The goals of the club are to expose people in the Barrie area to powerlifting, to increase members’ knowledge of training methods, to improve training facilities by encouraging gyms to provide equipment appropriate for powerlifting and to promote competition at powerlifting meets. The club pursues these goals as a non-profit corporation that is controlled by its members and that is open to everyone in the Barrie area.
The club is currently starting up and has no fees. Fees may be introduced to reflect the activities that the members would like to pursue, but will be minimized to reflect the non-profit purposes of the club.
We intend to apply to be an OPA affiliated club. We are also working to set up a Georgian College extramural powerlifting team.
You can contact the club by email at barrielifting@gmail.com
In order for a member to have lifts added to the club leader board you must email a request. Your email to leaderboard@barrielifting.com must include your name, weight class, lift attempts, preferred gym location and your availability. A designated club member, who will act as a judge to verify your lifts, will respond to arrange a time for the attempts. All three lifts must be performed and will be verified by a single judge who will apply, at their discretion, the rules of the Canadian Powerlifting Union, including commands. However, a lifter may make as many attempts as desired, per lift type, within 5 minutes.
The leader board currently combines certain weight classes and junior and open lifters for ease of reference, but as more lifts are added to the board the categories may be listed separately. The club may display and organize the leader board, in whole or in part, to highlight the best lifts and totals within or among classes as it sees fit. Entries may be removed from the leader board one year after the lifter ceases to be a member of the club.
Notable lifters in the Barrie area include:
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Unless otherwise specified, meetings and information sessions are held at the Georgian College Campus, within or near the Athletic & Fitness Center.