Fitness
- Can You Deal With Eustress?
- Determining Heavy Loads and Understanding Intensity in Weight Lifting
- Arousal Management: The Science Behind Getting Mad at the Bar
- Young to Really Young: Beginning Olympic Weightlifting
- The Future of Video Replay for Weightlifting
- The Split Style Isn’t Dead
- The New Weightlifting Categories: An Early Assessment
- The Role of Your Grip
- Lifters: Take Pride in the Shared Discipline of Iron
- The Jerk and Aging Elbows: How to Fix Your Lockout
- The Problem with Succession In Weightlifting
- What Weightlifters Should Know About Body Fat
- By the Numbers: 2017 World Weightlifting Championships Analysis
- Can I Train Both Powerlifting and Olympic Weightlifting?
- What a Cleaner World Championship Means for Weightlifting
- Lessons From Four Generations of Weightlifters
- Is Your Flexibility Determined Through Genetics or Training?
- What Your Deadlift to Squat Ratio Can Tell You About Your Olympic Lifts
- An Analysis of Body Types in Weightlifting
- Weightlifting Injuries and How to Prevent Them
- The Importance of Sleep for Weightlifters and Other Athletes
- How to Adjust Sets and Reps to Fit Your Training Goal
- Are You a Barbell Generalist?
- There is No True Athlete
- The Barbell Rises: Challenges and Opportunities
- The Barbell Politicians
- Thank Norbert Shemansky for Your Weightlifting Category
- The Greatest Olympian: Bolt or Phelps?
- A Few Thoughts at Olympic Halftime
- Advice for Lifelong Training: “Gray Hair and Black Iron”
- There Is No Summer Vacation for Olympic Lifters
- The Dying Breed of Natural Athletes
- Qualifying for Rio: A Tale of Two Cities
- A Champion Through Adversity: The Late, Great Tommy Kono
- The Pursuit of Excellence: Drug Use in Olympic Weightlifting
- The Pursuit of Excellence: Steroid Myths in Sport
- The Pursuit of Excellence: Early History of Doping in Sports
- Old-School Jump Training for Olympic Lifters
- Brains and Brawn: How Smart (or Dumb) Are Weightlifters?
- Are You Training Too Heavy? How to Make 5×5 Work for You
- Rises and Falls: Weightlifting in the Post-Soviet Era
- Why You Keep Missing Your Jerks
- World Champion Weightlifters Are Just Like Us
- Perform on the Platform: Pre-Competition Week Strategies
- The Final Countdown: Strategies for Competition Week
- Explosiveness and Technique: Weightlifting Versus Powerlifting
- Are You Ready for Your Athletic Comeback?
- You Are Not a Bodybuilder (So Don’t Train Like One)
- How Much Do You Want It? The 4 Levels of Motivation for Lifters
- Should You Split Jerk With a Wide Grip?
- A Case for the Wide Grip Jerk: It’s Hard to Argue With Success
- Weightlifting at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Whither Goest Weightlifting? Exciting Times for a Growing Sport
- Caitlyn Jenner: I Just Had to Comment
- The 1st Pull In Weightlifting: Go Fast Or Slow?
- Weightlifting Setups: Don’t Lose a Big Clean With a Sloppy Jerk
- Pound for Pound Lifting: Who Is Stronger? (Wilks vs. Sinclair)
- Weightlifting for Athletes: Should You Be Power Jerking?
- A Closer Look: The Height of Female Lifters
- The Decline of Physical Literacy in Kids: What Can We Do?
- Does Being Fatter Help You to Lift More?
- Would You Be Better Off Power Jerking?
- The Future of Olympic Weightlifting: Ilyin vs. Kashirina
- The Difference Between Weight Classes in Boxing and Weightlifting
- The Triple Crown: A History of Boxing’s True Champions
- The Triple Crown: The Ultimate Prize in Weightlifting
- Cutting Weight in Weightlifting: Is There a Better Way?
- 7 Ways Stress Can Harm Weightlifting Technique
- The Scientific Differences Between Weightlifting and Powerlifting
- The Difference Between Age and Maturation in Youth Weightlifters
- How to Eliminate the Problems With Your Press
- Why the Numbers on Weight Machines Are a Lie
- Want a Bigger Jerk? It’s All About the 2-Phase Dip
- The Benefits of Weightlifting Meets for Specific Skill Levels
- The Dip Error You Don’t Even Know You’re Making
- An Analysis of Interesting Weightlifting Records and Trends
- Return on Investment: When to Prioritize Weakness and Strength
- Seattle’s Gift to Weightlifting and Other Sports
- Anderson’s 1,200lb Squat: Did He Do It?
- When Referees Go Wrong: How to Handle Harsh Calls
- How to Analyze Which of Your Lifts Need Attention
- How Tonnage Calculations Can Make You a Better Lifter
- How Warming Up the Right Way Can Still Go Wrong
- Should a Weightlifter Watch Other Lifters?
- Is Weightlifting a Team Sport or an Individual Effort?
- What to Do (and Not Do) on Competition Day
- The Weightlifting Mistake You Didn’t Know You Make
- How Often Should You Compete in Weightlifting?
- 2 Effective Methods of Getting Your Lifts Off the Ground
- A Brief History of Humor in Weightlifting
- The Problem of Power, Money, and Integrity in Weightlifting
- The Pan-American Youth Weightlifting Championships and the Wonder of Youth Itself
- Weight Training in the Movies: A Reflection of Society?
- Music and Weightlifting Don’t Mix (Or Do They?)
- How the Flat Bench Came to Be
- What Does “Certification” Mean?
- Why Winning and Losing Matters and the Dodo Is Extinct
- How to Avoid Blacking Out While Weightlifting
- 4 Ways to Develop Willpower for Weightlifting
- Got Vertical? How to Measure for Explosive Strength
- How to Calculate the Energy Expenditure of Weightlifters
- For CrossFitters: 7 Strategies for Success in Your First Olympic Weightlifting Meet
- The 5 Benefits of Massage Therapy for the Serious Weightlifter
- How Much Recovery Do You Need? 7 Factors to Add Up
- Partial Movements: Globo Gym Fail or Useful Training Tool?
- Size Does Matter – Managing Weight Cutting in Weightlifting
- What Strongman Training Can Teach Weightlifters and Workers
- The Expression of Strength, Part 3 – Strength Endurance
- The Expression of Strength, Part 2 – Speed Strength
- The Expression of Strength, Part 1 – Absolute Strength
- How Barbell Knurling Differs and How This Impacts Different Lifters
- John F. Kennedy’s Legacy of Physical Fitness
- How Much Overhead Are You Carrying?
- The Fundamental Aspects of the Dip: Perfecting Your Jerk
- How High School Physics Can Help Us With Our Weightlifting
- But What Do They Mean? An Analysis of Weightlifting World Records
- Proper Rack Positioning in the Clean and Jerk (and How to Adjust Mid-Lift)
- How to Determine Your Jerk Grip Width
- How to Determine Your Snatch Grip Width
- Catching the Bounce, Part 2: The Jerk
- Catching the Bounce, Part 1: The Clean
- 10 Myths About Olympic Weightlifting That Need to Stop
- Psychology in the Weightlifting Arena, Part 7 – The Lifter’s Trance
- Psychology in the Weightlifting Arena, Part 6 – Discharging
- Psychology in the Weightlifting Arena, Part 5 – Charging Up
- Psychology in the Weightlifting Arena, Part 4 – Getting Centered
- Psychology in the Weightlifting Arena, Part 3 – Controlling Internal Noise
- Psychology in the Weightlifting Arena, Part 2 – Fighting External Noise
- Psychology in the Weightlifting Arena (Part 1 of a Series)
- The Value of Competition: What Weightlifters Know That the Hippies Didn’t
- The Pull Is Not an Upright Row: Misconceptions in Weightlifting
- A Jerk Is a Jerk (and a Press Is a Press)
- How Dangerous Are Weight Lifting and Olympic Lifting, Really?
- What Makes Masters Competition Different From Regular Competition?
- Foot Placement and Movement in Olympic Weightlifting: How to Create the Most Power
- The Real Way to Know a Power Lift From a Full Squat Lift
- Little Fish in a Big Pond: A Lesson in Competition and Humility
- What Your Pulling Height Tells You About Your Olympic Lifts
- Squatting and Deadlifting: Their Correlation With the Olympic Lifts
- Correlation and Causation: What Pubs and Churches Have to Do With Your Clean and Jerk
- Why We Prefer Individual Sports Over Team Sports
- How to Take Our Goals From Dreams to Reality
- Proper Force Transfer in Weight Training: Grounding, Contacting, and Tightening
- Analyzing a Weightlifter: Do We Learn Anything From Winning?
- How to Properly Analyze the Performance of a Weightlifter
- Techniques for Controlling Competition Anxiety
- The Truth Behind ‘No Pain, No Gain’ in Weight Lifting
- Psychology of a Weightlifter: Dealing With Excessive Anxiety
- Why Do People (Even Coaches) Resist Weight Training?
- The Press-Out Controversy in Olympic Weightlifting
- The Black Athlete in Weightlifting
- Women’s Weightlifting: A Journey of 25 Years
- The Problems Recruiting Young People to Weightlifting
- Weightlifting vs the World: Rivalry Amongst Sports
- The Psychological Requirements of Weightlifting
- New Year’s Resolutions For Weightlifters
- My Greatest Day in Weightlifting
- Fantasy Christmas List For Weightlifters
- The Pros and Cons of the Incline Press
- The Push Press: Peculiarities and Pitfalls
- Women In Weight Sports, Part 2: Olympic Lifting in Modern Ages
- What Weightlifters Should Be Thankful for This Holiday
- Women In Weight Sports, Part 1: How It All Started
- The History of Weight Sports: How They Evolved Since 1900
- True Tales of the Real Gym Horrors
- How Sports Evolve: From Grassroots to Global
- The Barbell War: How the Soviets Ousted American Weightlifting
- Making a Comeback: Why We Go Back to Competition
- Why We Retire From Competition: When and Why We Quit Our Sport
- The Doug Hepburn Bench Press Success Formula
- Does the Power Clean or Power Snatch Train Speed?
- Does Race or Ethnicity Matter in Athletics?
- When a Monopoly Falls: What Weightlifting Can Learn from Hockey
- Choosing the Best Weight Class For Lifting
