IRON BROMANCE – Barbell Competition || February 4
Saturday Feb. 4 – 8am – 7pm
Hosted by CrossFit Austin, this year’s Iron Bromance is an Olympic style weightlifting based competition for those who love the barbell. It’s the only barbell competition intended to test both the strength and muscular endurance capacities of an athlete. Brought to you by Texas Barbell and Weightlifting Wise you KNOW there will be lots of heavy lifting combined with follow up barbell challenges.
Format: In weightlifting competition there are typically weight classes, and following suit, the Iron Bromance will be divided into three weight classes for each gender category. There will be weigh-ins for each of the three weight classes prior to the beginning of the competition.
Women’s Lightweight – 135 lbs and under
Women’s Middleweight – 136 lbs – 165 lbs
Women’s Heavyweight – 166 lbs and over
Men’s Lightweight- 175 lbs and under
Men’s Middleweight- 176 – 205 lbs
Men’s Heavyweight – 206 lbs and over
The Events: There will be 3 workouts, one for each of the major Olympic weightlifting style movements: Snatch, Clean, and Jerk. Each heavy lifting event will be coupled with a barbell challenge which serves as a muscular endurance test.
Workout 1: Each athlete will be given 8 minutes to find a 1RM in the snatch. ANY snatch variation is acceptable. The movement must be completed within the 8×8 perimeter marked off. The athlete will have a 2 minute rest in which time he/she must load their bar to 50% of the max snatch they just achieved. The athlete will then be signaled to start part 2 of the first workout. The athlete must take the bar from the ground to overhead and the perform as many overhead squats in the 1 minute time allowed for the challenge.
Score for workout 1: (snatch max x 5) + (50% snatch x number of reps of overhead squats completed in one minute)
Workout 2: Each athlete will be given 8 minutes to find a 1RM in the clean. ANY clean variation is acceptable. The movement must be completed within the 8×8 perimeter marked off. The athlete will have a 2 minute rest. The athlete will then be signaled to start part 2 of the second workout which is max reps deadlifts in 30 seconds performed with the 1 rep max clean just achieved.
Score for workout 2: (clean max x 4) + (number of reps of deadlifts completed with clean max in 30 seconds)
Workout 3: Each athlete will be given 8 minutes to find a 1RM in the jerk from the rack. ANY jerk variation is acceptable. The movement must be completed within the 8×8 perimeter marked off. The athlete will have a 2 minute rest in which time he/she must load their bar to 50% of the max jerk they just achieved. The athlete will then be signaled to start part 2 of the third workout. The athlete must take the bar from the ground to the chest and the perform as many push presses or presses from the chest in the 1 minute time allowed for the challenge.
Score for workout 3: (jerk max x 3) + (50% jerk x number of reps of push press/press completed in one minute)
Who wins? The person who lifts the most total tonnage all events combined. There will be a cash award for the winner of each of three weight class categories for each gender.
There will additionally be prizes for the strength tests portions as well as the muscular endurance portions.