Weightlifting

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

Pull – Slow Reverse Pull / RDL Drill

December 1, 2011 By Gregor Winter

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 […]

Setting Up for Olympic Lifts Mobility Mobility WOD

December 1, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Top-Down? Bottom-Up? Here is Kelly Starrett showing you how to get into a good starting position for the Olympic lifts.

Mixing CrossFit Metcons with Olympic Weightlifting

November 30, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Greg Everett answers a question on how to integrate high intensity CrossFit™ metcons into Olympic weightlifting programs. First, strength drives everything. [..] So what we see is a big need for local muscular endurance or stamina; what could also be called strength endurance. What’s the foundation of strength endurance? It’s right there in the name, and it’s […]

Leonid Taranenko 266kg Clean and Jerk

November 30, 2011 By Gregor Winter

World Record Wednesdays with Leonid Taranenko 266kg Clean and Jerk – this is the largest amount ever lifted in competition

Sweeping the Bar by Don McCauley

November 30, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Sweeping the Bar by Don McCauley. Purpose: getting an optimal pull on the bar, engaging the lats

Dirty Dancing Drill by Don McCauley

November 29, 2011 By Gregor Winter

The Dirty Dancing Drill by Don McCauley. Purpose: teaching how to extend / withdraw the hip quickly and activate the glutes 10 of these withing 6 or 7 seconds

Rock and Roll Snatch Drill by Don McCauley

November 29, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Check out the “Rock and Roll Drill” by Don McCauley. Purpose: teaching how to go from the scoop to the power position in the snatch.Emphasis is on teaching how to lift with the hip rather than with knee extension.

2011 WWC +105 kg Group C

November 26, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Here is some footage of the 2011 World Weightlifting Championships +105 kg class Group C. Probably interesting for all you US readers is Patrick Mendes (7:30) with a 172 kg snatch, later missing 177 kg and 205 kg C&J. Lifters in that Group VORNIK DzmitryMORALES NAVAS Yoel JoseKRUZEL OndrejPOKUSA MichalKAPLIN DmitriyCAMPOS MURILLO Carlos ManuelREIS FernandoPROCHOROW AlexejOHMAN RagnarMENDES PatrickKELLY […]

Vasily Alekseyev Died

November 25, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Vasily Alekseyev died from acute heart problems today. Vasily Alexeev, double Olympic champion in Munich 1972 and in Montreal 1976, eight times World Champion, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, and Honored Coach of the USSR died today. Vasily set 80 world records and 81 records of the USSR, including eternal world record Total […]