By: Manny Sanchez
      OC Strength Club

 
The Orange County Strength Club is a group of team mates who compete in various Powerlifting federations. Training is conducted on equipment such as the mono lift along with a glute ham raise and reverse hyper, mastadon bar, multi-grip swiss bar, safety squat bar, trap bar, fat bar, bands, chains, 600 lb tire, sled, DB's up to 160, power rack, cambered bar, TX power bar, TX DL bar.

We compete in local, national, and international events in powerlifting and strongman competitions. Knowledge of the sport, training methodologies, and strength levels for team members of the OC Strength Club are diverse and cover the spectrum from the new lifter to the seasoned veteran.

Team members of the OC Strength Club follow the tutelage of Manny and the years of experience by many of the current members of the club and visiting legends of the sport. We train as a T.E.A.M., we compete as a team, and our success is built on the individual input of our team members pushing each other beyond the point of "I can't" and into the reality of "I did."

The name “Orange County Strength Club” refers to the name of a “team” of lifters who train together to compete both individually and against other teams in the non-profit sport of Powerlifting. The Orange County Strength Club “team” name is not a commercial fictitious business name or commercial gym and does not operate as such. The Orange County Strength Club does not provide contractual memberships and is non-fee based. "Members" of the Orange County Strength Club represents individual team members and there are no financial obligations..

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Sheriff's Special Officer Tanya Reed

A big part of the job for Sheriff’s Special Officer Tanya Reed is helping people find their way to where they need to be at John Wayne Airport.

“I try to assist them. If they have a bag that is too big for the overhead, I’ll suggest that they check it before they go through the security line.  I see people who look nervous. I talk to them and find out they are afraid to fly. I try to help them,” she said.

John Wayne Airport has a wide variety of travelers, about nine million a year. They include business travelers and students, families going to see relatives and Marines and sailors coming and going from Camp Pendleton.
Some of the passengers she helps are foreign visitors coming to Orange County on vacation. But it isn’t her friendly style for helping travelers at the airport that has won SSO Reed international acclaim. It is her skill at heavy lifting. SSO Reed broke two world records this month at the World Police and Fire Games in Vancouver, Canada. She competed with 10,000 police and fire affiliated athletes from 55 countries.

In her class, she set two world records for the games. On Aug. 3, she bench pressed 236 pounds and on Aug. 5 she bench pressed 242 pounds and dead-lifted 380 pounds. She moved a combined 622 pounds for the push-pull competition. “The same discipline she uses to break world records weight lifting, she applies to her duties here at the airport and that makes her a very valuable member of our team,” said Captain Dennis DeMaio, of the Airport Services Division.

Sheriff’s Special Officer Tanya Reed joined the Orange County Sheriff’s Department 15 years ago after a 10 year tour with the Army Military Police. In the service she did overseas tours of duty in Germany and Korea.  

She spent most of her first 12 years with the Department at IRC.  The last 2 ½ years she has been at the airport, working a variety of assignments, ranging from the control center to bike patrol. She is ready to handle almost any emergency, from a lost child to a plane crash. She most enjoys helping the travelers.
“It’s a smaller airport so we get to know all of the people who work at the airlines. We talk to them and it helps us keep informed with what is going on each day,” she said. “At a larger airport, like LAX, there would not be that personal contact.”

One of the main goals is to keep the travelers moving toward their destination. When it comes to moving travelers it is mostly a skill at coaxing them. For heavy-weights, body strength is important but determination is the biggest key to success, said SSO Reed. “It’s 95 percent concentration,” she said.

Her first competition was in 2003 and she won two Gold Medals at the World Police and Fire Games in Barcelona, Spain. “It was a fluke, I saw it on the Web and it looked pretty interesting,” said SSO Reed.
When she returned she met Manny Sanchez of the OC Strength Club and he helped her train. Since then she has won Gold and Silver Medals every two years, in Quebec City, Canada: Adelaide, Australia, and most recently at the games in Vancouver, Canada.

She now trains four days a week, an hour to an hour and a half a day. SSO Reed said she enjoys her time at the World Police and Fire Games because she has made friends from around the world.  She gets to talk to fire and law enforcement colleagues from almost everywhere.

“I see a lot of the same people every two years but we are in a different part of the world,” she said. She loves the travel. The 2011 games will be in New York City, a 10th year commemoration to the dozens of police and hundreds of fire fighters who died in the 9/11 attacks. 

Two years after that the games move to Belfast, Northern Ireland.To view an Orange County Register story on her latest victory click here.

To see the Department Blog entry on an earlier world record set by SSO Reed, including video of her in competition, click here.

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