Sep 1, 2026 · 37 min · 11 segments
-Pam started off doing CrossFit for 6 years & then fell in love with powerlifting. \-She is 68 years old & holds American Records for the Squat, Bench Press & Deadlift. She also holds a couple of…
Were you in the six years that you were at your CrossFit gym, um, Were you known as like one of the stronger women? Did you gravitate towards that stuff easily? Did you make rapid gains? Because obviously you did well at this powerlifting meet.
I mean, and especially like the...
Like I remember one year in one of the opens, one of the lifts was...
The heaviest deadlift you could do.
And at that time, I did 285, which was a PR.
And I ranked really high at that point.
But I struggled with the gymnastics because I grew up on a farm.
We had no extracurriculars.
That was, you know, a lot of people that I know, like, oh, they took gymnastics as a kid.
They did cheerleading.
We did nothing but run the farm.
So at that point in time, yourself and your friends were like, you know what? CrossFit's in the rearview mirror.
No, no, it was this then.
Okay.
But I have to say, that was the year that CrossFit went from the open being five weeks to three weeks.
And I'm like, are you kidding me? I click CrossFit and now they're going to go to three weeks instead of five.
And I was going back and forth and I'm like, no, I'm sticking to powerlifting and that's it.
Were you in the six years that you were at your CrossFit gym, um, Were you known as like one of the stronger women? Did you gravitate towards that stuff easily? Did you make rapid gains? Because obviously you did well at this powerlifting meet.
I mean, and especially like the...
Like I remember one year in one of the opens, one of the lifts was...
The heaviest deadlift you could do.
And at that time, I did 285, which was a PR.
And I ranked really high at that point.
But I struggled with the gymnastics because I grew up on a farm.
We had no extracurriculars.
That was, you know, a lot of people that I know, like, oh, they took gymnastics as a kid.
They did cheerleading.
We did nothing but run the farm.
So at that point in time, yourself and your friends were like, you know what? CrossFit's in the rearview mirror.
No, no, it was this then.
Okay.
But I have to say, that was the year that CrossFit went from the open being five weeks to three weeks.
And I'm like, are you kidding me? I click CrossFit and now they're going to go to three weeks instead of five.
And I was going back and forth and I'm like, no, I'm sticking to powerlifting and that's it.
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