Aimee Lee
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GREGCEPTION
Aimee Lee
| October 2 2011 |
Weightlifting
Steve Pan came up with the phrase "Gregception", so he gets the credit for that. This came about because Greg wrote an article titled "Improving the Clean through a Better Turnover”. I was especially interested in this article because my clean turnover ranges from really good to crazy bad. My clean grip is fairly wide. I like it there because I have a short torso and I want to get it as close to my hips as possible. It's anyone's guess really as to where my grip ends up when......
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99 Problems but Audra ain't One
Aimee Lee
| September 18 2011 |
Weightlifting
Audra Dunning was one of the first weightlifters I met at Catalyst. She was welcoming and nice from day one. Don’t take this to mean that she’s all puppy dog tails and cotton candy; she is far from it. It can be awkward when you’re the latest to join a group of people who already know one another well. But Audra made this transition easy for me. Luckily she and I are similar in the ways that matter. Regardless of how much I was lifting or how crappy my lifts looked, Audra was e......
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My First Four Months
Aimee Lee
| September 4 2011 |
Weightlifting
I started training at Catalyst Athletics with Greg Everett on April 18th, 2011. I had almost zero experience with the snatch and the clean and jerk. I played rugby for seven years and had used crossfit as a way to get rugby fit, and it worked. When I quit playing rugby I thought I'd just do crossfit, but that got boring fast. I started a "strength" program last November and discovered that I like to front squat. My crossfit coach encouraged me to try olympic lifting. The only thing I h......
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