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US Olympic lifting champion Donny Shankle is coming to Formosa Fitness for a full-day seminar on Sept. 28.

Here’s a look at some of his lifting:

And here are the complete seminar contents:
The seminar will cover the elements of becoming the best weightlifter you can be from the physical to the mental. At the end of the seminar, you will learn (among other things) the Twelve Musts to apply to your lifting technique, proper progressions for the Snatch and Clean & Jerk and how to teach them yourself, principles to achieve optimum performance, subordinate exercises for variation and its importance, how to train and design your own program for your personal record results, how to prepare for a competition, and the psychology of a weightlifter. The psychology is commonly forgotten in seminars but it is important to learn how to get out of your head, lift with authority, and learn how to win. The seminar will be a combination of lecture and story telling, demonstrations, hands on practice for technique and PR attempts, individual coaching, and video analysis of the best in action (subject to equipment availability).

All attendees must bring a pair of weightlifting shoes and be able to do an over head squat to full depth (hips below knees).

1) Style and Musts

Your own style is important when you lift but why?
Learn all twelve musts to apply to your technique
The importance of the Back Squat and its three fundamentals
Understanding the importance of Line of Balance and Center of Gravity

2) The Snatch Progression

Demonstration (SN)
Learn and be able to teach the progression
Hands on practice and individual coaching

3) Speed, Time, Comfort Zones, and S.A.I.D.

Short lecture on the importance of all concepts and how they apply to your training

4) The Jerk Progression

Learn the split reference points
Learn and be able to teach the progression
Hands on practice and individual coaching

5) What is weightlifting?

How to become a professional
Various stories
The beginning of understanding principle

6) The Clean Progression

Demonstration (C&J)
Learn and be able to teach the progression
Put the C&J together
Hands on practice and individual coaching

7) Training session

Learn the training principles to achieve optimum performance
Learn how to choose attempts
Attempt new SN and C&J personal records w/ individual coaching

8) Subordinate Exercises (sub ex’s)

Learn fifteen additional exercises to help you understand the importance of variation
Types of sub ex’s and classes

9) How to Train

Learn the only program
Lecture on Focus and Principle and why they are important
Template Design
How to devise your own program to achieve results long term
How to prepare for competition
See examples

10) Psychology

How to get out of your head
How to lift with authority
Learn all commands and corresponding virtues behind the pull
Learn how to achieve gold

11) Video Analysis (subject to equipment availability)

See the best in action and what they do right

12) Q&A

The price is only NT9000 and all of the proceeds go to support Donny’s quest to be in the 2016 Olympics!
If this sounds like something you’d like to attend, we are accepting payment for spots now until Aug. 31st. you can sign up at the link below (in Chinese) or pay at the front desk at Formosa Fitness. Thanks!
https://www.facebook.com/events/675943342489379/

I’ve given certs now in Taizhong and Tainan and I’m ready to do more! We need a minimum of five people and you’ll need kettlebells to do the cert — 16kg for men, and 8 and 12kg for the ladies. We can announce the kettlebell cert on our page here and perhaps get others to attend, adding some publicity for your gym, yoga studio, or personal training studio.
We’ve certified 200 trainers now and we’re looking to add happy, enthusiastic people like you to that group. So if this is something you’re interested in doing, let us know and we can schedule it! Thanks!

We had our second annual Tactical Strength Challenge last week and it was a great success. Lots of guys and gals that are into serious training and getting real results showed what they’ve worked for. Lots of PRs set — one young guy pulled a 30kg PR on deadlift, another guy did 21 perfect pullups in a row, another guy snatched the 32kg kettlebell 107 times this year after snatching the 24kg 124 times last year (huge improvement), and we got an Olympic lifting instructor from down south that deadlifted nearly everything we had in the gym. We had a great time and welcome anyone interested in competing to come join us next year!

Here’s what they look like:

These things are super strong and heavy. They’ll stand up to any abuse you put them through. I really only need one pair so we’re letting these go at cost: NT4000. I’m not making any money on this deal, just looking for these to go to someone that will use the hell out of them. Thing is, they can’t be shipped cause they’re too heavy. If you guys want them, you’d have to pick them up at my gym in Taipei but we’re open 7 days a week. If interested, please contact the gym. Thanks!

I was very happy to get this for the gym. I’ve been wanting this stuff for a long time so when I got the chance, I grabbed it. See, I won’t make any extra money because of it but I just want us to have cool toys in the gym that I enjoy using, too. It’s about that, too. So when I get a chance to get us something nice, I do it. Hope you enjoy using it as much as I will!