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  • The legendary Coffee’s Gym has a new website!
    by kara
    Posted January 22nd, 2010 at 9:40 pm

    Coffee’s Gym, the mecca of legendary Olympic Weightlifting coach and strength training guru John Coffee now has a new website CoffeesGym.org. From the site:

    John Coffee, Owner/Senior International Coach
    Home of 5 Olympic Weightlifting Olympians!
    16 Women’s National Olympic Weightlifitng Championships Titles

    • Olympic and Powerlifting Platforms
    • Strong Man Apparatus
    • Personal Training Available
    • Home of Mike Judge’s Throw One Deep Track and Field Athletes
    • Beginner and Serious Level Welcome

    Gym Hours:
    M-F 6am-10pm
    Saturday8am-6pm
    Sunday10am-4pm

    1800 Lower Roswell Road Marietta, Georgia 30068
    770-321-6900  770-321-0170 fax

    Email us at coffeesgym@hotmail.com

    Also be sure to check out Coffee’s Gym on Facebook.

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  • Eaton Barbell Club website is now live!
    by kara
    Posted January 3rd, 2010 at 7:09 am

    Powerlifter Chris “Smitty” Smith’s hardcore gym in Eaton Ohio now has it’s own website at EatonBarbell.com. From the site:

    “Welcome to Eaton Barbell, Preble County’s only premier, private strength training facility. Eaton Barbell caters to powerlifting, bodybuilding, and people that are just serious about weight training and wanting to get into better shape.

    The gym is private, and not open to the public.  Membership is mostly comprised of county employees, and a team of powerlifters and other strength athletes.  24/7 Pin code access allows members to train on their time whenever they want.”

    Also be sure to check out Eaton Barbell on Facebook.

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  • Q&A – Thank you for the submissions
    by kara
    Posted December 24th, 2009 at 9:06 am

    Thank you so much for all the awesome Q&A submissions.  I have so many great questions to answer.  I think I’m going to do some of them written and some of them video blog style.  Sorry I’ve been a bit behind on posting lately…that time of year…please stay tuned though!

    Happy Holidays,

    Kara :)

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  • UpSwong Fitness
    by kara
    Posted December 4th, 2009 at 10:18 am

    UpSwong Fitness is dedicated to covering all things fit. Working out, strength training, injury prevention and rehab, competing, nutrition, supplements, dieting, weight loss, weight gain, lifting for women, and more.

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  • UpSwong Poker
    by kara
    Posted November 22nd, 2009 at 12:55 pm

    UpSwong Poker is all about poker news, promos, game strategy, tips for beginners, tools & resources to give you an edge on your competition & more.  Check it out!

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  • A little more about UpSwong
    by kara
    Posted October 9th, 2009 at 4:33 pm

    For today’s daily swong I’m going to begin elaborating on the origins of upSWONG.  First let’s begin by defining an upswing.

    up-swing

    1.  an upward swing or trend

    2.  a big increase, improvement or advancement

    When asked what makes an upSWONG different than an upswing, semi-pro online poker player and backer Craig Smith replied, “Hmmmmm…it’s just better.  I mean, it’s a swong.”

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  • Stella's SWONGStakes
    by kara
    Posted October 1st, 2009 at 7:08 pm

    That’s right, the soul pwning dash is having a sweepstakes. Details coming soon.

    stellaunderpillow

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  • I’m Stella
    by Stella
    Posted October 1st, 2009 at 10:59 am

    I pwn dash souls

    stella_pwnage

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  • Confession: I like the iPhone WordPress app so much more than BlackBerry's
    by kara
    Posted September 15th, 2009 at 2:12 am

    As a BlackBerry girl at heart it’s always hard for me to admit when the iPhone wins in any way. I can almost always find some way to downplay even the most obviously superior features because it’s become second nature for me to always believe my BlackBerry crushes all other devices of it’s kind. But unfortunately I must admit, as far as WordPress is concerned iPhone > BlackBerry. *sigh*. I don’t even want to talk about all the reasons why as it would be too painful…it just is. The only thing that offers a slight glimmer of comfort is knowing I can crank out posts so much more efficiently on my BlackBerry Storm keyboard.

    Clearly I’ll have to go rant about this to a friend on BlackBerry Messenger as a reminder of one of the huge things I love about my Berry that the iPhone will never have.

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  • Saturday's Swong…a Haiku for You
    by kara
    Posted September 12th, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    Commodore Six Four

    Nothing compares to you and

    Dot Matrix Printer

    commodore

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  • Post from my iSWONG
    by kara
    Posted September 10th, 2009 at 12:15 pm

    Testing the iPhone WordPress app. BlackBerry Storm, you’re on deck.

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So funny you mentioned doing Olympic pulls. That’s almost ALL I do and ever have done for my deadlift training…even for sumo powerlifting deadlifts! Heavy snatch and clean pulls. When meet time gets close I’ll do a couple of sessions sumo with and without the suit, just to get used to the technique, but my training is almost exclusively Olympic pulls. I have tried both sumo and conventional deadlifts read more...

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