If you are looking for an Olympic weightlifting program for beginnerscheck out Glenn Pendlay’s A Training System for Beginning Olympic Weightlifters. He tells you not only what to do but why to do a given exercise (and how to chose them). So If you want to get serious with the oly lifts give this a try. […]
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Donny Shankle at the 2011 American Open
Some Donny Shankle lifts from the 2011 American Open. Donny Shankle 157kg, 162kg Snatch Donny Shankle 203kg Clean and Jerk (missed 208kg twice)
Bottom Paused Front Squats with Marilou Dozois-Prévost
Marilou Dozois-Prévost was at Poliquin’s and did some Bottom Pause Front Squats. Notes: longer time under tension -> restrict the reps per set to 2-4 eccentric portion of the exercise 3 to 4 seconds concentric portion is done explosively for dips at 40X0 tempo do 8 sets for dips at 34X0 tempo do 5 to 6 sets 5 to […]
More 2011 American Open Videos
More clips from the 2011 American Open. Kendrick Farris 159kg Snatch Caleb Ward 142kg, 147kg, 151kg Snatch Caleb Ward 172kg C&J
Weightlifting Belts – Why and Which to Use
Over at 70’s Big Justin compiled several posts on weightlifting gear.(Elite FTS also has a post for Virgin Belt Users). Among them are good reasons why you should consider using a lifting belt. One — Generally speaking Two — types of belts Three — how to break in a belt (video) Four — a detailed […]
2011 American Open Weightlifting Videos
Update: Added Results at the bottomUpdate: check out more videos here First videos from the 2011 American Open are being uploaded. I don’t get why USAW does such a poor job in the media department. no good (non-silverlight) live stream taking forever to update their site providing no video recordings, or if so, then days or weeks […]
2011 American Open Webcast Live Stream Link
American Open 2011 are held this weekend. Live Stream Links:Stream Option #1 (Silverlight)Stream Option #2 (Silverlight) Schedule: here Got a non-Silverlight link? Please let us know in the comments.
Ripped Olympic Weightlifters
Whenever I talk about weightlifting with people who are not into the sport they always envision the super heavyweights with their high body fat percentages. Little do they know that lifters who want to start in lighter weight classes are pretty ripped. Rob Macklem has a great example of that fact. China’s 77kg lifter Lu Xiaojun doing […]
Pull – Slow Reverse Pull / RDL Drill
Ben has a nice drill to share. pull slow on the way down, mimicking the first, second pull. I thought about calling it pull/RDL, but we can all see that it’s not actually an RDL. An RDL has a slightly flexed knee all the way through whereas this more or less mimics a reverse weightlifting […]
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