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Video: LBH Lifter Tom Hughes Places First at 2011 Pan Amer­i­can Masters

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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Long-​​​​time LBH lifter Tom Hughes keeps his win­ning streak alive by plac­ing first in his class (60–64 age group/​​105kg) at this year’s Pan Amer­i­can Mas­ters. Here’s video of his win­ning clean and jerk at 94 kg: Age group: 60–64     …
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Con­necti­cut Open Announced

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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Con­necti­cut Open Olympic Weightlift­ing Cham­pi­onships August 7, 2011 Bluestreak Sports Train­ing, Stam­ford, CT Reg­is­tra­tion dead­line: Wednes­day July 20 Down­load the reg­is­tra­tion form. First 80 entrants accepted. Con­tact: Gary Valen­tine, Team Con­necti­cut OWC garyv@​optonline.​net (203) 762‑2299 www​.con​necti​cutweightlift​ing​.com

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We’re Mov­ing to a New Face­book Page

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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Face­book is phas­ing out its old Groups for­mat. We do not qual­ify for auto­matic upgrade, so your group mem­ber­ships will be deleted some­time over the next month. It seems Face­book can never leave well enough alone. So we are mov­ing …
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Chris Schoeck in a Doc­u­men­tary About Steel Bending

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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Our very own Chris Schoeck is the sub­ject of Bend­ing Steel, a doc­u­men­tary about old-​​​​tyme steel bend­ing from the pro­duc­tion com­pany Sixkiller.
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John Broz on T-​​Nation: Max Out on Squats Every Day

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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T-​​Nation iter­view with top coach John Broz, in which he explains that there is no such thing as over­train­ing.
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The Bul­gar­ian Method in The Wall Street Journal

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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The Wall Street Jour­nal’s fea­ture on leg­endary Bul­gar­ian coach Ivan Abad­jiev and his quest to bring his method of train­ing to Amer­i­can ath­letes.
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LBH Ban­quet Open

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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The annual LBH Ban­quet Open/​​MET LWC Din­ner will be held Sat­ur­day, April 16, 2011. It’s a great way to social­ize with other area weightlifters as well as com­pete. Join us for the com­pe­ti­tion, the din­ner, or both! Com­pe­ti­tion sched­ule: Weigh in: …
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Video: LBH Lifter Tom Hughes Places First at 2011 National Masters

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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Long-​​​​time LBH lifter Tom Hughes placed first in his class (60–64 age group/​​94kg) at this year’s Nation­als Mas­ters. Good job, Tom! Here’s video of his win­ning clean and jerk at 93 kg: Age group: 60–64     Class: 94kg     Born: …
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Jack LaLanne Dead at 96

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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The New York Times: “Jack LaLanne, whose obses­sion with gru­el­ing work­outs and good nutri­tion, com­ple­mented by a salesman’s gift, brought him recog­ni­tion as the founder of the mod­ern phys­i­cal fit­ness move­ment, died Sun­day after­noon at his home in Morro Bay, Calif. He was 96.”
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Does Weight Train­ing Make Us Smarter?

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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The New York Times talks about research that is show­ing that brains ben­e­fit from resis­tance train­ing, too, not just car­dio. The brain ben­e­fits from being used, so that, in a neat cir­cle, resis­tance train­ing may both demand and cre­ate addi­tional …
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