at Ironworks Gym in Creswell, OR

Attention weightlifting enthusiasts everywhere: I am launching a video project about YOU. Check out the starter. I've been working on this for a couple of years. I invite voices from all levels in the sport. Contact me to arrange an interview or for details on how to submit your own raw clips.

Exciting news! Strength Rituals is a new website from Chip Conrad featuring his new online show - Strength Rituals. This show will interview physical culturists and spread their word to the world. Check out the video and please consider throwing a few shekels to this admirable project. Goal is to raise $10,000 in 43 days.

It's here! It's here!

Starting to collect these...

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There is nothing so sureas feeling your own strength.There is nothing as thrillingas seeing strength grow -either your own orthat of one you love.Strength is overcoming obstacles.Defeating yourself before you begin -That is weakness.

The long-sought 60KG clean and jerk! First place in masters women! Competed alongside Jim Schmitz and Chip Conrad. Hung with Butch Curry and still more awesome Bodytribers. Hit the beach after and saw the Golden Gate bridge for the first time. A great experience all the way around!

It was a good meet.

From the book Venus with Biceps

It's been a while in coming, but I'm finally starting to get the hang of it!

Great experience at the Freak Show held April 28 at Aberdeen High School in Washington. Thanks to Mike Cook for guest coaching me the day of. I overnighted and found a great little seafood place on the bay - ate two Halibut dinners the night before. The meet was combination weightlifting and powerlifting - organized, well r

Read an article a while ago arguing that training on unstable surfaces (like Bosu stuff) denies training the procioceptors and fails to train the body for the real world of stable surfaces. Can anybody help me find info on this perspective?It makes sense. Whose upper body strength would you have more faith in -

Competed in the first-ever Olympic-style weightlifting meet held in tandem with an APA powerlifting meet at Elite Performance Center in Portland. The great news is, I hit a longtime goal of a competition snatch of 45KG. I've hit it in training from time to time, and not anytime recently, so to get it at the me

Behold! New this year (2012)

Took 2nd Place in 63 KG with a 95 KG total today at this very large meet at Thrush Sports Performance Center in Sumner, WA. That's John Thrush mugging in the background in my blurry phone pic! Wish it was clearer! Impressive facility, friendly meets, lots of amazing lifters.Not my best perfo

My first wood project design.