"Dead"lifting for your health

We finally broke out the barbells on "Crazy" Shannon from down the street and she performed beautifully. Reviewed the movements with a PVC pipe til she had it down and then started tackling our nice Pendalay bars. She tried out a little weight on one of our junior bars (10kg + 2x10lb bumpers) but that was too easy. Next was one of our women's bars (15kg + 2x10lb bumpers) but it was still no match for Shannon.

Finally got down to business with the regular men's bar (45lbs + 2x10lb bumpers) and her form got even better as the heavier weights prevented her from "cheating" the weight out of line. We eventually found her first ever 3-rep max on the Deadlift at... drumroll please... 100 pounds. Yes you read that right, 100 pounds of weight off the ground three times. Outstanding effort once again from Crazy Shannon. Now if we could just get her husband off of his treadmill/bench press addiction...



Shannon and her hubby will be out of town this weekend so they are going to miss out on our Fight Gone Bad workout at Jimmy Brought Gym on Fort Sam Houston on Saturday at 0830. Hopefully the weather will be nice and we can stay in the parking lot and collect funny looks from the elliptical bunnies... don't miss out... see you there... seriously... come on down...