Mindy Alexander
COUNTING MINDY ALEXANDER by BROOK BOWEN hat do Tunkhannock, common?
Pennsylvania and St. of her hips at a 45 degree angle.
Powerlifting championships in St.
Hotel. therapy to cure the birth defects. flexible.” country.
By the time the meet ended, Mindy had set four new scholastic records, ers.” but she had emotional ones as well.
Award.
1,000-pound mark. against all comers OPEN” a 403 pound squat and a 385 pound dead lift, for a total of 1,003 pounds, all of which were high school records. Mindy’s bench press had set National Champion. pounds in the weight room. At the meet, she rose to the pound increase.
Mindys’ father Ken Alexander.
Mindy has been in the weight room since eighth grade, but was pounds more than her previous dead lift max of 260. at the end of her freshman season. she backed off on the competitions.
October of her sophomore year. of them and I understand that.” four months after beginning to lift. impressed by the local 2-7 high school football lifters, and decided to enter the high school squat-bench meet in march. She increased a total of 25 pounds going 340 on the squat and bringing in a 185 bench. She continued to lift but unfortunately, track ended her Junior year on a sour note, in spite of her second straight district title in the discus. Mindy went in to the state meet second seed in AAA, and seemed to lose her confidence the end of June, Mindy decided that if she was such a poor “big meet competitor”
in track, that she would concentrate on the lifting and leave the throwing behind her. Then it happened.
Pennsylvania, bench contest in August where she pressed a solid looking nice.”
Christy medaled ahead of her.
190 pounds, another personal record.
ADFPA Central PA open, and racked up squat, bench, and dead lift totals of 360-200-330.
USPF NY State Championships let her in as a guest lifter in February, where she went 380-210-360 for 950 total. Only six weeks later at the ADFPA High School Nationals Mindy increased her total by 53 pounds, hitting the previously mentioned 403-214-385 for a record breaking 1,003 total pounds, in which records, one national record and won the Outstanding Female Lifter holding athlete she is as “normal”
State meet started the same way. know how much was on the bar). soon the meet began coming apart. wanted!” throw left. do the lift and walk away.” Mindy is not only a record she pulled it off the floor like it was 200 pounds. She explained that once she got it off the floor, she was afraid to let to go because she might have broken a nail.” During her High School days Mindy Grotto’s Pizza, as well as working hard in the class room. Her 3.5 GPA helped her get in Ohio Wesleyan University where she is currently attending as a freshman this year — where she is continuing to lift and break new personal and national records.
she continues to strive to be the DOSE sicusss.0 and went from sixth to second!
Mindy's trade mark. asleep on the bench between sets. joke around. weights.
Perfection:
Auxiliaries, the BFS Dot Dril, the BFS 1-2-3-4 Flexibility Program, Plyometrics, Box Jumping and Speed.
From BFS Magazine — Summer 1993. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).
