Abertay University Weightlifting Club

🛑 TRAINING SESSIONS SUSPENDED 🛑

With the coronavirus outbreak, it has been decided to suspend all training sessions of the Weightlifting Club. For now, Abertay Gym will remain open as usual (until further notice) so you can still continue with your individual training.

Stay safe.

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Hello everyone!

There is the Scottish University and College Powerlifting Competition the 4th and 5th of April in the venue Elysium, Edinburgh! The entries are already open and will close the 22nd of March. The only entry requirements are being a student at Abertay and being older than 17 and under 25 as of Jan 1st 2020! No need to have big lifts!

This would be our first year at the Championship! Apparently there are 6 of us going, if you would like to join us or if you guys know anyone else that would like to, please send us a message! Everyone would get all the expenses covered by Abertay Sport, just need to have/pay for the Sports Union membership.

Here is the link to the competition:

04/04/2020-05/04/2020 – Scottish University and College Championships 2020, Elysium, Edinburgh – Scottish Powerlifting 08 Feb Announcements, Competition Entries, Entry Forms 04/04/2020-05/04/2020 – Scottish University and College Championships 2020, Elysium, Edinburgh By Web Officer Facebook Twitter Google Email Pinterest

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Training days will be moved to Tuesdays from 5pm-7pm! Finally we managed to get the room booked during the week as during first term it was fully booked. Sunday trainings are not on anymore!

The next training session is on:
- 𝐓𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟖𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 from 5pm to 7pm in room 1008

If you are new and would like to join the club, pop us an email to [email protected] and let us know you want to join the sessions (or ask any questions if you have some!)

Hope to see you there!!

Today’s session snapshot:
- Foreground: hip thrusts with 260kg on the bar
- Background: sn**ch session led by Marcelle in progress

Everyone is welcome to join our Sunday sessions, drop us a message if you have any question!!

We had our 1st session of the year today and it was a huge success!! 💪🏼 Thank you to everyone for coming along, happy to see so many like-minded people in one place! Some of you are just about to start lifting and others are much more experienced, but it is happy to see how well we blend all together. Our next session will run next Sunday (27th October) and remember, whether you are a complete novice or an elite lifter, you are more than welcome to join our revamped weightlifting club 🏋️‍♀️

It’s not often a coach says ‘you don’t look like you’re nearly in enough pain’ but apparently coming from Marcelle that’s motivational😜 Today’s learn to lift session again hit hard at the heart of the sn**ch movement focusing on positional awareness, balance and stability... attributes I didn’t quite possess after one too many last night.

With class advice coming from every direction it’s easy to see why everyone is coming on so damn well, soon every bar in the club was loaded and weights were flying over head with ease💪🏼

Lots of quality training delivered this morning by Marcelle and Jason on the basics of powerlifting and Olympic weightlifting. Squats and sn**ch were the order of the day with Lots of positives to take from the session along with lots of learning points🏋🏼‍♀️

Abertay Weightlifting are considering re-launching in 2017. Would anyone be interested in joining the weightlifting club if we were to start again? Please like and share this post and comment if you'd like to join.

The second session is going to be this Wednesday from 2pm to 4pm at Abertay gym. It will also be a free session as we had emailing problems last week. See you there!

The first session is going to be this Wednesday from 2pm to 4pm at Abertay gym. See you there!

Freshers Fayre tomorrow in the Sports Bar from 10-4, come along and sign up for this year's weightlifting club...