olympic weightlifting

EDITOR'S NOTE: Welcome to 12 Reps - in each appearance of 12 Reps, our coaches, writers, and occasional guests will be answering the same twelve questions. Go "into the locker-room" with them and get to ... Continue Reading

EDITOR'S NOTE: Welcome to 12 Reps - in each appearance of 12 Reps, our coaches, writers, and occasional guests will be answering the same twelve questions. Go "into the locker-room" with them and get to ... Continue Reading

Author Brian Tracy says if you want to be successful then find what the most successful people in any field are doing and keep doing it until you do it as well as them. So what can we do in exercise terms ... Continue Reading

EDITOR'S NOTE: Welcome to the Athlete Journal of Olympic weightlifter Holley Mangold. Holley is part of Team USA headed to London this summer. Follow her journey here as she trains for the 2012 ... Continue Reading

What’s not to love about the power clean? It’s a great all around strength and power exercise. It hits the posterior chain, teaches intramuscular coordination, and helps speed and power production. ... Continue Reading

You don't have twenty hours per week to spend in the gym. You don't have the ability to workout twice a day, six days a week, and once on Sunday. And yet you want fast progress and it's ticking you off ... Continue Reading

I just spent the last half hour completing The Original Geek Test and scored 44.64945% placing me in the "Major Geek" category. I challenge you to beat that. I just spent the last half hour ... Continue Reading

One of the many things I love about being a weightlifter is that I get to be a part of a remarkably unique subculture. In my last article on How to Snatch in 10 Seconds I made the claim Olympic Lifters are ... Continue Reading

Olympic weightlifters are a bunch of elitists. I'm not saying that to be mean. I'm one of them! And some of that elitism is well deserved. After all, the snatch - when done well - is one of the hardest ... Continue Reading

There is much debate in the CrossFit community regarding the necessity of weightlifting shoes. Many athletes swear by them and would not dare to think of wearing athletic shoes for weightlifting. There is ... Continue Reading

I get accused of being a Sadist on a fairly regular basis. I take that as a compliment. Every coach must be just a little bit sadistic (someone who enjoys seeing others in pain) or else they'll never be ... Continue Reading

Your mind is playing tricks on you. Many of your memories are false. And, no matter how much you think you can believe yourself - you can't. Remarkably...that might be a good thing! Over at ... Continue Reading

The process of learning how to snatch is more like baking a cake than like making gumbo. You have to follow precise steps, you can't skip them, you can't do them in reverse order, and you need to get the ... Continue Reading

Last week we spoke with Olympic weightlifting coach, Sean Waxman, about his competitive experience, how he was inspired to become a coach, and his dream for creating a team of international level ... Continue Reading