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G R G Q I K H I G H P O I N T A U
T S U S P E N S I O N L F V H P K
Diary of a Weightlifter, A A M A K I T A D S Q J I A U T S

D G S T E W A R T N S L M P M R S
Forgetting and Remembering N A G B R A B X D G L A E W F I P

O M N V U U D U J I Y T V H U P O
By Thorin Gault Surprisingly, there are times
when it feels like I have never T Y N A Q D N U P S S U I O E L O
performed these movements S I R C R G S O B E A L Z N L E H
before. My friend, Ken Miller, I T R O E T T C S D D E B D I R W
and I have a running joke when P H O Y T O S S R E E N B A N K Y
we see each other at a competition
D Y O H E C O A G E A R B R J Y D
and ask how the other is doing,
the response is often, ‘we will see E U Q T S R A A P L E O U O E E D
if I can remember how to snatch.’ G K T W C E N F J Y A K R H C S C
While this is quite frustrating R N Q O T A L K O O A C C T T A T
after more than ten years of O U T B K M M O I R L C S O I C W
training, I have also had the
F O T O D D K S H T W H E D O V S
reverse happen to me recently. I
M J Y S K C A R T W V O N R N F Y
REMEMBERED to do something
that, for whatever reason, I had ACER HOTCAMS STEWART
just forgotten to do. I realized that BRAB KTM SUSPENSION
I wasn’t consciously taking a big BUDSCREEK MAKITA THOR
breath and bracing my midsection CASE MOTOCROSS TRACK
before I pulled the bar off the floor
DEGAN PASTRANA TRIPLE
in the snatch and clean.
DUNGEY QUAD TROY LEE DESIGNS
This is something so FACTORY
ne of the unique things fundamental to weightlifting, REDBUD VILLIPOTO
FORGED PISTON
Oabout training in the sport of yet I just insidiously stopped RUTS WHOLESHOT
FUEL INJECTION
weightlifting is the repetitiveness doing it. When I realized this SCRUB WHOOPS
HIGH POINT
of it. The vast majority of eight and implemented it back into my STEPUP YAMAHA
HONDA
or so hours I spend training each lifts (with a large and emphatic
week is comprised of the snatch, note in my training journal), my Harv’s Diner
the clean and jerk, variations of the pull immediately improved in a
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of squats. A lesser portion of time The timing for this
is spent on accessory exercises that ‘remembering’ is fantastic as I “ Where Winning Teams Start Their Day”
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For the most part, I am doing the the Canadian Masters in Rouyn-
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