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Kristin Newman has been an athlete pretty much her whole life. A ballet dancer to start, then a national level judo wrestler, a momentary endurance runner, and now a powerlifting-Olympic weightlifting-crossfit butt-kicking badass.

Through all her years of athleticism, Kristin’s shoulders took a beating to a point where she had to get double shoulder surgery this past year to restore the joints to normal function.

FuBarbell competed today at Max’s Gym Open in Oakland, CA.

Everyone had a fantastic showing with special congratulations going out to:

Shanna Guzman 1st place finish in 58kg weight class

Hannah Kang 3rd place finish in 63kg weight class

Brandon Tom 3rd place finish in 77kg weight class

Kristin Newman 3rd place finish in 75kg+ weight class

And honorary FuBarbell member for the day, Sarah Hopping, winning 1st place in 75kg+ weight class

Special thanks to Coach Pat (@paddygriffin) for his helping hand in handling the team!

FuBarbell Saturday sesh Part 2.

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FuBarbell Saturday sesh Part 1.

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Zach Rynders (@zrynders) sequence of a 93kg/205lbs snatch.

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You’re in. You’ve decided that maybe every competitive weightlifter out there might be onto something with this whole shoe thing and now you’re on the market for a pair of your own. Which brand do you buy? What size? Geez, most importantly, which color?! With so many options available these days, shopping for your first pair of weightlifting shoes can be daunting at best. Here are a few quick tips when researching for your first pair:

In weightlifting, there will probably be more bad days than good days. But man, when that good day comes, you remember why it was worth the wait.

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Squatting is a metric used by weightlifters to gauge lifting potential. Anytime the leg strength goes up, usually the snatch/clean&jerk isn’t too far behind before starting to make a rise.

But since this game is weightlifting and not powerlifting, to focus too much attention on increasing squatting potential could also pull down the snatch/clean&jerk numbers.

Mason Tuller age 10. Mason’s been practicing the Olympic lifts on a weekly basis with me since he was 8. Why 8? Well, that was about the time his dad came to me and we started exploring the idea of how we could help Mason develop some movement patterns that he can carry over to his other sporting endeavors.

The base of Mason’s program in the beginning looked something like this:

General development:

1x per week -

CrossFit

Mobility

Another weekend, another city! Hung out today at Kaizen CrossFit with a fun and welcoming community. Thanks to all the folks that came out today to listen to me babble about weightlifting. It’s always a privilege to be able to share what I know.

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