Bethnal Green Weight Lifting Club

BETHNAL GREEN WEIGHTLIFTING CLUB

2012-12-20T13:46:00.000-08:00

This is a new website for a very traditional and long established Weight Lifting club situated in the very heart of Bethnal Green, East London, England (UK)

The club is based at 229 Bethnal Green Road, E2 6AB, and is part of the adult education college.

Access to this club is through the adult education services of Tower Hamlets. Basically you join an evening adult education course at a discounted and funded rate. You pay up front for a 10 week course

Heres the link to the learning ladder website.

If you want to check out the venue, staff, facilities, or ask some questions, you can pop down to the gym, thats in the grounds of the Bethnal Green Centre : try evening times, 6.30 to 7.30pm, Monday to Thursday

You have discovered your doorway to learning how to perform the Olympic Lifts ( the Clean and Jerk and The Snatch) and the Power Lifts ( Deadlift, Squat and Bench Press).

These are recognised sports which gives the added opportunity of competing if you want to.

The coaching staff have an impressive list of both personal successes and success in the people they have trained.

We have started posting some great videos on you tube. You can click here to see them

summer Term

2009-07-31T10:21:00.000-07:00

Don't wait too long. spaces at Bethnal Green weightlifting club go fast: don't be disappointed, get your course booked asap.

Also, its a matter of funding. Its easier to get more courses if the present courses are booked up nice and early.

Taking OFF

2009-04-30T08:36:00.000-07:00

Fantastic to pop down to the gym today and seeing loads of new people getting skilled up on the Olympic lifts.

A big hello to the guys from Fitness First Islington who were doing a great job; there must be a few potential national champions hidding among that lot

its the new term

2009-04-22T07:12:00.001-07:00

Well its your time to up at bethnal Green training to improve your lifts. Make sure you have signed on to this term, and get training.

See you there

Mens Fitness is out

2009-02-24T09:55:00.000-08:00

The April issue of mens fitness is out with a feature on the Bethnal Green Club.

Denise video

2009-02-22T06:16:00.000-08:00

I found this super you tube video by superstar Denise

Inside the Bethnal Green Weightlifting Club

2009-01-09T14:10:00.000-08:00

A few internal pictures of the Gym

a visit from the photographers

2009-01-03T03:07:00.000-08:00

Pat's back makes it into the big time.

Happy New Year

2008-12-31T04:55:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year.

some demos from Abroad

2008-12-27T12:43:00.000-08:00

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Happy Christmas

2008-12-25T11:27:00.000-08:00

yaaaya

Happy Christmas

Axx

Shoes and masters

2008-12-23T07:53:00.000-08:00

If you are hunting for Olympic Weightlifting shoes, click on this box and visit holdall. Cheapest I could find ( and they will pay us a commission!)

For UK Master lifters ( 35 Plus, but I'm really 21 you know) here are the 2009 Qualifying target totals. See you at Crystal palace for the Southerns in February. Thanks to BWLA for organizing these competitions.

age	35-39	44	49	54	59	64	69	74	79	80
56kg	130	125	112	107	95	82	72	57	55	55
62kg	142	137	125	120	105	90	80	62	55	55
69kg	155	147	137	132	115	100	87	67	60	55
77kg	170	162	147	142	122	107	95	72	65	60
85	180	170	157	150	130	115	102	77	70	65
94	190	180	165	157	137	120	107	180	72	67
105	197	187	172	165	142	125	110	85	77	70
105+	205	195	180	170	147	130	115	90	80	72

Olympic Weightlifting

Arthur Drechsler, author of The Weightlifting Encyclopedia (the single most important book ever written on Olympic weightlifting), hit the nail on the head when he wrote of the unique value of the Olympic lifts for athletes. Drechsler listed eight benefits unavailable to those using machines (1):

1. Practicing the (Olympic) lifts [the snatch and the clean-and- jerk as well as related lifting techniques] teaches an athlete how to explode.
2. Practicing proper technique in the Olympic lifts teaches an athlete to apply force with his or her muscle groups in the proper sequences.
3. In mastering the Olympic lifts, the athlete learns how to accelerate objects under varying degrees of resistance.
4. The athlete learns to receive force from another moving body effectively, and becomes conditioned to accept such forces.
5. The athlete learns to move effectively from an eccentric to concentric muscle action.
6. The actual movements performed while executing the Olympic lifts are among the most common and fundamental in sports.
7. Practicing the Olympic lifts trains an athlete's explosive capabilities, and the lifts themselves measure the effectiveness of the athlete in generating explosive power to a greater degree than most other exercises they can practice.
8. The Olympic lifts are simply fun to do.

how to Join

2008-12-23T07:09:00.000-08:00

JOINING THE CLUB

Access to this club is through the adult education services of Tower Hamlets.Basically you join an evening adult education course at a discounted and funded rate.

Heres the link to the learning ladder website

If you want to check out the venue, staff, facilities, or ask some questions, you can pop down to the gym, thats in the grounds of the Bethnal Green Centre : try evening times, 6.30 to 7.30pm, Monday to Thursday, but the facility will be open erratically over christmas

Have you signed up for the new term?

2008-12-22T05:30:00.000-08:00

If you want to learn how to hump heavy weights, this is the club for you:

get strong, get to this club:

Most gyms cannot even begin tyo teach you what we can:

If the credit crunch makes spending £60 every month on a gym membership too expensive, sign up for a £40 a term and get some real skills and fitness.

Power and the Olympic lifts are the newly re-discovered "hot" moves. Impress your friends with how much you can deadlift and wow them with your snatch and Clean and Jerk.

Look further down for the link to the learning ladder.

we have leading teachers and our membership consists of Men and Women, olympic and power lifters, athletes and some leading crossfitters.

Happy CHristmas,

Competition on Saturday

2008-12-18T13:04:00.000-08:00

Good luck to everyone competing this Saturday at the club competition.

Weigh-in 9-10am, 1st lift 11am

Greater London Open Dec 2008

2008-12-14T11:57:00.000-08:00

The greater London Open Olympic WeightLifting Championships were on saturday at Crystal Palace, and , whilst I dont have the full results, Im delighted to report that our very own Foz came second in the 69 to 77kg category with a total of 190kg ( and thats inspite of dropping a few cleans). There's loads more to come from this rising star.

In the meantime keep your eyes out for more results, and I hope you are all signed up for next saturdays internal club competition

BIORHYTHMS????

2008-12-09T08:11:00.000-08:00

I was having a chat with Pat ( one of the Coaches) about "Periodization" the idea of advance planning of workouts to produce the best performances. Its frequently presented as a science, when it could be an art?

One of the arts used by some planners is a predictive method called Biorhythms, which time hard work outs with upsurges in your performance.

use the link below to find the highs of your physical cycle and see if these rhythms work or not

this is not a recommendation: merely an experiment

Denises competition snatch

2008-11-09T13:07:00.000-08:00

Sorry for turning the camera sideways, but here is Denise "nailing that Snatch"

( Nov 1st 2008 Competition against Germany at Bethnal Green)

International Competition 1st November 2008

2008-10-31T05:02:00.000-07:00

Saturday 1st November 2008 is an exciting date in the Bethnal Green weightlifting calender as some of their finest will be matched off against a German team in the Bethanl Green Gym.

Good Luck, and thanks to the helpers, the refs and the coaches who made this all possible. Watch out for "pics and clips"

JOINING THE CLUB

2008-10-19T13:24:00.000-07:00

Access to this club is through the adult education services of Tower Hamlets.

Basically you join an evening adult education course at a discounted and funded rate.

Heres the link to the learning ladder website

If you want to check out the venue, staff, facilities, or ask some questions, you can pop down to the gym, thats in the grounds of the Bethnal Green Centre : try evening times, 6.30 to 7.30pm, Monday to Thursday.

recent competition success

2008-10-15T14:18:00.001-07:00

heres Ben lifting at a recent competition