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Got Vertical? How to Measure for Explosive Strength

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

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Weightlifting Development for Children: The Importance of the Long Term Approach

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

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10 Myths About Olympic Weightlifting That Need to Stop

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

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Women In Weight Sports, Part 1: How It All Started

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

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How Sports Evolve: From Grassroots to Global

I have been involved in the sport of Olympic weightlifting long enough to see some dramatic changes. The sport’s post-Louis Cyr origins were still within

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Athlete Journal: Holley Mangold, Entry 16 – Recovering From Surgery

EDITOR’S NOTE: Welcome to the Athlete Journal of Olympic weightlifter Holley Mangold. Follow her journey here as she trains for the 2016 Olympics! Holley’s journal

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The Barbell War: How the Soviets Ousted American Weightlifting

I have written previously on how the United States lost its monopoly on weightlifting supremacy in the 1950s. This was a blow to the ego,

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Weight Lifting Straps: What They Are, When and Why to Use Them

In my most recent article in WODTalk Magazine, I discussed the “hook grip.” Since I have been on the subject of holding onto the bar

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Does Race or Ethnicity Matter in Athletics?

Whenever a certain country or those of a certain racial or ethnic heritage dominate a certain sport analysts end up looking for the cause of

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The Gold Medal Napkin: How To Avoid Being A Clueless Coach

It’s your first day. You have never practiced the snatch before. You have seen videos. You have watched other people at your gym do them.

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Featured Coach: Greg Everett, Part 1 – The Dream of Professional Weightlifting

For Greg Everett becoming an Olympic weightlifter and weightlifting coach fulfilled a dream, and he intends to spend the rest of his coaching career working

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The Compound Interest Snatch Workout: How To Train Hard And Smart At The Same Time

Last week I wrote an article that can be summed up like this: work harder if you want to achieve your goals. It seems simple

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Rauno Heinla 2022 World Deadlift Championships Master's World Record
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