June 12th 2011 - Again Iron Underground was represented in competitive powerlifting. This time at the recent Acacia Park Winter Novice Powerlifting Comp at UQ, Brisbane with all lifters competing strongly with personal bests on the day heaving up some serious poundages and each of them crediting themselves and the gym with medals.

Iron Undergrounds Competitors being coach Paul Thompson, Dave Keong, Ben Langton and Damon Fernandez

Lifters were cheered on by a mixed crowd of fellow veteran and new lifters alike in a great way to spend their Sunday afternoon.

Iron Underground's head strength coach and director Paul Thompson and training partner Ben Langton traveled to Townsville to compete at the Art of Strength Championships in Townsville at Tropical Bodies Fitness Center in a great weekend of competitive lifting that drew a sizable crowd of spectators and lifters from across Australia.

Results were as follows from the boys

• Paul Thompson Under 93kg Category - Gold Medal & Best Male lifter Trophy (557.5kg total)
• Ben Langton Under 83kg Category - Gold Medal (457.5kg total)

Thanks also to Sean and everyone for running a great competition!

Head IU Trainer Paul Thompson and trainees Ben Langton & Dave Keong all competed at the QLD - Raw Powerlifting Opens on Sunday 27th March in a great day of hard, technical lifting by a good crowd of competitors. What was really impressive was the supportive atmosphere and encouragement between fellow lifters on the day.

Results are as follows

• Ben Langton - Under 83kgs - Bronze medal (420kg total)
  

• Paul Thompson - Under 93kgs - Silver Medal (537.5kg total)
  

• Dave Keong - Under 120kgs - Silver Medal (547.5kg total)

• Stephan Luther for getting his squat to 145kgs and bench to 100kgs @ under 80 kilo body weight

• Dave Keong for improving his bench to over 140kgs and joining the 200+ kg Deadlift club

• Ben Langton on increasing his lean muscle mass by 7kgs, decreasing body fat and increasing all his big lifts considerably in the process!

• Kylie Schedue for deadlifting 60kg for 30 reps, 70 kgs for 20 reps and getting her bench well over the 60kg mark
  

• Tony Low for his work on improving his performance on the squat and deadlift
  

• Warren Lee for his consistency with training, working around injuries and making no excuses to keep his lifts going up and muscle mass on the increase.

• Adam McKerrow for losing 7kgs of body fat whilst increasing his lifting performance in the big 3 lifts.

Keep up the great work everyone listed and well into 2011

Left to right: Paul Thompson, Tony Low, Ben Langton, Stephan Luther

On 27th November 2010 Iron Underground had 4 competitors enter the Toowoomba "Enemy on the Floor" Submission wrestling tournament.

In the under 84kg Division (middleweight) Paul Thompson took 3rd place with a 3 win - 2 loss record on the day, being unlucky to miss out on being in the final being submitted by heel hook by the eventual winner

In the under 77kg Division (welterweight) Ben Langton also took 3rd place with a 4-2 record, having to fight fellow training partner Tony Low who was 2 wins and 2 losses (both wins via submission to choke) to decide who would proceed to the semi finals where Ben was eventually eliminated after a a strong showing.

Stephan Luther showed great submission defense in his first competition however was eliminated by judges decision after 2 bouts that ended without a submission.

Great experience for the lads and we look forward to further competitions in 2011!

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