Street Strength is perhaps an apt name for it. Just you and your clothes versus gravity and slag.