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Russian Weightlifting Demands & Paychecks

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Arthur Chidlovski (the guy behind Lift Up) offers an insight into the demands on Russian weightlifters and their paychecks as of 2006. [A] Member of the Russian national team  has 4 main competitions per year. That includes Cup of Russia, European Championship, Russian Championship and World Championship. Prior to each competition, there is a training camp. Overall, […]

Challenge Yourself

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Ross Enamait has quick rant about people asking “What’s the point of [enter exercise here] ?” with triple unders as an example. Something you have probably run into with non-training folks yourself. In my opinion progressing and challenging yourself is the fundamental human trait and the reason we are here in the first place. By […]

Ricky Bruch Documentary

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A reader submitted the Ricky Bruch documentary “Själen Är Större Än Världen” (“The Soul Is Greater Than The World”). The Film that follows Ricky Bruch and is the source for pretty much every mixed video of him. Complete with English Subtitles. Interesting, eccentric guy. Does Jerks with what looks to be in the mid 500s and Box Squats […]

2012 European Weightlifting Championships Start List

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Update: Here are Live Stream links and the timetable The 2012 Europeans in Antalya, Turkey are coming up April 6-16. Thanks to reader Tom for submitting  the final entries (PDF warning). As he  said: Big names as Akkaev, Klokov, Binay and Martirosyan are absent. But Matthias Steiner and Chigishev (edit: and Viktors Scerbatihs & Ruslan Albegov) will […]