Weightlifting

The best weightlifting videos, articles and interviews from around the web.

Snatch Grip and How to Minimize Torn Calluses

July 23, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Giles Greenwood shares a tip on how to avoid torn calluses when snatch gripping. Keep a straight wrist from the beginning (see photo in his post) to minimize movement of the bar in your hands. Although this initially feels like you’re not gripping the bar as strongly it is, in fact, how your grip is […]

Jared Fleming 170cm (Running) Box Jump

July 22, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Jared Fleming has a 170cm (67inch) running Box Jump. 67″ box jump from several months back at the Olympic Training Center. Fleming is 172cm (5’8″ or 68 inches). He is the moving black pixel in the video. Also check out Kevin Bania’s 162.5cm Standing Box Jump.

Chingiz Mogushkov 180kg Clean Complex

July 22, 2013 By Gregor Winter

The big boy Chingiz Mogushkov busts out a nice little complex with 180kg, which is not quite bodyweight for him. Clean Hang Clean Front Squat x2 Push Press Jerk BTW in another video from today he said that his best Push Press is 245kg (240kg with clean)! Translation from Vadim: KLOKOV: How can a person who weighs […]

Vasiliy Polovnikov 190kg Snatch Double

July 21, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Meanwhile at Norwood Weightlifting … Vasiliy Polovnikov again. This time snatching 190kg for a double. Update: Read Vasiliy’s Interview on ATG. Also check out his 190kg Hang Snatch.

Vasiliy Polovnikov 200kg Muscle Clean + Push Press

July 19, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Meanwhile at Norwood Weightlifting … Vasiliy Polovnikov does 200kg Muscle Cleans (clean without hip contact) + Push Press with 200kg. You don’t see this variation too often, do you? Maybe someone from Norwood can ask him about it (when he uses it / why). Reader Sieg commented: I call this variations of both snatch and […]

Dmitry Klokov Nighttime Nutrition

July 17, 2013 By Gregor Winter

(Originally published 20th June) After hours with Dmitry Klokov … Here Dmitry talks about his night diet. YouTube commenter miken5254 translated this (if you can improve / add points please do so): wakes up ~11am, skips breakfast and goes to train. makes this meal before bed to stave off hunger and to fuel the workout uses […]

Dmitry Klokov 190kg Deficit Snatch Run

July 16, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Today in All Things Klokov … 250kg Deadlift, and Dmitry takes 190kg for a walk. Last time we saw him with that weight it was a normal 190kg Snatch. This time it is 190kg from a deficit. Vadim, from the ATG Chat, who btw translated all the recent Klokov videos for y’all on youtube, mentioned […]

Mikhail Koklyaev 192.5kg Snatch

July 15, 2013 By Gregor Winter

This is why Misha is the most well rounded strength athletes of our time. After 2 years of not training the Olympic lifts (in the video he says that he last snatched in April and got 175kg and had not snatched since) Mikhail Koklyaev busts out a 192.5kg Snatch! Afterwards he says: This movement just cant […]

Vasily Alekseyev The Triumph of Strength Documentary

July 15, 2013 By Gregor Winter

Documentary time! Vladimir, who already translated Ilya Ilin’s Science of Victory, has done it again. He translated “Vasily Alekseyev – The Triumph of Strength” (Триумф силы. Василий Алексеев). This documentary is about the legendary Russian weightlifter Vasily Alekseyev. It takes you through the bright and dark bits of his life and highlights how uneasy his life was. […]