
“Maybe the third time will be the charm,” he said. All that’s left is that elusive state crown. Villalobos already has secured Five Star Conference, district and regional titles. He has competed in Junior Olympic, Junior National and Sunshine State events, but has put all that on hold for the high school season.Īll of his hard work has paid dividends. “I got way better at lifting than football, so now I just do weights,” he said. He said he took to the sport instantly, and dropped football after his freshman year. Villalobos started lifting after the eighth grade to prepare for his freshman season with the Hawks football team. “Of course, sometimes a kid comes out of nowhere and surprises you.” “I think (Piasecki) is in the 660 range, so I’d be surprised if it doesn’t come down to those two and who makes their last lift,” Randow said. Randow said the state title should come down to Villalobos and Piasecki. Cloud’s Josh Piasecki, who won the Region 6-2A meet with a 325-320-645. Villalobos captured the 169 regional crown with a 340-325-665. Wilson won state last season with a 320-330-650, a total Villalobos beat this season in winning the Region 4-2A meet. “But that fueled (Villalobos) and he didn’t want to lose again this year.” It may look like there are only two main lifts in Olympic lifting, but these two moves actually encompass numerous other lifts. “With what he was lifting last year in some years he might have won, but having (New Smyrna Beach’s) Cody Wilson in there, it was hard to compete,” Spruce Creek coach Mike Randow said. Creatine and explosive exercise like the Olympic lifts are a match made in gains heaven. Powerlifters 1st Olympic Lifting Meet Report ZKC USA/210 WLC Lift For The Kids Weightlifting Meet - San Antonio, Texas, USA (167kg 90.7kg 193. These skills are largely covered by the Olympic lifts and as such, practicing them makes a lot of sense. As defined by CrossFit, the 10 skills of fitness are accuracy, strength, cardiovascular endurance, stamina, power, speed, coordination, flexibility, balance and agility. As soon as I started going there, I started seeing a big difference.” This discipline primarily focuses on the clean and jerk and snatch. I’ve been going there for about two months now. “Finally my math teacher introduced me to a chiropractor that specializes in nerves and stuff up in Ormond. “I tried getting a cortisone shot in my shoulder, which helped for like a week, but it didn’t fix any problems,” he said. If you would like to add your gym please e-mail.

Want to find out if there are any powerlifting gyms in your area Click here. He said he didn’t need surgery, and it wasn’t until a teacher mentioned another chiropractor that he started feeling better. 2022 USA POWERLIFTINGFALL FESTIVAL OF POWER. “My whole right side would always feel painful, so I knew there was something wrong with it.” “I had compressed nerves and before I had compressed nerves I had partially torn my rotator cuff,” said Villalobos, the top seed in the 169-pound division for Saturday’s Class 2A state tournament. Nagging pain in his right shoulder prompted him to visit a chiropractor, but he said after several trips it just wasn’t getting better. PORT ORANGE - Slade Villalobos’ senior weightlifting season at Spruce Creek was in jeopardy before it even started.
