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Show Competition, recreation and fitness Review Wednesday July 30, 1986 1C t sirs seek Power GARY HATCH f heir fotta Review sports editor This is the third in a series of four articles dealing with various aspects of weight training in the Lakeside area. Powerlifting is the logical end to weight training. While bodybuilding is a showplace for the weight trainer and while recreational lifters usually have some combination of goals in mind when they train, the thinks but one thing Move that mass. Powerlifters are competition weightlif-ter-s that perform three movements the bench press, squat and deadlift for a combined total. And the singular goal is always to up the total. Theres no ambiguity. No having to account for a judges tastes as in compete-tiv- e bodybuilding. You either heft the weight or you rudi-ment- al pow-erlift- er . dont. But the way most powerlifters continually raise their personal records may seem foreign even to those who have been training with weights for some time. They take two steps back to go three steps forward. Like backing up to get a better run at an increasingly steep hill, the theory goes. If you continuously apply the con- - Staff Photos by Robert Regan Working toward the USDFPA national meet in California next week, David Edmondson, squats 396 pounds stant pressure at a constant rate, youll spin out. Instead, back up and get a little mo which is almost four times his body weight. He is being spotted by Eric Aragon, left, and Kevin Koons. mentum. Jan Shendow, owner and operator with wife Lynda of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Center in Roy, says there are as many ways to successfully train for powerlifting as there are successful powerlifters. But the one point he continually stresses is the best way to raise totals is to back off in training. One of the hardest things for me is to try to get some of these guys to believe is that theyll lift more by lifting less, Shendow said. RMAC is the place to which most powerlifters in the area flock to train and to draw upon Shendows years of weight training experience. Most weight trainers are used to work- 20-pl- us Powerlifters often say the competition doesnt begin until the bar hits the floor, because a superb deadlift score can make up for lagging bench and squat points. Showing a deadlift of 420 pounds is Roy resident Chris Hennefer. Eric Aragon, with just fingertip help from a spotter, pushes up a 330-poun- d 1 best-bal- week. Fridays competition opened at Valley Golf Course in Layton, moved to Davis County Golf Course in Kaysville on a rainy and windy Saturday, and finished Sunday under perfect conditions at the Bountiful Golf Course. In the championship amateur flight. Brad Hansen and Mike Stone posted a final-da- y 65 to win their division by six View strokes. Playing three days in a row is something that doesn't happen in Utah ama- said Ken Pcttingill, a at Valley View. professional It seems to even things out. Its usually a pretty tight tournament by the end of the third day, he said. The best ball is a popular tournament. All openings jn both professional and teur golf," week. But Shendow, the state chairman of both the' U.S. Powerlifting Federation and the U.S. Drug Free Powerlifting Association, puts his lifters on an eight-wee- k schedule that often leaves newcomers feeling they should do more. Still, the program is geared to increase the lifters meet total, and if followed, usually brings success. A big fallacy many people believe is that a lifter can match his meet total at any time. But no one can be at his peak at all times. The cycle is the key, Shendow said. e In powerlifting we have to the workout to acclimate the lifter to heavier weights, he said. The easiest thing for a powerlifter to fine-tun- do is lift too much, Shendow said. Actually, lifting less to lift more is only a The athlete actually winds up lifting more weight, but he has lifted fewer sets and repetitions than hes used to. lifts other Also, assistance exercises than the three competition movements are cut down and eventually out. Shendow highly personalizes his plan when he applies it to his trainees. Matching it to the individual is so critical he cannot to be specific. However, the veteran powerlifters plan follows a few general rules that work for most new to the sport. Shendows cycle includes four lifting days each week. The bench press and a few other upper body movements the athlete wants to do are worked Mondays and Thursdays. The squats and deadlifts are done Tuesdays and Fridays. During the first four weeks of Shendows cycle, the lifter will begin training four sets of six repetitions, lifting somewhere near 60 percent of h is maximum. Not too diificult a task. half-trut- h. ft' See Power, page 2C bench press. Brigham City duo wins state Defying the hex of the frontrunner, Brigham City golfers Joel Kranz and Doug Bybee combined for an 60 to capture the Pepsi ColaSmiths Food King Utah State Best Ball Open golf tournament Sunday. the only three-da- y l, The state tournament in which Utah amateur ever have the chance to compete, was held at three Davis County golf courses last ing several movements for each body part, completely burning out a particular muscle group as many as three times a best-ba- ll golf tourney amateur classifications filled well before the start of the tournament. ll format. The players like the It takes the pressure off the individual and allows them to be more aggressive on the golf course, Pettingill said. Without a doubt, its a very popular tournament and all. the courses are in great shape, he said. Kranz and Bybee pocketed the $2,000 in top prize money by hitting gambles that paid off and by getting lucky on occasion. Basically, Bybee is very consistent. Hes down the middle and on the greens, Kranz said. I can count on him, so I was able to take some gambles I wouldnt in an individual tournament. These courses were perfect for that. They were shorter and the greens were reachable, Kranz said. best-ba- Bybce emphasized the luck. What can you say? Bybee asked af- ter the tournament. It was uncanny. We got into trouble one time and ended up making a birdie from jail. You try to go out and shoot a 62, but t ' Warding off wind and rain, Bill Stimpson from Clear- field ponders the break of a green Saturday at Davis you dont expect something like this, Bybee said.-I- t was the first time since the tournaments inception, 1984, that the first- - County Golf Course during day two of the state best-ba- ll tournament. round leaders won the championship. In three days on three courses and 54 holes of golf the winning duo only carded one bogey, Friday at hole No. 3 at Valley View. ' . sudden-dea- th its The duos win avengedGoodlifTe and playoff loss to Reidtournament. . 984 the in John Evans 1 |
