The APF/AAPF Georgia State Powerlifting Championship

On Saturday Todd competed in the APF/AAPF Georgia State Powerlifting Championship. He took first place in his weight class and he broke a National Record for the Bench Press event, both in the AAPF(Amateur American Powerlifting Federation-this is a drug free federation). This is the first time he has ever competed in a full meet (squatting, benching and dead lifting). He did really well!!

His final squat was 760lbs- here is a video of the squat...



Three of the girls wearing their Growler's Gym shirts to show support for their daddy! I wished I had a onesie made for Mikayla- how cute that would have been!
This is a video of Todd bench pressing 705lbs!! His opening lift was 672lbs which was the first National Record he broke, then broke it again by benching 705lbs!



Mikayla did really well. As you can here in the video's there was heavy metal music blaring the whole day and people screaming, weights dropping, but some how she managed to take two naps while we were there?!
This is a video of Todd dead lifting 611lbs. This video makes us all laugh because Jon G. totally smacks Todd to get him "pumped" up. They all totally "cheer" one another on to get the weight up.


We were there from around 11 until 4:30- the girls did so well. There is a lot of time just sitting around waiting as each competitor lifts. So the girls did a lot of coloring then cheered their daddy on when it was his turn.
Here is Todd with Jon getting his first place trophy. Jon is the one who first told Todd about powerlifting and has played a major role in instructing and coaching Todd in powerlifting.