Schemanski Lifts

by Atomic Athletic on Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 5:01pm

Legends don't happen over night.  In the world of weightlifting, the legends are built one lift at a time.  With Norbert Schemanski, you can actually read about those legendary lifts in the book about him, but have you ever tried doing some of those lifts?  He did a lot more than just the competitive 3 old Olympic Lifts.

  

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As we get ready for the Atomic Athletic Tractor Pull Weekend USAWA Meet, the question of the next event starts getting fired at us.  “Rog, this is going to be really cool, but what do you have up your sleeve next?”

  

I am thinking about putting on a Schemanski meet.

  

Everyone knows that he was an Olympic weightlifter, but there are a number of lifts he also did in training.  Here are some of the lifts I am considering:

  

Thick Bar Clean & Jerk

Clean & Press

Snatch From The Hang

Crucifix

Touch & Go Bench

Continental Clean

  

The real limiting factor is that I won't put on a meet that has more than four lifts.  It just takes too long.  I would actually prefer to do no more than three lifts.  So which ones do we do and are there more options that I am really missing?  I would love to hear from you on our Facebook page.  It would be a nice interactive discussion.

  

Here is one of my favorite serious Olympic weightlifting bars, manufactured by Iron Grip, with input from me.  In fact, I own the last pre-production proto-type.  It is a nice needle bearing piece.

  

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Live Strong,

Roger LaPointe