Nathan “The Bear” Schadle

Age: Just turned 14 several hours ago
School: Charles Armstrong (will start Monta Vista High in Fall)

Date you started at FIT: I started training at Barbell Club under Coach Rob in August of 2006, when I was 12.

Your best lifts:
Snatch: 55 kg. (121 pounds)
Clean and Jerk: 72 kg. (158.4 pounds)
Front Squat: 77.5 kg. (170.5 pounds)
Back Squat: 95 kg. (209 pounds)

Bear is a two-sport athlete, participating in baseball and Olympic-style weightlifting. With hard work and determination, and under the guidance of Coach Rob, Bear went to the 2007 National School-age Championships, where he won a Silver medal, his first medal ever. And just recently, Bear turned a triple play in a baseball game.

Bear played baseball before he joined Barbell Club. He was also playing soccer but, with a tight schedule of schoolwork and baseball, he dropped it in order to make time for Olympic-style weightlifting, as he realizes the importance of strength training for overall athletic development.

If you’re ever at FIT in the late afternoons, you can see the lightning speed at which Bear pulls himself under a barbell. This kind of speed, no doubt, increases his athleticism for baseball and for any sport that he may consider in the future.  

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