Madtown Sends 3 Area Kids to USA Weightlifting's National Youth Championship

2024-11-22 09:26:39 Sports

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Today, Madtown Weightlifting Club (WLC) announced that three of their youth program standout athletes have qualified for and are attending USA Weightlifting's National Youth Championships in Austin, Texas this June 23rd to 26th, 2016.

We couldn't be more proud of all three of these athletes and the strides they have made this year,'? said Keysha Benzing, owner of CrossFit MadTown and head coach of the Madtown Weightlifting Clubs Youth Program. There is a fire inside these kids that will not be easily quenched, they are going to be bringing a lot of intensity to Austin and I cannot wait to see all that they can accomplish.

Weightlifting, or the sport more commonly know as Olympic weightlifting, is an athletic discipline in the modern Olympic programme in which the athlete attempts a maximum-weight in a single lift of a barbell loaded with weighted plates.

There are two competition lifts, in order they are the snatch, and the clean and jerk. Each weightlifter receives three attempts in each, and the combined total of the highest two successful lifts determines the overall result within a bodyweight category. Bodyweight categories are different for women and men and age groups.

These weightlifting tests aspects of the human explosive strength; the lifts are therefore executed fasterand with more mobility and a greater range of motionthan other strength movements.

Properly executed, the snatch and the clean and jerk are both dynamic and explosive while appearing graceful, often given the description as the gymnastics of strength training.

The USA Weightlifting National Youth Championships is the premiere weightlifting event in the Nation for athletes aged 17 years old and younger. The Madison areas own Michael Parente, age 13 is competing in the 62kg weight class, Sitori Tanin age 13 - 58kg weight class, and Rian Wells, age 12 44kg weight class, all met and exceeded the entry standards in order to qualify for the youth national championships.

The athletes qualified for Nationals during the WLC State Championship #20 April 23-24, 2016 hosted by MadTown WLC/CrossFit MadTown.

Madtown Weightlifting Club practices out of the CrossFit Madtown complex owned and operated in Middleton, Wisconsin by Skipp and Keysha Benzing. As standout athletes and coaches they have helped countless people of all athletic levels, with a focus on Madisons youth, turn their respective fitness and weightlifting goals into reality.

CrossFit Madtown offers two sessions for [summer camp](http://crossfitmadtown.com/summercamp-2016). Each session consists of five weeks, session one is June 13 - July 15th and session two is between July 18 - August 19th. There are sessions for all athletes: Youth camps for development, high school camps for strength and power training, conditioning training camps for speed development and plyometrics, agility, core, conditioning training (PAACT). And they offer sport specific training camps for high school fall sports volleyball, football, and cross country.