The coolest thing for me this past weekend were the raffle open gym sessions we did. While I was not able to make the one on Friday I was there for Thursday night and Saturday morning. We had over 100 of our readers - customers come into train.
I not only speak for myself but all staff and team members of elitefts, it was very cool to meet as many of you as we could, get to know you, help with your lifts and watching all the social interaction. We wanted to create an environment that wasn't a seminar, that you could train your ass off, and have some team members there in case you had questions of simply wanted to train with them. Through these sessions I trained with 11 different people. Wore my ass out but enjoyed every set of it.
Watching you all interact with each other was great to see and I am sure many of you will remain friends for years to come.
As far as how our team did here are some bullet point stats below:
Competitors:
Joe Schillero (Elite Day) - Squat 700 Bench 530 deadlift 620 Total 1850, 4th in the 220 class
Mario D'Amico (Elite Day) - Squat- 820 Bench- 520 Deadlift- 570 Total- 1910. Placed 3rd in 220.
Joe Jordan (Pro Day) - 1015 squat, 645 bench and 665 pull for a 2325 total in the 275 class - Place 9th on Coefficient and 4th in the 275 class.
Christian Anto (Pro Day)- Squat 650 Bench 375 Deadlift 650 Total 1675, 3rd in the 181 class and 6th on coefficient.
Brandon Smitley (Pro Day) - 525 Squat 330 Bench 510 deadlift 1365 Total, first in the 132 class and 4th on coefficient.
Shane Church (Pro Day) - pulled out due to flu
Ken Whetham (Pro Day) - Squat 905, Bench 550, Dead 670, Total 2125. Second place in the 308 class and 11th by coefficient
John Meadows (IFBB 212) - not sure yet but out of top 6 (note: this is invite only so being there is an honor)
Coaches
Eric Maroscher - From the Monster Garage Gym:
Kristin Johnson placed 5th in the Amateur Strongman World Championships,
Crystal Tate placed second at the XPC Powerlifting Championships (she broke the ALL TIME squat, and total records for 198LB women with 610LB RAW squat, and 1,435LB RAW total).
Steve Brock got his opening squat of 950LBS but fell victim to the bench with his 770LB opener.
*Credit to Shaun Kopplin for prepping Crystal for this meet.
*Credit to Mike Gill for Kristin's strongman program.
CJ Murphy - from TPS
Zach DiCostanzo, 1st place-not sure on total or class, I think 198,
XPC-Jane Stabile-bombed on squat-tough day,
Strongman- Nick Cambi & Brittany Diamond + others, waiting for results (this was sent to me Sunday)
Steve Goggins
USAPL Lodrina Cherne, 3rd place 275 squat, 176 bench, 380 dl in the 57kg -- She also trains at TPS
Scott Stevenson
David Henry placed 3rd in the Men's 212 Bodybuilding
Shelby Starnes
Lifetime natural Women's Physique competitor Tarah Mitchell placed 8th out of 54 in the IFBB Women's Physique Division of the Arnold
Swede Burns
Ellen Stein- 375/180/415WR- 970 total.
Justine Albert placed 4th in tall class for women's physique, amateur.
* I'm sorry if I missed anyone. We have a bunch of coaches on the team involved with many different strength sports of the Arnold.