Gene Lawerence's Meet 7/18/2009

I first met Gene just about ten months ago when he came to train with Charles and I at the Bed and Barbell. From that day on its been all down hill :) Gene is a stud at any age but a true inspiration at the age of 69 for what he has been able to accomplish since finding the joy of training and nutrition at a later age. From day one we were pushing him to compete and he just fell in love, caved in and became a national record holder in his age and weight call at his first meet in February. Then topped his bench presses by 30 lbs just weeks ago before decided at the last minute he wanted to compete and have me coach him to the meet below.

Lean Gene the deadlifting machine and I headed out Friday afternoon for his third meet in ever and all in the last 6 months. This was to be Gene's last meet as a spring chicken at the age of 69. His last chance to build on his records set in the 65-69 age class before he turns 70 in 3 weeks.

Man did we have a blast and did Gene ever kick Butt. He went in and broke state records in both the deadlift and bench, as well as HUGE personal meet records of 360 and 205 (just narrowly missing 255) in the dead and bench respectively. As well I haven’t smiled and laughed so much in years from the start of the trip through them meet and to the end which you can se in the video documentary below.



Thanks Gene. You are a pleasure to train and train with, to coach in meets and just generally be around. Your a dear friend and an inspiration. I have no doubt we will be shattering more records together for years to come.