Topic: Please Introduce Yourself

[lillianreptilian]

Name: Lillian
Age: 29
Gender: F
Occupation: Grad student, hopefully soon to be something else
Location: Twin Cities, MN
Team: Twin City Barbell
How did you get started/involved in weightlifting?: Began weight training a year ago to get fit, found a great WL gym in Rochester, MN (SWSC) and gave it a try, got addicted
Years involved in weightlifting: almost 1 yr
Athletic achievements: becoming an athlete for the first time in my life and sticking with it
Role in weightlifting: newb?
Favorite weightlifter: Cao Lei
Interests other than weightlifting: cooking, internetting, relaxing
Other information you would like to share: I have a food blog here: http://extraschmaltz.blogspot.com/

Can't make it to the gym tonight, so I figured I may as well post here instead ;)

[dabrock]

Name: David
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Occupation: Communications Engineer
Location: Ottawa
Team: None
How did you get started/involved in weightlifting?: Just starting out
Years involved in weightlifting: 0

Just getting started and looking to get some real weight above my head soon!

[Carl.C]

Name: Carl Chia

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Occupation: Gym Trainer

Location: Singapore

How did you get started/involved in weightlifting?: Wanted to become stronger and more powerful for football, but ended up falling in love with Weightlifting.

Years involved in weightlifting: Since April 2008

Role in weightlifting: Lifter and aspiring coach!

Favorite weightlifter: Lu Yong

Interests other than weightlifting: Football (real football. Not NFL which shouldn't be named football seriously)

Other information you would like to share: My youtube channel with training clips of myself, my coach and fellow lifters at the Singapore Weightlifting Federation http://www.youtube.com/user/SGWeightlifting and my blog www.weightliftingsingapore.wordpress.com which serves more as a personal diary.

[kaptain.kayak]

Name: Andrew

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Occupation: Grad Student (Mathematics)

Location: Ontario, Canada

How did you get started/involved in weightlifting?: They took the bumper plates out of my university gym and I had to join the weightlifting club to get access to them!

Years involved in weightlifting: Just under a year

Role in weightlifting: Lifter

Favorite weightlifter: pyrros dimas

Interests other than weightlifting: Mathematics, Music, Ultimate Frisbee

[Mike Frost]

Mike Frost

Nova Scotia, Canada

23 years old

Municiple Government labourer

Got my start in weightlifting when I stubled upon several videos of superheavyweight lifters such as Shane Hamman, Hossein Rezazedeh, Jabeer Salem, and Chemerkin. I previously was a powerlifter and trained for strongman, however I am 100% committed to the style of weightlifting.

Its been roughly 2 years on and off weightlifting... I broke my ankle and suffered other injurys which put me out of commission so I havnt made any significant gains yet, but i hope this site can change that!

Lifter....someday perhaps coach lol

Other interests I have are, atheism, science, horror movies, vinyl records, hiphop/jazz/soul/rock music, international foods, my girlfriend and family, finding people with similar passions as mine.

[kaptain.kayak]

Do many people lift in Nova Scotia? Where do you train?

(I'm from Newfoundland and in Toronto for School)

[JeffV]

Name: Jeff V
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Occupation: Graduate student
Location: Guelph, Ontario
Team: no local teams(?)
How did you get started/involved in weightlifting?: natural progression from powerlifting - makes you more athletically powerful!
Years involved in weightlifting: 2-3 years; however, only got serious this last year
Role in weightlifting: lifter, but i'd like to start coaching
Favorite weightlifter: too many
Interests other than weightlifting: interested in nutrition/exercise/metabolism - esp. skeletal muscle metabolism. Trying to learn as much as i can about the sport of WL

Other information you would like to share: most recent maxes/lifts - C&J: 140 - Snatch 95kg.

[C.Ljungberg]

Name: Christoffer Ljungberg
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Occupation: Student
Location: Uppsala, Sweden
How did you get started/involved in weightlifting?: A friend introduced me to it
Years involved in weightlifting: 9 months
Athletic achievements: Nothing special
Role in weightlifting: Lifter
Favorite weightlifter: Evgeny Chigishev
Interests other than weightlifting: Watching football
Other information you would like to share: My best snatch is 81 kg and my best clean and jerk is 100 kg.