olympic weightlifting

Hello there, it’s Oleksiy Torokhtiy speaking. You may recognize me from my participation in weightlifting sports for more than twenty years. For ten of those years, I was an active member of the national ... Continue Reading

Amidst the reopening growing pains, most beginners will continue to participate in purchasing or researching online programs or fumble. Personal trainers and or coaches who aren't sold on online ... Continue Reading

As an aspiring professional bodybuilder, entering the area of Chinese weightlifting in some regard is foreign. Why would a bodybuilder train two times daily for two weeks without bodybuilding training ... Continue Reading

Let me tell you about a character. A character you’ll find many times over in different independent gyms. This person is passionate, not only about their training but the idea of it. The type of training ... Continue Reading

Over two consecutive weekends in May I was able to officiate at both the American and Canadian national weightlifting championships. Now that I have returned home and the dust has settled it is time to go ... Continue Reading

In the early days of competitive weightlifting (think of the Gay Nineties and France’s Belle Epoch) weightlifting technique was very rudimentary. Since the lifts were not yet standardized there was little ... Continue Reading

A weightlifter should strive to be in the optimal weight category for their body to be able to perform the best they can. It can certainly be the difference between a podium finish and a mid-field ... Continue Reading

In July of 2018, the International Weightlifting Federation announced the new bodyweight categories that the sport would compete for in the years to come. This came as a result of a desire to erase all old ... Continue Reading

For some bizarre reason, Olympic weightlifting is treated as a very different discipline from general strength training by newer adoptees. Things that make intuitive sense in weight training aren’t applied ... Continue Reading

In the sport of weightlifting, the key requirement of a successful lift in competition is to lift the barbell to the full extent of the arms, while under control. As such, the elbows and their associated ... Continue Reading

The snatch lift is one of two competitive movements in the Olympic sport of weightlifting. Originally known as one of the two “quick lifts,” (the other being the clean and jerk) the snatch contrasted the ... Continue Reading

The 2017 Worlds are now history. With 10 of the sport’s superpowers absent, there were bound to be some interesting side stories. I covered some of the Highlights 2017 World Weightlifting Championships ... Continue Reading

In the early days of the iron game, the boundary lines between weightlifting, bodybuilding, pure strength lifting, wrestling, and weight throwing were much less defined than they are now. Athletes would ... Continue Reading

Photo By Bev Childress Photo By Bev Childress Is Olympic-style weightlifting just a different form of plyometrics? This question has been bouncing around the strength and conditioning ... Continue Reading

I am often asked, when should one use Olympic-style weightlifting exercises in the training of competitive athletes, especially at the high school and collegiate level? Should athletes be bigger, faster ... Continue Reading

Olympic-style weightlifting exercises have long been considered as the most successful sport-specific form of resistance training. Despite their complexity, derivates of the main movements have been ... Continue Reading

Should athletes in sports learn how to catch if they want to learn how to move faster? Strength is important, definitely. For that they have weighted pulls and more traditional heavy strength training ... Continue Reading

Weightlifting, being a more or less niche sport, cannot rely on the parent culture to help it produce a steady supply of new recruits. If all of the nation’s football players and coaches were to disappear ... Continue Reading

So you wanna be an Olympic weightlifter. I do too. I also want to be a fighter pilot, the President of the United States, and the Fittest Man on Earth. I would also like to be a dolphin wrangler, a Super ... Continue Reading

According to a series of recent posts published online by the NFHS and the NCAA, the vast majority of high school and collegiate athletes are familiar with one or more Olympic style weightlifting ... Continue Reading

Source: Bruce Klemens Source: Bruce Klemens With absolute strength being the physiological limit that defines the ability for an athlete to produce power, the optimal rate of force development ... Continue Reading