Bad As III

The Bad As III Annual Women’s Lifting Competition will be held on Saturday June 2nd 2012.

The Bad As Women’s Lifting competition is here to encourage participation in weightlifting by women from any sporting background. Lifting heavy weights is beneficial for many reasons, not least of which is they make you Bad As. Register HERE!

As in the past 2 years, this competition is open to any female lifter aged 18 and over. We will recognize the top 3 max lifters per kilo of body weight. We will need your lift start weights on the day of the competition. Please be prepared and come with your lift start weights for Back Squat, Bench Press and Ground to Overhead. Rules for each lift are explained below. This year there will also be a Strongwoman CrossFit style workout added to the competition. This will be performed as a floater, that is you sign up at registration for when you want to perform the workout during the morning. First in first served to reserve your time spot.

Registration is at MaD CrossFit, 58 Victoria Street, Petone, Lower Hutt and starts at 8am. Lifting will begin at 9am.  Your spot will be reserved upon receipt of payment. There are a maximum of 50 spots. Spectators are Free. Please email donna@madcrossfit.com with questions. Each competitor will receive a commemorative t-shirt, remaining funds will be donated to winners NZ charity of choice.

Participants must register and pay online HERE! Registration will be closed May 25th or when we reach 50 participants.

T-Shirt sizing chart is HERE!

PDF of the poster to print is HERE!

FOR THE BOYS

So you don’t feel left out that just the ladies get to throw down, we will be holding a CrossFit workout for the boys following the women’s event. Starting at approximately 1pm, please register HERE so that we can plan accordingly.

RULES FOR THE LIFTS

Three attempts are permitted for each lift.

Squat

The starting position must be completely upright, with the knees and the hips fully extended and with the chest up. The hips are lowered until the top surfaces of both of the legs at the hip joint are lower than the knees, and then the bar is lifted back up. The bottom position is identified by A) the apex of the crease in the shorts formed as the hips are lowered, B) the surface of the top of the patella, C) the plane formed by a straight line between the two, and D) the dipping of the hip end of that plane below horizontal. The finish position is the same as the starting position, and the athlete must return to it before the bar is racked. When the finish position is secure, the bar must be walked back into the rack and successfully replaced.

Any halt in the upward motion of the whole bar, identified at its position on the back rather than at its ends, constitutes a missed attempt, as does any change in position of the feet against the floor during the squat. Any deliberate attempt to lower the bar counts as an attempt.  The squat will be done in the cage and no spotters will be necessary.

Bench Press

Spotter will assist lifter in getting the bar out of the rack. The spotter will guide the bar over mid chest. There may be communication with your spotter to signal you are ready. The lifter must touch the bar to the chest, then move the bar back up to full lock out position (elbows in full extension). The spotter will then assist to get the bar back in rack position. If the bar touches the rack before the spotter grabs it, there is no lift.

The butt must be in contact with the bench and the feet must be on the ground at all times.

Ground to Overhead (aka Clean and Jerk)

Two hand overhead, anyhow. The most efficient way to accomplish this will be with a clean and jerk. You must lift the barbell from the ground to overhead and finish in a stable, unmoving, locked out position. The athlete’s elbows, shoulders, hips and knees must be locked out and unmoving, and the athlete must wait until the judge gives the audible and visual cue to lower the weight. The bar must be dropped in a controlled manner, with the athlete’s hands on the bar past the hips, for the lift to count.

We are not using USAW or NZWL rules, and press outs, while inefficient; will not be cause for a “no lift”. That’s why we aren’t calling it the Clean and Jerk. 

STRONGWOMAN WORKOUT

This one is all about moving as much weight as you can, as fast as you can. There will be 4 stations, you will have 60 seconds at each station to score as many reps as possible with the weight you choose. At the end of the 4 minutes your score in reps at each station multiplied by the weight you moved at each station, will be divided by your bodyweight. Simply put that equals:

Questions?

Please email donna@madcrossfit.com with questions.

Thanks to our sponsors for this years event, please show them the same support they are giving us.