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UAB medical student, group of gym buddies take a powerlifting competition by storm

BY NICK PATTERSON OCTOBER 22, 2021 4:01 PMFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInEmailExpand Photo courtesy of Terry Grisham. Mountain Brook native and UAB medical student Owen Ross. One day early in July, Mountain Brook native and UAB medical student Owen Ross did something pretty remarkable: He went to a weightlifting competition and walked away with first place in his class. What’s […]

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The little gym that could: Terry Grisham’s Team Chalk takes regular folks and helps them become champion powerlifters

Ali Priest BY NICK PATTERSON SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 4:52 PMFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInEmailExpand Photos courtesy of Terry Grisham. Members of Team Chalk pose for a photo with Chalk Gym owner Terry Grisham, center front, during the United States Powerlifting Association Club One Classic in Oxford. When Ali Priest took her job at McLeod Software in Inverness, she also needed

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Spain Park student joins diverse set of gym buddies to take powerlifting competition by storm

BY NICK PATTERSON OCTOBER 25, 2021 1:08 AM Expand Photo courtesy of Terry Grisham. Doan Huynh, 17, performs a squat during the United States Powerlifting Association Club One Classic in Oxford in July. Huynh said she has been a member of Chalk Gym since it first opened. About a month after her 17th birthday, Doan Huynh

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The little gym that could: Coaching that makes all the difference

by Nick Patterson Tyler McGill BY NICK PATTERSON SEPTEMBER 22, 2021 4:17 PMFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInEmailExpand Photos courtesy of Terry Grisham. Tyler McGill, of Vestavia, participates in the deadlift competition with Chalk Gym at the United States Powerlifting Association Club One Classic held in Oxford in July. For his first ever weightlifting competition, Tyler McGill of Vestavia Hills, just

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