Category 5 Athletics

Quote of the week…

It’s not what you achieve, it’s who you become in the process each and every day. Stay curious and eager to keep learning and improving. That’s the trick.

It’s official! Starting tomorrow (April 27th) we will begin training in our new location! Bringing the same standards and goal in the sport of Weightlifting to the Pinellas Park area!

Some changes to scheduling and pricing coming with options for hybrid remote-in person memberships. Contact us today via the website to find out more!

To members and friends! Save the date, we’re 2 weeks away from our move! (If ya haven’t heard). Relocating to a space in pinellas park. More details to come but first moving day. Message me if you have questions

Simple. It’s fine to say things, say what you want, know who you are. But then be that person, live that life.

Last Day to register is Monday! (March 16th). Don’t miss this opportunity to advance your coaching career with this 2 day coaching certification course.

First up recapping the weekend at Virus Series 1,
who competed in the 58kg open class. Posting a 51*/62/113* line. PRs in sn**ch and total as well as a competition PR for CJ. Congrats Emma 👏🏼 first series meet was one to remember!

Off to Cbus in a few days to kick off the competitive year for Cat 5! We have 6 athletes competing this weekend make sure to wish them luck and check their start times to catch their sessions on the live stream!

First full week of the year down, great energy on a full house Saturday morning team session!

A tough (“bad” - but I don’t like that word) day is still a productive day if you choose to let it be.

The longer you chase a goal, the higher you climb the more days are going to feel like tough days. Not your best, not as sharp as you’d like it, not as strong as you’d hoped it would be. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t a productive training day (or competition)

Maybe it’s a learning day, showing you something you’re lacking in, presenting an opportunity to embrace a weakness and commit to working on it
Maybe it’s a day to work on controlling your responses to your emotions, emotions are always ok, our responses to them aren’t always.
Maybe it’s a day to step back and learn, your body might not be on point but your mind could be, work on technique, mobility, learning in sport isn’t always physical effort.

More days than not are not going to be ring the bell PR days. But everyday will teach out something if you let it, and you’ll be better off when the good ones comes because of it. Embrace tough days, mistakes, and failure until they don’t scare you anymore.

Team recap from this past weekend in Daytona!
We had 7 lifters compete this weekend, 4 in the open division of Finals, and 3 masters lifters. Brought home a total of 8 medals 🏅

4/6 - 56/77/133 *PR total
- Silver medal in sn**ch/CJ/Total w35 53kg
4/6 - 78/98/176
-comp Sn**ch PR, 4th M50 79kg
4/6 - 103/120/223
- 2nd place in sn**ch/CJ/total M40 88kg
3/6 - 78/93/171
- Top 5 in sn**ch/CJ/Total w35 69kg
4/6 - 130/163/293
- *PR total
3/6 - 96/120/216
- 3rd in total, 2nd in sn**ch, 4th in CJ.
2/6 - 76/107/183
-PR clean at 111kg, best national meet total!

Everyone walked out of this meet with a performance to be proud of, either by way of attempted PRs, stage PRs, medals, or just overall performance on a national stage. Real proud of this groups performance! Back to work after the holidays for the Arnold prep.

Wrapping up our weekend is Kristen! She’ll be competing in the 86kg C session at Noon, this is her 2nd trip to AO Finals in the open division! Wish her good luck below 💪🏼