weightlifting

It can be informative to read a review of a model of weightlifting shoe. But it would be more informative to learn how multiple models stack up against each other, right? RELATED: Getting the Most Out ... Continue Reading

New athletes typically do one of two things with their upper backs when approaching a snatch or a clean: They over-tighten their upper back They don’t think about it at all How can we ... Continue Reading

When I was a kid, I never trained the Olympic lifts. It's a shame because they would have helped me tremendously as a power-sport athlete. In all fairness, I wasn't alone in not doing many explosive lifts. ... Continue Reading

Recently, I wrote about a common error in the jerk - that of stopping at the bottom of the dip. Due to the response, I’m going to expand upon the dip so we might understand this phase of the jerk a little ... Continue Reading

With the popularity of CrossFit and its use of Olympic lifting in its routines, we are also seeing a rise in people interested in entering an official weightlifting event. In addition to CrossFit, many ... Continue Reading

Deload. Taper. Unload. Backoff. Rest. Whatever you want to call it, it’s never a fun week. As athletes we don’t only grow and get stronger in the gym. We also progress when we recover. A deload is a ... Continue Reading

Every year about this time I take a look at the world records in the sport of weightlifting. I guess it's the accountant coming out in me, as I like to do a bit of horizontal and vertical analysis of the ... Continue Reading

We all have been taught from our earliest days that we must work on our weak points. This is true no matter what our endeavor, whether it be our school work, our job, our relationships, or of course, our ... Continue Reading

Officiating is not an easy job regardless of your sport. Weightlifting is no exception. The Difficulties and Disagreements of Refereeing In the sport of weightlifting, three referees ... Continue Reading

Last week we looked at an overview of volume or tonnage calculation in analyzing your training load. This week we take a look at how that figure can be broken down and analyzed further. It is one thing to ... Continue Reading

Read any book about training and you will be advised to keep track of your progress via a workout log. This can be useful, as you can see your progress made over time. But what many of these books do not ... Continue Reading

Most people involved in the sport of weightlifting, whether they are athletes, coaches, officials, or administrators, like to watch other lifters perform. That is how we get inspired and that is how we ... Continue Reading

Jorge Califrer is pioneering the sport of Olympic weightlifting in Brazil.  Brazil? Yes. What, you think that the only sports worth mentioning in Brazil include beautiful people playing fútbol or ... Continue Reading

Nowadays more lifters than ever are entering weightlifting competitions. Accordingly, many of these people are new to competition and they may or may not always know what is the best course of action on ... Continue Reading

Much has been written about the trajectory of the barbell on its path upwards. At one time it seemed to many coaches that the ideal upward trajectory would be a straight line. After all, didn't our physics ... Continue Reading

One aspect of weightlifting technique seldom discussed in any detail is the starting position. Most specifically, how to get into that starting position and how quickly the bar is separated from the ... Continue Reading

When we first began planning the new Takano Athletics gym, we did so entirely with the intention of putting together the best weightlifting facility that we possibly could. Of course, equipment was a ... Continue Reading

Weightlifting is not a sport that owes a lot to humor. While many weightlifters are inveterate joke tellers, the jokes usually are derived from other activities and not from their sport. Maybe there just ... Continue Reading

I felt the need to discuss some common mistakes that I see occurring frequently at local weightlifting meets. In an effort to make them more germane to aspiring coaches I’ve chosen this format where I ... Continue Reading

Weightlifting is my sport of choice, but I enjoy the fitness return from incorporating just the right amount of CrossFit mixed mode sessions. Several years ago, prior to a National Masters Weightlifting ... Continue Reading

Veteran weightlifters have spent much of their lives listening to the old stories about how the weights supposedly make athletes slow and uncoordinated. Well, this has been refuted many times in the public ... Continue Reading

Kids are just smaller, slightly weaker adults, right? They’d be fine with the same program you’d give any twenty-something-year-old, wouldn’t they? If worse comes to worst, drop a set off, reduce the reps, ... Continue Reading

1. Weightlifting Will Make You Fat 1. Weightlifting Will Make You Fat While Vasily Alexeev did much to publicize weightlifting during his life he unfortunately also left the impression that you have ... Continue Reading

The topic of women participating in competitive sports, especially those deemed suitable only for men, has always been controversial. One might expect such an attitude to the hyper-masculine weight sports. ... Continue Reading