Barbell and Beyond

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2025 DT Nationals

Athletes;

4x National Champions
2x Best Overalls

🥇 -67.5kg Teen
9/9 attempts, ATPB total
Best Overall Junior - $250 prize
Coached by

🥇.blight.coaching -100kg M1
9/9 attempts, ATPB total
Best Overall Master - $500 prize
Coached by

🥇 -110kg M1
7/9 attempts, PBs on all lifts
Coached by

🥇.rodger -90kg M3
8/9 attempts, all PBs + PB total
First Nationals
Coached by

🥈 -100kg Open
6/9 attempts, PB bench + Deadlift
Coached by

First Nationals;

🔥 -75kg Open
8/9 attempts, all BW comp PBs
Coached by

🔥 -90kg Open
9/9 attempts, all BW comp PBs
Coached by

13 new NZPU National Records 💪

Meet Day Coaching Athletes:

🥇 -67.5kg Open
2nd Best Overalls Female - $750 prize
Bench & Total Records, 415kg total
Coached by

🥇 -125kg Open
2nd Best Overall Male - $750 prize
Squat, bench, deadlift, total records, 802.5kg total
Coached by

🥇 -140kg Open
7/9 attempts
Coached by

🥉 -110kg M1
7/9 attempts
PB squat, deadlift & total
Coached by

Thank you to , all the volunteers abs organisers for a fantastic day 💪

Thank you to , for your help in the warm up room 🙏

Thank you to all our athletes & co-coach for an incredible Nationals.

Thank you to all the athletes and coaches who put their trust in us, to meet day coach them to their best possible platform performances 👊

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Best of luck to all our athletes competing at NZPU Tested Nationals in Christchurch 6th December. The team have worked so hard and are ready to battle for medals, records & best overalls 😤🔥

Session 1 / Flight A:
Ruby Pratt -67.5kg Teens
Sophie McDiarmid -75kg Open

Sesion 1 / Flight C:
Nicole O’Brien -90kg Open

Session 2 / Flight A:
Gary Rodger -90kg M3
Jason Blight -100kg M1

Session 2 / Flight B:
Jana Bell -100kg Open
Michelle Reid -110kg M1

Coaches:



Federation;


Host Gym;

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Auckland Cup - Meet Recap

Brooke competed at the Powerlifting Auckland Cup on Sunday.
She achieved something pretty incredible; all-time competitions PBs for her squat, bench press, and deadlift, which equals an all-time PB total as well!

9/9 Attempts made:

122.5kg Squat (PB)
77.5kg Bench (PB)
160kg Deadlift (PB)
360kg Total (PB)

Her total of 360kg earned her 2nd Place in the -84kg Open class. This was Brooke’s third competition this year and such a great outcome for a very consistant & hard worker.

Brooke is also a mum of three young children and is studying to become a chartered accountant at Massey University.

This year, she was the recipient of multiple awards and scholarships, including the Massey University & Maori Education Trust Manawaroa Scholarship, and the CA ANZ & NKMoA Suzanne Spenser Memorial Maori Scholarship.

One of our goals at Barbell & Beyond is to support athletes like Brooke to achieve their goals, not just in Powerlifting, but in their academic pursuits and in life. She was one of the first recipients of our Barbell and Beyond Student Athlete Scholarships.

A huge congratulations from all of us, Brooke.
You make everyone who knows you so proud!

Brooke is coached by
Huge thank you to for fantastic meet day coaching and for another great event.

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Congratulations to -93kg Open Male

230kg - 20kg PB on squat, matching the current National record
152.5kg Bench Press
250kg Deadlift - after 265kg got 2 white lights but was overturned by the jury
632.5kg - His best total to date, on the international platform - congratulations!

Muzammil has lifted his best squat, bench and deadlift each, across 3 different competitions. When he puts his best lifts together on the same day, that is going to be one incredible total 👀

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Congratulations who competed in the -84kg Open Female class, bringing home 4x Silver Medals for Fiji

140kg - new National record, huge PB squat
67.5kg - matched her current PB and national record
140kg deadlift - after her 150kg got 2 white lights but was overturned by the jury
150kg matches the current National record.

Huge congrats to Beth - her first international and she performed her best ever under pressure!

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went 3/3 to win Gold🥇in the M2 -76kg Bench Press competition. She then jumped on a plane and competed days after in an international CrossFit competition, and shortly after that at CrossFit Nationals.

Huge congrats to our hybrid athlete - we honestly don’t know how you do it but you inspire us with your get it done attitude!

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Congratulations to .framefitness who won silver🥈in the -84kg Bench Press competition.

It’s been an incredible competition year for Amanda, securing medals at both her internationals; bronze at Asia Africa Pacific Champs for deadlift and silver for bench press. Will next year be the year of squats?! Stay tuned 😜

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Congratulations to who won the -69kg M1 class in 3-lift🥇setting a host of new records despite being sick.

178kg Squat; NZ + Oceania Record (ATPB)
95.5kg Bench Press; Oceania + Commonwealth Record
192.5kg Deadlift
466kg Total; Oceania + Commonwealth Record

Carli also competed in Bench Only, securing another gold medal🥇
She was awarded Best Overall M1 for Bench Only & her 3-lift results contributed to NZ taking out Best Masters Team.

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Congratulations to Alice Davies who took out the -69kg Sub-junior class in 3-lift🥇

132.5kg Squat
89kg Bench Press; NZ + Oceania + Commonwealth Records
152.5kg Deadlift (PB)
374kg Total; NZ Record (PB)

She further extended her bench record in the Bench Only competition, once again securing🥇with an 89.5kg bench.

Alice also won Best Overall Sub-junior and her performance contributed to NZ winning Best Overall Junior Team.

Always a pleasure coaching you Alice and an honour to share the platform with you. Looking forward to seeing you continue to excel as a Junior next year - Coach Carli

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Congratulations to our Barbell and Beyond athletes who competed at the 2025 Oceania Championships.

6 athletes, 4 representing New Zealand 🇳🇿 & 2 representing Fiji 🇫🇯. You have made us all so proud!

5 Gold Medals
2 Silver Medals (+3 discipline medals - open lifters only)
4 Best Overall Trophies

6 National Records
7 Oceania Records
4 Commonwealth Records

So many incredible performances and outstanding results 🤩
Individual meet recaps coming next.