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2011 – 2012 Prospective Lifters:

• If you have not already done so, please contact Coach Spellman. (click here)
  Please include your full name, gender, body weight, and class year (plus graduation year if they differ).
• Practice starts Monday, August 29. Meet at 6:00 pm in G. Rollie White 161B.
  • GRW is on Houston Street, between Kyle Field and Koldus.
  • Enter GRW from Houston Street, at the glass double-doors. Turn right into the hallway; 161B will be at the end of the hallway, on your left.
  • Parking is available in the lot on Houston Street and finding a spot may take time—please plan accordingly.
• Wear athletic attire:
  • Bring squat shoes if you have them already.
  • No Under Armour type shirts.
  • Gentlemen, wear brief underwear or equivalent; not boxers. Dress to work; not to impress.
  • Ladies, dress to work; not to impress.
• Practices are Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday at 6:00 pm in G. Rollie White 161B. UPDATED: Through September 15, 2012, practice will end at 8:00 pm. Beginning September 18, practice will run to 7:45 pm and the strength workout following practice will take approximately half an hour to complete.
  • GRW is on Houston Street, between Kyle Field and Koldus.
  • Enter GRW from Houston Street, at the glass double-doors. Turn right into the hallway; 161B will be at the end of the hallway, on your left.
  • Parking is available in the lot on Houston Street and finding a spot may take time—please plan accordingly.

Answers to common questions to help you plan for the coming school year and season

How is the college powerlifting season structured?

Fall is foundational: conditioning, developing mechanics, developing raw strength, raising work capacity, learning to be an Aggie powerlifter. The mentality is learn in practice; work during workouts. There will be approximately two meets on the fall schedule.
Little fundraising is done in the fall.

Spring uses the foundation built during the fall. Lifters use the developed strength, work capacity, and mechanics; learn to utilize gear; and learn to execute on meet day. The mentality is execute in practice; work during workouts.
There will be equipped meets in the spring before the National Championship, which will be in April, 2012, in Baton Rouge, LA.
The bulk of the team’s fundraising is done in the spring, with approximately six Saturdays ⁄ athlete between mid-January and mid-March committed to judging high school meets and hosting the Aggie Showdown.

As you can see, Aggie Powerlifters are busier in the spring than in the fall. Whenever you have flexibility in scheduling your classes, please schedule accordingly.

I am taking strength training for my kinesiology class. How does this work with powerlifting or can powerlifting serve as credit for my strength training class?

Powerlifting does NOT give you credit for any class.
You will have powerlifting practice during the times listed above—this is practice for the sport, analogous to basketball practice or other.
You will also have strength workouts, which are generally completed right after practice—these are workouts to get strong for the sport, analogous to the strength training you would have with another sport.
If you are taking the strength training class, please speak with your instructor—tell the instructor you are doing powerlifting and ask for clearance to do your strength workouts during strength training class.
The instructors are under no obligation to allow this but they have been very cooperative over the past several years. There will be test days in class where you will need to do the strength training class protocol but you should generally be able to do your powerlifting workouts during strength training class.