Weightlifting: Warrnambool's Jack Smith and Josh Cox

Watch: Breakwater Barbell weightlifters Jack Smith and Josh Cox

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00:00 joining us, Jack and Josh, you're preparing for the Victorian Weightlifting Titles this weekend,

00:03 can you tell us a bit about that? Yeah, so Victoria's hosting its state championships this

00:10 weekend. Jack and I will be going along to try and get six out of six lifts and try and represent

00:16 the club a bit and have a bit of a day out. We've trained a lot for this competition so it'll be

00:22 good. It's going to be good to see all the other competitors there too, especially from around

00:27 Melbourne and then some other regional areas around Ballarat and Bendigo and places like that, so

00:32 it'll be a good competition. What do you guys enjoy about weightlifting?

00:36 It's a lot of hard work, we train a lot, it's quite mentally challenging,

00:43 the body can balance quite a bit. It's good to be able to put a lot of work in and then see

00:50 some results on the platform when you can get out and actually get to a competition and try and put

00:57 all that work to practice. It's pretty rewarding, putting in all the hard work and then see the

01:02 result at the end of it. Can you tell me a bit about what the competition will entail,

01:08 what will you have to do on the weekend? Well, we'll weigh in and you have to be a certain body

01:14 weight in the weight class, so I'll be -89, which is 89 kilos and below, and Josh is 102

01:22 below. And then we have three attempts at a snatch and then an intermission and then three

01:28 attempts at a clean and jerk and it's max total wins. Do you guys have a preference of which

01:35 you prefer to do? I much prefer to snatch personally. Yeah, I'm a clean and jerk.

01:40 All right, best of luck guys. Thank you very much.

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