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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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.

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

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