Lindsay Taylor, Erika Buchelli, Tom Sroka, Spencer Moorman, and Jon North finish off their mid-week Olympic Weightlifting practice with some heavy squatting.

California Strength Olympic Weightlifting team members Lindsay Taylor, Tom Sroka, Spencer Moorman, Rob Blackwell, and Kevin Cornell face off to go 8 for 8 in last Friday's control day. To win, the lifter must make 4 out of 4 snatches and 4 out of 4 clean & jerks at 92.5% or 5 kilograms under their competition PR, whichever is greater.

Spencer Moorman and Tom Sroka duke it out with cleans off of the high blocks. Both athletes set PRs as Jon North, Rob Blackwell, Donny Shankle and coach Glenn Pendlay cheer them on at California Strength

Last Friday was a "control day," the day of the week when the Olympic Weightlifting athletes go heavy. The prize: $500 in cash. The challenge: make all 10 attempts at 90% of your competition weight, 5 snatches and 5 clean & jerks, with no misses. Rob Blackwell, Donny Shankle, and Jon North each took home $166. Lindsay Taylor, Spencer Moorman and Tom Sroka each missed only 1 snatch to finish 9 for 10.

Donny Shankle, Jon North, and Spencer Moorman battle it out on the high blocks while Rob Blackwell and Tom Sroka both hit PRs on the low blocks. Newcomer Erika Bucheli hits a PR snatch of 62 kilograms. Lindsay Taylor shows off her new squat jerk and her secret to teaching her daughter the Olympic lifts. Spencer discusses his lifetime chalk intake.

Keola Antolin is training for the NFL pro day, putting up heavy squats and looking very strong. Rob Blackwell shows us some interesting Olympic Weightlifting complexes. Strong man Tom Sroka, does kettle bell swings with over 200 pounds, much to the amazement of Spencer Moorman, Donny Shankle, and Glenn Pendlay. Do not miss Spencer's over the head clean.

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Big lifts and PRs http://www.californiastrength.com/videos/viewcategory/4/big-lifts-motivational-prs Highlights from last Friday's control day. Do not miss the 155kg snatch by Spencer and 205 C&J by Donny. As Donny Shankle, Jon North, Spencer Moorman, Kevin Cornell, Lindsay Taylor, Tom Sroka and Jessica West get ready to travel to Columbus OH for the 2012 USA Weightlifting National Championships and Olympic Trials March 2-4, they have been tapering this week.

Great lifts from the past few weeks as Donny Shankle, Jon North, Spencer Moorman, Kevin Cornell, Lindsay Taylor, Tom Sroka and Jessica West get ready to travel to Columbus OH for the 2012 USA Weightlifting National Championships and Olympic Trials March 2-4.

Clint McPeek, Brett Leonard, Keola Antolin, Gavin Cooper, and Kyle Wright have been at California Strength the past few months training with David Spitz and other specialists. The NFL Combine starts today in Indianapolis. Good luck, athletes!

Footage of past combine prep at http://www.californiastrength.com/videos/viewcategory/16/nfl-combine Chris Owusu, Clint McPeek, Brett Leonard, Keola Antolin, and Gavin Cooper have been at California Strength the past few months training with David Spitz and other specialists. The NFL Combine is this weekend in Indianapolis. Good luck, athletes!

The guys are getting real strong leading up to National's in March. Donny Shankle easily pulls 225 kg off the high blocks. Kevin Cornell has a PR 400 pound pull off the low blocks. Spencer Moorman, Jon North, Rob Blackwell, and Tom Sroka throw around some big weights as well.

USAW Olympic weightlifting coach Glenn Pendlay had Donny Shankle, Jon North and the rest of the California Strength team doing some creative drills last week. Introducing Erica Bucheli.

Check out our FREE lower body flexibility exercise videos: http://www.californiastrength.com/videos/viewvideo/50/cal-strength-exercises/flexibility-exercises-for-the-lower-body-in-olympic-weightlifting Kevin Cornell, weightlifting and trainer at California Strength, shows us how to stretch out the legs and avoid patellar tendonitis.

Chris Owusu trains at California Strength with David Spitz, getting ready for the NFL Scouting Combine. New guy Tom Sroka joins the team for practice. Donny Shankle, Jon North, Spencer Moorman, and Kevin Cornell put up some big weights.

Kevin Cornell, an Olympic Weightlifter and trainer at California Strength, shows us how to do some rotator cuff stretching, strength, and stability exercises.

Today, we bring you some hang cleans, push presses, snatches, muscle snatches and other lifts from December of 2011. Jon North, Donny Shankle, and Spencer Moorman never fail to impress and entertain!

Suzy Powell, an American record holder in the discus, came to California Strength recently with a couple of friends to hone her technique in the Olympic lifts. California Strength owner and coach, David Spitz, helped these track and field athletes improve their form. Now, they can safely and effectively incorporate Olympic lifting into their personal strength training programs.

Today we bring you some highlights of power cleans off of the wooden blocks. Donny Shankle, Kevin Cornell, and Jon North all put up some impressive weights.

Not the most weight Spence has ever squatted, but still an impressive reminder that he is very very strong.

Kevin Cornell shows us an exercise he likes to super-set with planks 2 to 3 days per week. The "Chinese Arches" strengthen the lower back, gluteus and hamstrings and help with core stability in the lifts.

If there were ever any doubt that Donny Shankle is simply the biggest, badest Olympic weightlifter at California Strength, this video solidly destroys it. Donny jerks 225 kg (nearly 500 pounds) from the blocks then proceeds to set a new PR in the hang clean with 200 kg (440 pounds).

Today's video gets us caught up on the activity at Cal Strength during Thanksgiving week. Donny Shankle nailed 200kg clean and jerk and nearly made 212, Kevin Cornell has returned from a minor back injury, and Jon North is up to his usual antics. Spencer Moorman proves his perfection, while Rob Blackwell and Ben show us what they got.