Weightlifting Colorado

2012 Colorado State and Open Competition

2011-12-08T19:00:00.000-08:00

Paul Fleschler and the Front Range Weightlifting Club will be hosting the 2012 Colorado State and Open Competition in Colorado Springs February 4th and 5th. Participation will be limited to 125 lifters. Registration closes January 25th unless the limit has already been reached. No late entries!

For times, location and online registration click on the link below:

http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1041097

This is a sanctioned USAW meet and all USAW competition rules apply. Awards will be given for School Age, Junior, Senior and Master categories.

Fall Open at Front Range Crossfit November 5th and 6th

2011-09-19T06:56:00.001-07:00

Registration is now open for Front Range Crossfit's annual Fall Open Weightlifting Meet.

Participation is limited to 125 so register now. The fee is $45 if you sign up by October 1st, after that it goes up to $65.

You must be a USAW athlete to compete. If you aren't already signed up with USAW you can do so here

There's seven weeks to get ready, so get in, practice and get some PRs at the meet!

Host an Olympic lifting clinic at your CrossFit

2011-08-04T15:07:00.000-07:00

If your affiliate wants to get with the program and learn the Olympic movements have us come to your facility to teach your coaches and members the Olympic movements. It will be a full day of hands-on learn by doing. This will be an outstanding experience for you and your members. For a full time-line of the clinic please see: Download Learning_the_Snatch_and_CJ_Day_Clinic

Don't pass up this opportunity!

Front Range Weightlifting Club Open Gym Training Days

2011-08-04T15:06:00.000-07:00

Front Range WLC will be hosting several Open Gym Training days at our facility at 522 South Tejon. We would like to invite anyone who is interested to participate. The training sessions are free and will begin promptly at 10:30am and go until about noon. The training sessions are intended to promote weightlifting in the state and to get to know other lifters in your LWC. Coaches are invited to come down to actively coach their lifters as well. We will also be hosting a "Learn by Doing" clinic on September 10th following training. The clinic flyer is here Download Sept 2011 Weightlifting Clinic and you can register for the clinic here. Open gym training days for the remainder of the year will be:

September 10^th Olympic Weightlifting learn by doing clinic from 12:00pm - 4:15pm
October 23rd Open Gym Training, 10:30 - noon
November 19^th Open Gym Training, 10:30 - noon
December 10^th Open Gym Training, 10:30 - noon

Come on down and get your lift on with Front Range WLC!

Weightlifting Camp Frontrange Crossfit

2011-07-30T08:28:00.000-07:00

Great opportunity to work with Coach Paul Fleschler. Limited to 24 athletes, so register now!

This Camp will take place on August 12^th – 14^th, two weeks after the CrossFit Games and will have two Olympic Lifting sessions per day, as well as lectures and extensive video analysis. There are 24 athlete slots for this camp. The O-Lift Camp will focus on improving Olympic Weightlifting technique, prior to this year’s CrossFit/USAW Open.Paul Fleschler has been the USAW High Performance Director as well as the Resident Athlete Coach at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. He is currently the owner of Red Rocks CrossFit. FRCF has worked with Paul extensively in the past, and is very excited to be able to host him at FRCF for this Camp.

Click here to register.

Upcoming Meets, Clinics and Camps

2011-05-15T12:32:00.000-07:00

Check the right hand sidebar of the blog for updates on area events.

Two events are coming up soon:

Saturday May 28th from 11:30 to 1:30, Flatirons Crossfit, 4847 Pearl Street, Boulder, CO will host a weightlifting clinic focusing on Snatch technique. Coaches: Randy Hauer, Tim Retzik and Keith Mitchell . Beginners are welcome. Cost is $30 to non-Flatirons Crossfit members. Sign up here: http://www.flatironscrossfit.com/olympicweightlifting/2011/05/may-update.html

The New Mexico State Games and Open is coming up June 4th. Entry Form can be downloaded and printed out here
The Release form can be downloaded and printed out here
Entries need to be postmarked by May 30th!

LWC President Paul Fleschler: A Vision for CO Weightlifting

2011-05-13T10:01:00.000-07:00

Paul Fleschler

Hello Colorado LWC members,

First, I wanted to thank all of you for your support in the past election! I would also like to congratulate Randy Hauer on his election as vice president and incumbents Kim Pinske as secretary and Miles Dowsell as treasurer. Together we will try to bring more opportunities to Colorado weightlifting in the form of competitions, weekend training sessions, coaching clinics, referee clinics and athlete participation not only at the local level but at the national and international level as well.

We have already gotten off to a great start with the CO state and open competition that was held last weekend by Rocky Mountain Lifting Club. Many thanks again to Dan and Jennifer for putting on a great competition! I would also like to thank the outgoing board for their work over the past several years.

However, to increase membership and to reach the goals we set forth we need your help. We need to get as many members actively participating as possible. If you have any ideas or want to host a competition, clinic or training day feel free to contact any of the LWC officers and we will try to make it happen. You must be proactive though! The only bad ideas are ideas that are not shared!

I have noticed over the past couple years the positive impact Crossfit has had on the weightlifting community. Several CF affiliates have USAW registered clubs and are actively participating in sanctioned events. Let's take advantage of the opportunity we have here! We have several coaches in our LWC who are USAW Senior coaches and higher. Many of these coaches either own affiliates or are involved at some level in CF. Let's work together to help each other and create as many opportunities for our athletes as possible!

Randy has already created a CO LWC blog to make communication and upcoming events more accessible. If you have any articles or ideas you would like to post please forward them to Randy so he can make them public. Thank you Randy for your quick work on this.

Our next weightlifting competition is the Rocky Mountain State Games to be held at the Olympic Training Center July 23rd. Please click on the link for all registration and event info. If you would like to help out in any capacity feel free to contact me and I will get you involved!

I know you are all busy and time is valuable so I would like to thank you again for taking the time to read this and to get involved. I look forward to working with you and making CO weightlifting a premier LWC.

New LWC Officers and a New Blog

2011-05-09T17:11:00.000-07:00

Members of USAW Colorado Local Weightlifting Committee voted recently to elect a new President and Vice President. Long ~~suffering~~ serving President Rick Reichstein announced he would be stepping down after this weekend's Colorado State and Open Championships. Jesse Malcomb moved from Colorado to California last fall and so resigned as Vice President. Buck Blackwood aslo stepped down as Vice President. Thanks to all three for their service and commitment to Olympic Weightlifting

Your new LWC officers are:

President Paul Fleschler
(you can read more about Paul here )

Vice President Randy Hauer
(you can read more about Randy here )

In addition to the e-mails that the membership receives from Secretary Kim Pinsky we hope to regularly communicate via this blog. Please feel free to contact me rchauer@gmail.com if you have an idea for a post whether it be an upcoming meet, a meet report or anything at all to do with weightlifting. Pictures and videos of your training and events are also welcome and encouraged.

Paul and Kim and I are already brainstorming hard to come up with new and innovative ways to promote the sport of Olympic Weightlifting in Colorado. Look for LWC CO info on Twitter and Facebook soon. We also want to see more meets, more clinics and more participation with coaches and athletes at USAW at the Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center. We can't do it in an information vacuum, however. If you have an idea, need or complaint please pass it along.

Colorado State and Open Championships recap to follow soon!