{"id":4005,"date":"2013-09-25T15:32:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T19:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2013-10-16T16:58:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T20:58:54","slug":"moffitt-has-weight-of-the-worlds-on-his-shoulders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/moffitt-has-weight-of-the-worlds-on-his-shoulders\/","title":{"rendered":"Moffitt has weight of the Worlds on his shoulders"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jeff Doner<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you love what you do, you\u2019ll work hard to be among the greatest. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly what Aurora\u2019s own Jordan Moffitt has been doing for the past nine years in becoming one of Canada\u2019s up and coming power-lifters.<\/p>\n

Moffitt, 25, has been weightlifting since he was 16 and powerlifting the past two. He now works at a local Goodlife gym as a personal trainer, which is helping him get ready for the World Powerlifting Congress Championships in Prague, Czech Republic from Oct. 26 \u2013 Nov. 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a raw lifter, which means I can only use a belt and wrist wraps, that\u2019s all that\u2019s allowed,\u201d Moffitt explained, adding that this will be the biggest competition he has ever attended.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s considered the World\u2019s, so it\u2019s a few lifters from every country and I got lucky enough to be chosen for Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

In order to qualify for the worldwide event, Moffitt has been lifting in competitions all over Canada. Most of his qualifying totals have come from competitions held in Waterloo by the WPC, which is a branch of the Canadian Powerlifting Federation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been doing this non-stop for about two years,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat I want to achieve right now at this competition is hit that elite total in a higher weight class. I was able to do elite at 198 pounds, so this one I want to get in at 220.\u201d <\/p>\n

Moffitt said that only one per cent of lifters in the world are able to achieve elite at that level. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not far off; it\u2019s just a matter of being able to hit everything in the competition smoothly,\u201d he said. \u201cGym training and everything is going well and I\u2019m en route, but it\u2019s going to change quite a bit in a different country, so I\u2019ve just got to get the nerves out of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it has been a long road to get to where he is today. Moffitt said when he was younger, he was a big kid, but then in high school sprung up and became the skinny kid. That\u2019s when weightlifting became an interest for Moffitt.
\n\u201cI just wanted to make a change,\u201d he said. \u201cI haven\u2019t looked back since.\u201d<\/p>\n

After high school, his interest in the sport only grew, so he decided to pursue an education somewhere in a related field. He studied personal training at George Brown right out of high school, but that interest faded, taken over by weightlifting. After completing his training, he went into police foundations, all while keeping a strict weightlifting regimen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was stuck in a job for a few years that I just wasn\u2019t happy in and I was presented the opportunity and took it. It\u2019s gotten me closer with a lot of people and you learn about yourself and others.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moffitt said he is glad he has been able to connect his work to his weightlifting. Even though he is training for a large event, he limits his workouts to three or four times a week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI try to give myself lots of rest, because workouts are pretty taxing, but it\u2019s pretty basic. I\u2019ve tried a lot of methods to progress and I found that this way is the best,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s more of just a mental thing and getting in there. Three days isn\u2019t a lot to train and I would be in here seven days a week if I could, but I wouldn\u2019t recover properly. For me personally, that\u2019s the sweet spot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even though it has been a long road to get to where he is now, Moffitt knows the most important moment is still to come in Prague when he lifts October 31.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be at my very best for this,\u201d he said with confidence. \u201cIt\u2019s not a little competition. There\u2019s a lot going into this \u2013 a lot of money and a lot of time. I just want to be at my best.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Toronto\u2019s]Jeremy Hamilton, he\u2019s the strongest guy in 220 right now, I\u2019m not on par with him, but he keeps me going, my friends, my family. They\u2019re pretty much pushing me to be better and that\u2019s my inspiration to keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you love what you do, you\u2019ll work hard to be among the greatest. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly what Aurora\u2019s own Jordan Moffitt has been doing for the past nine years…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013-09-25-06.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-12B","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 07:10:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}