Al Myers
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Geez Ben, I can’t believe I missed that! It has now been corrected in the blog.
I’m feeling really bad now, especially since that slip up and about forgetting you during the awards presentation after the grip meet!
The Dino Gym turned in 8 entries for the Postal Championships! I want to thank all those members that showed up last Sunday to get their lifts in for this event. Participation is what keeps the Postal Series going!!!
Merry Christmas to everyone! Its ok if you go up a weightclass or two over the next few days.. let that be your Christmas present to yourself.
Have fun today!! I can’t wait to hear how it went, and if Leroy was able to improve his well being.
hey ET, I think you got your Schmidts mixed up!! haha
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Dan, First of all I want to thank you for presenting this information to us on the forum. It’s clearly something you have spent some time thinking about and analyzing. I 100% agree with your comments on a study and whether it is statistical significant or not. I don’t know much about statistics, and absolutely nothing about how to make the calculation of statistical significance, but I do remember from college the value of it’s importance in evaluating any study. Also- sometimes big study numbers don’t always give the SI to be credible (like this one with close to 50k data points). Its a shame this one really doesn’t give us a scientific answer to this debate (much the same as the self-study I did several years ago). Al
John, Again a BIG THANKS for making this improvement to the USAWA Record List. I know many will really appreciate it. Al
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Dan, Years ago when I looked at this amongst USAWA lifts (based on records in each age group, and in lifts that had been contested the most so there would be the most data), it showed losses beyond the 1 percent per year after 40. Now it does look like from what you presented here it is not as much, but it does still show close to a 10 percent loss between the under 40 groups to the over 50 groups. So I guess I’m still a little confused why you think age correction formulas are all “fictional” as even the numbers you just presented support it?
Also – I’m assuming the lifts listed above are in KGS? If not, I would have to question the data collected as those numbers seem too low if they are in pounds, and would have had to been collected in novice competitions which would not equate to trained lifters in regards to stength losses per year.
Dan, What did this study show the strength loss to be (in percentages) after the age of 50? Very curious if it is around the 1% per year that the USAWA uses. Al
ET –
Forgot to mention earlier – but I have added to my list to propose amending the “butt paper” rule to the EB before the next meeting.Good points John
One thing I do want to say is that I do know now that both the USAWA and the IAWAUK would like to contest the lifts under the same rules. That hasn’t always been the case in the past.
Another big issue with unifying the rule book is what to do with all the lifts that the USAWA has that the IAWAUK doesn’t have? Do we just get rid of them? or do we still keep them, thus having a different list of official lifts than a new developed IAWA rulebook would have?
However, the IAWAUK has a few official lifts that the USAWA doesn’t have. Most USAWA members are not aware of this. Theres close to 10 I think. One of these IAWAUK lifts my dad and I are thinking of doing at the Gold Cup, the Rim Lift. (that is if I can talk him into it, as this will be the “grudge match” between us . He’s bested me once, and I’ve beat him once. this year will be final year of the best of three!)
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