The World University meet was my first international meet and despite all the advice I had been given, there was much that I just had to learn through experience. Over the next 7 days I am going to post the top 5 things I learned from the trip and … [Read more...]

The American Open is 4 days out. Power and Grace is taking 3 different females to the meet and I will be competing as a 77kg. For those of you who will not be around DC that weekend here’s a list of the lifters competing and what time they … [Read more...]

Thailand has lots of awesome things to offer tourists. Green curry. Warm weather in December. Everything is cheap. However the wifi may be the most unreliable thing I have ever tried to use. I have written a blog about my lifting 4 different … [Read more...]

"8 And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.n9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear.n10 And the angel … [Read more...]

Hey guys I said I'd give y'all a tentative schedule when we got one. I'm in the 69A session. In theory that session will start at 1:30PM Chang Mai time. Chang Mai is exactly 12 hours ahead of Easter Standard Time in the US. That's 12 hours ahead … [Read more...]

Today is travel day for me. It's a little hard to wrap my head around the fact that I'm going to leave at noon on Wednesday and arrive at 10 PM on Thursday and yet only be in the air 22 hours. This is my first international weightlifting trip and as … [Read more...]

This blog post is going to sound extremely elementary and yet I would bet 80% of the people reading it need to hear it daily. I always remember why people eat and drink a specific way when I begin cutting weight. For the majority of my year, I eat … [Read more...]

Well if you've been following the blog you've noticed that life has been a little crazy in the Power and Grace household. We decided to step our social media game up over this past week and create a Facebook page that will post our workouts and blogs … [Read more...]

Happy Thanksgiving! By now I hope everyone has had an extra piece of pie, more gravy on their stuffing, and eaten their bodyweight in sweet potato souffle. I especially hope that you did it with a smile on your face knowing that my cut to 69 … [Read more...]

I hope everyone is enjoying our approach to Thanksgiving. If you're following the competition blog you definitely are earning the calories that are coming on Thursday. The blog tonight is just to do a couple quick things, update you all on a couple … [Read more...]

The Power and Grace Weightlifting Training Camps are geared towards both coaches andathletes of all levels. It’s common knowledge that efficiency of movement and precision are key elements to the successful completion of the Snatch and Clean … [Read more...]

The Power and Grace team had a great first day coaching and leading at Crossfit BDA today. What was originally designed to be a weightlifting only camp turned into a day packed full of pullups, barbells, and mopeds. With Atlanta waking up at below … [Read more...]

This past week I heard a sermon by one of the pastors that I listen to and he said something I find extremely profound. He said, regardless of your intentions or inactivity, you are being discipled. What he meant was no matter our hearts or minds we … [Read more...]

Every month I reference Coach Harvey Newton's newsletter that comes to my inbox. There are few weightlifting coaches in this country who have influenced by knowledge of the lifts as much as Coach Newton. Every month his newsletter is incredibly right … [Read more...]

Today I noticed something pretty significant in working with my high school athletes at King's Ridge. We were doing a complex with two cleans followed by five front squats. Where most of us could barely get through four sets of that an 80% they were … [Read more...]