DCU Elite GYM

DL Saint

Hi,

Next year I am hoping to study Therapy & Training Athletic at DCU and I was wondering if I would get to use the elite gym or would I have to use the standard one?

billybigunz

If you can pass 4/5 of the Elite category standards in these lifts then you will be allowed access.

http://www.exrx.net/Testing/WeightLifting/StrengthStandards.htm

Scuba Ste

DL Saint wrote: »

Hi,

Next year I am hoping to study Therapy & Training Athletic at DCU and I was wondering if I would get to use the elite gym or would I have to use the standard one?

You have to be on the GAA team or similar to use it, otherwise its just the standard gym where you cant squat. Crap.

On the other hand theres an olympic wieghtlifting club where you can squat. And snatch and clean and jerk.

_JOE_

billybigunz wrote: »

If you can pass 4/5 of the Elite category standards in these lifts then you will be allowed access.

http://www.exrx.net/Testing/WeightLifting/StrengthStandards.htm

If they're the standards, then i'd expect there are very very few in the club...

Let me give you an example putting my stats into the above:

Bench: Elite Standard: 155kg
Press: Elite Standard: 98kg
Squat: Elite Standard: 217kg
Deadlift:Elite Standard: 248kg

I'd be 82kg, and have somewhat decent lifts but would not be able to use the facilities based on the above lifts.
In fact, at those levels, (not just the above, the elite standard as against BW) i'd doubt if many of the top powerlifters would be able to pass this threshold.
Is it therefore just a barrier to keep the facility in the hands of the likes of the GAA players?

Scuba Ste

_JOE_ wrote: »

If they're the standards, then i'd expect there are very very few in the club...

Let me give you an example putting my stats into the above:

Bench: Elite Standard: 155kg
Press: Elite Standard: 98kg
Squat: Elite Standard: 217kg
Deadlift:Elite Standard: 248kg

I'd be 82kg, and have somewhat decent lifts but would not be able to use the facilities based on the above lifts.
In fact, at those levels, (not just the above, the elite standard as against BW) i'd doubt if many of the top powerlifters would be able to pass this threshold.
Is it therefore just a barrier to keep the facility in the hands of the likes of the GAA players?

I think he jests, theres no standard to use it other being willing to chance your arm.

_JOE_

Scuba Ste wrote: »

I think he jests, theres no standard to use it other being willing to chance your arm.

Oh :eek: ...

billybigunz

Sorry Joe

You could always head down with those sheets and when refused tell them how most of the GAA team would come short of novice levels.

DL Saint

Scuba Ste wrote: »

You have to be on the GAA team or similar to use it, otherwise its just the standard gym where you cant squat. Crap.

On the other hand theres an olympic wieghtlifting club where you can squat. And snatch and clean and jerk.

I couldn't find anything about that club on the DCU site, do they have a website?

squod

DL Saint wrote: »

I couldn't find anything about that club on the DCU site, do they have a website?

Here.

http://www.thecollegeview.com/2010/03/09/weightlifting-makes-its-dcu-debut/

upstairs in the Albert College.”

They didn't even have running water in the albert college last time I saw the place.
Miraculous change required there like.

An Citeog

DL Saint wrote: »

I couldn't find anything about that club on the DCU site, do they have a website?

Here's their Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dublin-Ireland/DCU-Weightlifting/382422777984?ref=ts

Scuba Ste

squod wrote: »

They didn't even have running water in the albert college last time I saw the place.
Miraculous change required there like.

Its in good shape now, theres still some building work going on but no more than most of the rest of the college.

In the next week or so the club should be getting some platforms and new bars and bumper plates, probably better equipped than the gym by then.