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Looks like you’ll be doing your nationals on my birthday =)

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Tracey owen and rylee and I are really excited for you. we told owen that you won for lifting heavy weights and he went in to his slow motion lifting routine like the 649 commercial with the wrestlers.

quote owen “heavy”

good luck with the training fo nationals.

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Congrats!

as for the structure of O-lifting competitions, there is a technical meeting the night before where it is declared what weight you are going to lift at. the morning of your competition, you then weigh in 2 hrs before your scheduled start time. if you are within your weight class you compete, if not you have an hour to either bring your weight up or down to make your weight class. So since It was declared at the technical meeting last night that I was representing BC in the 58kg weight class I needed to weigh between 53.1kg to 58.0kg.

Once the competition starts, Snatch is the first lift. The order of the lifters is determined by the starting weights, so I did not even start warming up until the 3rd lifter attempted there first lift because my first lift was the 17th lift of the session. You have 3 attempts at the snatch. If you miss the first attempt you have a choice to either re-due the weight or increase it, but you can never go down in weight. If there is no one after you, you have a mimimum of 2 minutes between attempts, however if there are other lifters doing weights inbetween your attempts, then you have 1 minute from the time the bar is re-set.

Once everyone is done Snatches, there is a 10 minute intermission and then the same process happens for clean and jerks.