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About Leonard Bacino

Winner of the 2007 National Masters Championships in Savannah GA, Len Bacino is the oldest lifter to qualify for the 2007 Empire State Games, and probably the only athlete to qualify for and compete in the games in both 1977 and 2007 -- 30 years apart. Len is a firm believer in the weightlifters' adage, "Be prepared to lift anywhere, anytime, and under any conditions." He is the secretary of the LBH Weightlifting Team, assists Joe Triolo with coaching, and helps manage the website.

2007 Met­ro­pol­i­tan Open Commentary

Posted on October 28, 2007 by Leonard Bacino
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Meet direc­tor Coach Joe Tri­olo did an excel­lent job man­ag­ing the con­test. Many thanks to all the lifters and vol­un­teers who made this a suc­cess­ful and enter­tain­ing sport­ing event at the Weightlift­ing Mecca, Lost Bat­tal­ion Hall.
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Dear USAW: Please Help Our Sport Grow

Posted on August 14, 2007 by Leonard Bacino
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Imag­ine this: A youth sees a weightlift­ing exhi­bi­tion at his high school. Impressed by the dis­play of strength, skill, and speed he decides to learn Olympic lift­ing. He walks into a gym, engages the ser­vices of a coach, and learns the lifts. His peers, curi­ous of his new activ­ity, fol­low him to the gym. Some of them become inter­ested in the sport and par­tic­i­pate. Before long, some of their friends and con­tem­po­raries also become engaged in the sport…
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Spot­light on Strong­man Howard Menkes

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Leonard Bacino
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Weightlifters and strength ath­letes are a diverse bunch. Their voca­tions span the gamut from laborer to lawyer, civil ser­vant to engi­neer. And the mem­bers of Lost Bat­tal­ion Hall Weightlift­ing are no excep­tion. Our team depicts a cross sec­tion of New …
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Per­for­mance Enhanc­ing Drugs and Weightlifting

Posted on February 23, 2006 by Leonard Bacino
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Whether the use of per­for­mance enhanc­ing drugs in pro­fes­sional sports is proper has become a topic of con­tentious debate. The under­ly­ing theme of a recent book by Jose Canseco, the for­mer major league base­ball player who has admit­ted to tak­ing …
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Weightlift­ing Marine James Pow Gives ‘Em Hell

Posted on November 30, 2005 by Leonard Bacino
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Our fel­low weightlifter, James Pow, a U.S. Marine fight­ing for us in Iraq who recently con­tacted us after see­ing our web­site, wrote us a let­ter thank­ing us for our sup­port and for the Lost Bat­tal­ion Hall Weightlift­ing Team patches we …
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Weightlift­ing and Youth

Posted on October 9, 2005 by Leonard Bacino
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Weightlift­ing trans­forms our youth into phys­i­cally fit and men­tally bal­anced adults. It defines behav­ior and habits that are con­sis­tent with a healthy and happy life. The ben­e­fits of weightlift­ing span a life­time[…]
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His­tory of the Lost Battalion

Posted on October 9, 2005 by Leonard Bacino
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Dur­ing WWI, on Octo­ber 2nd, 1918, units of the 77th “Lib­erty” Divi­sion from New York advanced into the dense ter­rain of the Argonne For­est in France. His­tory was made over the next six days as this unit, the Lost Bat­tal­ion, …
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A Sol­dier in Iraq Says Hello to the LBH Weightlift­ing Team

Posted on October 9, 2005 by Leonard Bacino
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We often receive emails from peo­ple inter­ested in learn­ing Olympic lift­ing or want­ing to train with us when in NYC. Some­times we receive emails from peo­ple say­ing how they like our web­site or how they remem­ber train­ing here at LBH. …
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Com­men­tary: 2005 NYC Open

Posted on September 18, 2005 by Leonard Bacino
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There was strong com­pe­ti­tion in the Men’s classes. Lost Bat­tal­ion Hall Weightlift­ing Team’s 56 kg Eric Briglia took 1st lift­ing against him­self to make a respectable 122.5 kg total. 62 kg Peter Musa, son of mas­ter lifter Joanne Musa, made …
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