Talbot's House

As posted on twitter on Monday, Dom Brett broke his 3rd school squatting record in the house gym on Thursday. The video is below and Duncan's interview with Dom will follow soon...

Having taken the school back squat record last term, Head of House Dom Brett has continued to work hard over the summer in the gym. Coming back early to help with new boys day also allowed him to make an attempt at the Front Squat record before term had even started. Not only did he break the record, he beat the previous one by 12.5kg, to raise it to 132.5kg.

Congratulations to the following Talbot's boys who achieved some impressive things in the school gym at the end of term.

Ben Nesseler (30 Coward Press) and John Holroyd (8 Muscle Ups) won the final two 'Exercise of the Week' competitions at the end of last term. John's was particularly impressive given that the muscle up is seen as one of the hardest of bodyweight exercises by the boys and he is a remove former. Few boys can do one of them, let alone eight, and he even beat Mr Gracie into second place! Ben won his comfortably, boding well for next hockey season!

Arguably more impressive was Dom Brett's breaking of the coveted school Back Squat record. He squatted 152.5kg to beat the previous best of 150kg held by Joe Bonnaserra. Dom has tried for this record for a long time and was so excited he had started gearing up to attempt the front squat record immediately after before the gym had to be closed.