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Post Date: 24/8/09

With Bash at the Beach 3 approaching, the guys and girls are really starting to extend themselves in the gym. Multiple PB's are being broken every night, as clients are reaping the rewards of their hard sessions.

Using previous competition results, here are some of the improved totals currently. Whether the lifter can hit all his PB's on the same day is questionable, although it's a regular occurrence.

Alen - 650kg @ AD09. Currently at 712.5kg
Nick - 706kg @ BATB2. Currently at 792.5kg
Max - 552.5kg at AD09. Currently at 623.5kg
Fat Dave - 530kg @ AD09. Currently at 657.5kg
Nicky - 420kg @ AD09. Currently at 545kg
Mick - 590kg @ AD09. Currently at 635kg
Kelly - 667.5kg at BATB3. Currently at 750kg
Vicky - 277.5kg at AD09. Currently at 310kg

Gym records that have been set since AD09 are

Spiros - 215kg squat
Annie - 60kg powerclean
Brittany - 135kg deadlift

The bench press record is soon to fall, Simon just missed a 166kg bench press last time he tried. He will make 170kg in the near future.

Here are the current gym records as they stand now.

Squat.............Spiros 215kg..........Nina 105kg
Bench press.....Spiros 165kg..........Nina 77.5kg
Powerclean......James 126kg..........Annie 60kg
Overhead.........Pat 120kg.............Nina 55kg
Deadlift...........Tony 265kg...........Brittany 135kg

Total..............Spiros 860kg..........Nina 422.5kg

The Thursday night weightlifting session was a huge success, with 11 lifters taking part. It was pleasing to see that every lifter passed the mobility test before commencing with the Olympic lifts. Each client discovered how tough Olympic lifting is, with most struggling by the end of the one hour session. We didn?t exceed 3 reps on any lift, yet everyone struggled aerobically to keep up. I?m expecting an even bigger turnout this Thursday.




Post Date: 22/8/09

Best efforts today

Nick 4 board bench 160kg x 2
Fat Dave 170kg squat....PB
Trish 156kg squat......PB
James powercleaned 120kg
James 170kg squat
James 250kg deadlift
James 220kg x 7 deadlift....PB

James has now deadlifted

250kg x 1
220kg x 7
200kg x 11

Fat Daves total is now 657.5kg




Post Date: 21/8/09

More PB's tonight

Max deadlifted 180kg - PB
Nicky deadlifted 185kg - PB
Alen deadlifted 200kg x 3
Max jerked 95kg out of the rack
Dim deadlifted 160kg x 2

Max's total is now 623.5kg, that gives him a Wilkes of just under 480 points.

Nicky is approaching 550kg and Dim is also just shy of 550kg.




Post Date: 19/8/09

Where to begin

Emma 40kg x 5 bench pess...PB
Emma 40kg x 5 push press...PB
Emma 70kg x 5 squat........PB
David 100kg bench press....PB
David 120kg squat..........PB
David 75kg push press......PB
Fat Dave 90kg clean........PB
Fat Dave 90kg push press...PB
Sean 130kg squat...........PB
Sean 85kg bench press......PB
Sean 70kg push press.......PB
Nick 120kg x 5 x 5 BP......PB
Adam 90kg bench press......PB
Adam 210kg deadlift........PB
Tim 90kg x 5 x 5 BP........PB

Fat Dave now has his total at 652.5kg. Dave missed a 90kg clean when he fell backwards. He is unstable on runners, so Max had him wear his lifting shoes. He caught the clean rock bottom in the full squat position, settled, then stood up. He had done zero pressing, so his delts and tri's were cold, but seeing as he had never had 90kg on his shoulders before, he decided to ram it up.

Adam is a lifter that Nick has been training. A great guy who will be competing at Bash. He came in to test his PB's and smashed them.He becomes the 38th lifter to deadlift 200kg at PTC.




Post Date: 17/8/09

Tonights highlights

Emma squats 75kg....PB
Emma benches 45kg....PB
Hamish benches 120kg...PB
James squats 90kg......PB.....60yo
Dim powercleans 87.5kg....PB
Mick powercleans 95kg.....PB
Mick pushpresses 92.5kg.....PB
Nina front squats 65kg.....PB

Micks total is now 642.5kg




Post Date: 15/8/09

I know I say this most nights, but the lifting tonight was as good as it gets.

Alen deadlifted 220kg for a PB
Dim deadlifted 175kg for a PB
Max deadlifted 172.5kg for a PB
Nicky cleaned 85kg for a PB
Nicky clean and jerked 77.5kg for a PB
Nick push pressed 120kg out of the rack for a PB
Alen push pressed 100kg out of the rack for a PB
Alen squatted 165kg for a PB
Nick deadlifted 220kg
Nick squatted 185kg
Spiros deadlifted 200kg
Fat Dave deadlifted 200kg
Nick & Dim deadlifted 300kg......together
Fat Dave benched 87.5kg x 5 x 5

Nick was testing his back tonight, it passed. He missed a 240kg deadlift and 190kg squat. He wouldve got the squat if he had bypassed the 185kg attempt.

After Alen and Nick deadlifted 200kg in quick succession, Spiros and Dave also deadlifted. Four guys, one straight after another deadlifted 200kg, all in under around 30 seconds. The amazing thing was Spiros and Dave were stone cold. Spiros wasnt training and Dave had done 2 sets of bench press. I captured this on video, it looked amazing. As did Nick and Dims 300kg deadlift lol




Post Date: 14/8/09

Had some absolutely incredible lifting tonight. Plenty of video footage captured by Max.

Kelly just missing a 160kg bench
Kelly just missing a 240kg deadlift
Kelly push pressing 115kg.....PB
Mick benching 120kg...PB
Mick deadlifting 205kg...PB
Fat Dave deadlifting 210kg.....PB
Annie deadlifting 125kg......PB
Spiros deadlifting 210kg
Spiros push pressing 120kg


Max's video will be wrapped up on Saturday. It will be permanantly on the front page of the PTC website. I wont get some of Nick and James big lifts which is dissapointing. All the footage is actual training footage taken in 1 week, no posed shit. Some incredible lifting on this vid.




Post Date: 7/8/09

Nicky squatted 105kg.....PB
Dim squatted 115kg.......PB
Max squatted 155kg......PB......(2.3 X BW)
Alen squatted 160kg......PB
Max front squatted 120kg...PB




Post Date: 6/8/09

More stuff I forgot to mention.

Nick, Trish and Tim did reps with bodyweight in the bench press.

Tim got 7 reps with 85kg
Trish got 8 reps with 100kg
Nick got 10 reps with 110kg.........that was his 1RM when he started the bench sessions (he missed 115kg on the day we started)


Marco (MR S13) came round for his second visit to PTC. He has been in constant touch and training hard over in SA.

Today he came with a mission of getting on the 200kg board. He made 200kg look stupid, went straight to 220kg and finished with 230kg. He also benched, did hang cleans, ladder chins and played with the Torsonator. His total is over 600kg, strong boy.


Kelly powercleaned 105kg....PB
Mick powercleaned 107.5kg....PB...(spartacus)
Simon powercleaned 110kg....PB
Kelly push pressed 110kg...PB
Simon push pressed 110kg.....PB
James benched 70kg x 5...PB
Annie squatted 70kg.....PB




Post Date: 5/8/09

Bec powercleaned 50kg
Caroline powercleaned 47.5kg
Emma bench squatted 92.5kg
James bench squatted 120kg....60yo
James benched 70kg x 2.....60yo

Nick, Trish and Max are currently doing a weightlifting program that has been given to Trish. Its 10.45pm, all 3 have already trained tonight, and they are doing ths on top.

From next Wednesday, they will do their regular bench session at 8.00pm and then do the Olympic lifts at 9.00pm, so Alen can join in, as all 4 are very close in strength and there wont be any/much plate changing.

The program looks really tough, it goes something like this.

powerclean 4 x 3
squat clean 4 x 3
front squats 3 x 3
push press 3 x 3
front squats 4 x 4

The boys look absolutely drained, good times lol.Should be finished sometime after 11.00pm.

I forgot to mention

Nick benched 142.5kg...PB
Trish benched 122.5kg...PB
Tim benched 105kg.....PB
Dim benched 95kg.......PB

The boys will also be doing their Olympic lifting on Saturday morning as well.




Post Date: 3/8/09

Nick, Ash and Jayden using the Torsonater tonight.

Very positive response from all that used it tonight, including Spiros, Nick, Jayden, Mick, Ash, Mick, Sean, Dave, James, Emma, Brittany, Annie, Bec, Alen, Dim, Nick, Max, Hamish and Kasper.

James bench squatted 125kg tonight...60 years old
Brittany bench squatted 80kg x 4...PB
Emma bench squatted 80kg x 3
James benched 70kg x 3....PB
Hamish bench squatted 110kg x 3
Kasper bench squatted 110kg x 5
Mick benched 115kg...just missed 120kg
Other Mick C&PP 95kg......PB

I forgot to mention, Alen and Max made a mockery of their "squat PB". Max's PB is 145kg and Alens 155kg.

Tonight, during their squat session Max did 142.5kg x 5 singles and Alen did 152.5kg x 5 singles.




Post Date: 30/7/09

Okay, this is going to be an incredibly long list, because I have some incredible lifts from hard working lifters, brace yourself. These lifts are in order of when they were done. You will notice some lifters smashed PB?s more than once in the week

Kelly 170kg bench squat
Max cleaned 105KG...PB
Fat Dave benched 85kg x 5 x 5
Skinny Dave benched 65kg x 5 x 5
James is 60 years old. Tonight he bench squatted 100kg x 5.
Ryan front squatted 125kg
Trish front squatted 120kg
Max front squatted 115kg
Dave squatted 160kg
James deadlifted 200kg x 8
Max military pressed 65kg for a PB. Only 5kg off bodyweight
Alen military pressed 85kg for a PB.
Max and Alen did their 5 x 3 squat session, Max with 135kg and Alen with 145kg.
Max cleaned 106kg...PB
Annie cleaned 60kg..PB....gym record
Caroline cleaned 45kg..PB
Nina bench squatted 110kg...PB...gym record
Caroline bench squatted 80kg..PB
Christy bench squatted 80kg..PB
Emma 90kg bench squat...PB...second only to Nina's 110kg, awesome effort
Alen 107.5kg powerclean...PB
Max 108.5kg powerclean....PB
Nick 115kg powerclean
Alen 90kg military press @ 89.6kg.....PB
Alen 95kg push press
Nick 117.5kg x 5 x 5 bench press
Jimmy 175kg bench squat....gym record
Mick 150kg bench squat.....PB
Kat 75kg bench squat......PB
David benched 95kg....PB
David powercleaned 75kg
Sean bench squatted 120kg

New equipment in the gym consists of fat handled bars and dumbbells, Zhang Kong competition bar, with more to come.

Those of you reading this that don't lift at PTC. Lifters train using multiple reps and sets. PB's are attempted when a lifter clears his planned session. I only post up 1RM results, otherwise this page would be a mile long.




Post Date: 23/7/09

Plenty of new clients started in the last couple of weeks. Brent, Nick, Ash, Jayden, Simmo, Russ, Juddy, Chandel and Stacey. I also have Katherine and Elizabeth starting shortly. Tim and Amelia joined Nick and Trish last night. Not sure if they will lift with them again, but it was a pleasure to have them lift. Both did extremely well, Tim is a natural, very close to a mesomorph. He won't know what that means, he'll probably think I'm calling him a transformer. Bec is back training again as her knees recover. She competed in a UNO championship while resting and didn't make the final table. Weak.

Have had quite a few big lifts recently, I'll try and remember most of them.

Simon 160kg bench press
Kelly 150kg bench press
Spiros 150kg bench press
Annie 120kg deadlift
Brittany 50kg x 2 bench press
Emma 75kg x 5 bench squat
Emma 40kg x 5 push press
Max 102.5kg powerclean
Alen 105kg powerclean
Brent 210kg deadlift
Jayden 210kg deadlift
Ash 180kg deadlift
Nicholas 190kg deadlift
Dim 165kg deadlift
Nick 140kg bench press
Trish 120kg bench press
Fat Dave 87.5kg clean & press
Izzy 40kg push press..........................14yo girl
Hamish powercleaned 82.5kg
Kasper powercleaned 85kg
Emma bench pressed 40kg x 2
Trish front squatted 120kg
Nick front squatted 140kg
James deadlifted 200kg x 7
Kelly deadlifted 200kg x 7
Simon deadlifted 200kg x 5

All the clients are doing bench squats to a 40cm high bench and stopping dead on it, pausing, then standing up. Here are the best results after 2 weeks of doing it.

Max - 165kg
Alen - 160kg
James - 160kg
Dave - 150kg
Ryan - 145kg
Kelly - 140kg
Simon - 140kg
Mick - 120kg
Sean - 120kg
Nicky - 110kg
Dim - 110kg
Nina - 107.5kg
David - 100kg

Come to cardio you lazy fucks. A couple of you were really shown up during sessions last week. If you don't come to cardio I'll torture you during your regular session.




Post Date: 7/7/09

Kelly benches 155kg
Simon benches 150kg
Spiros squats 205kg
Kelly deadlifts 230kg
Simon deadlifts 230kg
Nick benches 135kg
Spiros benches 145kg
Travis benches 125kg
Elissa benches 52.5kg
Glenn deadlifts 200kg
Kelly cleans and presses 105kg
Glenn squats 140kg
Ryan cleans and presses 95kg
Dave squats 150kg
James squats 150kg x 5
Dave cleans and presses 85kg
Annie benches 50kg
Caroline benches 60kg
Annie deadlifts 115kg
Caroline deadlifts 102.5kg
Dave 6 chins, not on his face, but 6 wide grip chins
Mick performs 44" box jump

Can anyone with a hoodie order please pay so I can order them thanks, and anybody wanting a hoodie please order one in the next week.

Fat Dave is down to 99.5kg again.

No parking on neighbours nature strips please, it cuts them up during the winter months.

Bec wins regional UNO championship





Post Date: 1/7/09

Nick benches 112.5kg x 5 x 5
Ryan benches 105kg x 5 x 5
Alen squats 140kg x 3 x 5
Spiros squats 200kg and benches 140kg
New girl Caroline Carter benches 55kg
Website approaching 2500 visitors
Dave farts during KB complex with 3 girls.......nice
Collingwood has won one premiership in 51 years
Bank of Dim just got dumber
Nick does 4 board press with 140kg x 5
Daniel joins bench group
Hamish joins bench group
Kelly and Simon become regulars
Bec wins $2,000,000 playing tattslotto
Travis, Dim, Nicky, Alen and Max make 40" box jump
James trades grounds keeping with cardio sessions
Dave had a girl ring him......his car payment was late
Dave rings a girl.......to order a pizza
Dave has car repossessed while picking up pizza
Remember to laugh people





Post Date: 22/6/09

Mick became our 31st lifter to deadlift 200kg, well done Mick. The girls are all pushing their totals up with Bec, Annie, Vicky, Brittany and Kat all hitting PB's this week. I have a new record board for the boys at PTC. Its everyone's favourite lift, the BENCH PRESS. Current standings for all lifts performed at PTC are


Bench press

Spiros - 165kg
Cameron - 160kg
Louie - 155kg
Tony - 150kg
Pat - 146kg
Kelly - 142.5kg
James - 142.5kg
Simon - 140kg
Chris - 140kg
Matt - 140kg
Nadir - 140kg
Adam - 137.5kg
Nick - 132.5kg
Jovi - 131kg
Travis - 122.5kg
Ryan - 120kg
Alen - 120kg



I'm expecting a couple of big benchers to come down for BATB3, maybe get a couple more 150kg benchers. Some of these guys have benched much more away from PTC, but I'm only listing lifts at PTC.

I may also introduce a squat board, seeing how there have been plenty of 180kg plus squats. Without going back and doing a quick search, here are the biggest squats done at PTC in comps or out.


Squat

Spiros - 215kg
Tony - 190kg
Pat - 190kg
Jovi - 187.5kg
Nick - 186kg
Chris - 182.5kg
Chris - 180kg
Louie - 181kg
James - 180kg



Remember, all the lifts listed above are done without any assistance gear, not even a belt. Waiting for the 10th guy to squat 180kg raw. I know that there is a deadlift honor board, but there are no weights next to the names, here are the totals.


Deadlift

Tony - 265kg
Pat - 260kg
Louie - 255kg
James - 251kg
Spiros - 250kg
Simon - 240kg
Chris - 240kg
Nick - 230kg
Kelly - 220kg
Chris - 220kg
Brendon - 220kg
Jovi - 220kg



You'll need a 120 bench, 180 squat and 220 dead to get on these boards.

Bench sessions are available if anyone is interested in joining the current groups doing specialized bench programs. Details in the newsletter, issue # 61.




Post Date: 15/6/09

Kelly benches 130kg + yellow bands
James benches 90kg x 5 + orange bands
Spiros squats 180kg
Briony starts a PTC Face Book page
Emma squats 40kg x 20
Nicky deadlifts 170kg x 2
Mick deadlifts 190kg x 2
Travis deadlifts 180kg
Glen hang cleans 80kg @ 78kg on first go
Glen squats 100kg x 5 on first go
Spiros deadlifts 200kg
Dim says something stupid
Fat Dave falls over powercleaning
Fat Dave farts whilst lifting
Brittany misses first ever session
Brittany makes up session
Bec trains on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Bec forgets where she lives
Emma powercleans 45kg
Brittany powercleans 52.5kg
Nick benches 110kg x 5 x 5




Post Date: 8/6/09

Alen deadlifts 200kg x 4
Mick deadlifts 180kg x 4
Mick powercleans 90kg x 4
Alen powercleans 90kg x 4
Spiros squats 160kg
James benches 62.5kg x 5
James squats 70kg x 5
Max squats 140kg
Alen powercleans 102.5kg
Glen powercleans 75kg
James push presses 100kg x 3
Ryan benches 100kg x 5 x 5

Sean and Monique return after lengthy layoff.
New guy Shane vomits at first cardio session.
We clean the gym out and change stuff around, a few new members join up, Shane and Ben, more expected tonight.
Corrine takes 2 days off work after his first session.
Nick and Trish get wasted, miss Saturday's session.
James returns, has lost nothing and may be even stronger
Carlton beat Lions, Lakers beat Orlando, Holland beats England
Fat Dave wears a g string under his tracky dacks
Female clients report g strings stolen
Ryan joins bench group
Dim Sim says something stupid
Spiros and Ryan squat for 70 minutes straight, 19 sets total each




Post Date: 1/6/09

Brittany smashes female deadlift record at PTC. Brittany deadlifted 135kg to beat Amanda's record set 12 months ago by 5kg. It appears Brittany still has a bit left in the tank also.

Dim and Nicky both bench press 90kg
Young 15yo Nick bench pressed 80kg
Big Nick bench pressed 132.5kg
Annie cleaned 50kg, moving her into equal second place
Bec deadlifted 115kg, the fourth biggest female deadlift ever at PTC
Alen 120kg bench press
Izzy 43.5kg bench press ( 14yo girl)
Izzy 50kg squat
Izzy 37.5kg powerclean & press
Dave 80kg C&P
Dave 77.5kg Judd
Jason 75kg powerclean
Mick 90kg C&P




Post Date: 26/5/09

The hoodie order has been placed, I am hoping to have them by the end of the week or early next week.

Nicky, Dim, Alen, Mick, Travis, Trish, Mick, Nick and Max are training hard for the upcoming BATB3 comp in September, although Max and Nick are nursing injuries.

The girls have all stepped up their training, with Bec achieving a 300kg total. I now have 11 girls who can deadlift 100kg plus. Great job girls.

Brittany became the third girl to bench press 50kg, the race is now on for the 3rd girl to bench 60kg. Closing in on Brittany is Vicky, Kat, Monique, Elissa, Bec and Annie. Good luck girls.

The PTC kettlebell now weighs 130kg, I'm not sure if this is good news or bad news.

PTC now has 3 granite stones thanks to Spiros. The smaller one weighs 40kg, next up is 86kg and finally 93kg. These granite stones are perfect spheres.

I have more t shirts in stock after running out, they are dark grey with white print, still only $20 each

Reggie now weighs 15.6kg




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