Best of Olympic Weightlifting
Here is a highlight of the 2015 Youth World Championships. 15 year old (born 05.05.1999) Liu Weijian from China. He Snatched 140kg (only 4 kg off Youth World Record) and Clean & Jerked 160kg at 69kg! Remember his name. Future senior … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Ukraine ... Here is another exercise demonstration by Oleksiy Torokhtiy. This time he shows you how to Split Jerk. More: Snatch Assistance Exercises Snatch, Clean & Jerk Instruction Power Jerk Instruction … [Continue reading]
Eric Spoto, Mark Bell and not so Silent Mike walk you through the most important Bench Press cues for competition style benching. They also address common technique flaws like butt lifting and how to fix it. … [Continue reading]
After the "Squat Like a Weightlifter workshop", here is the "Clean like a Weightlifter" workshop. One afternoon of coaching by Marco Spanehl compressed into one hour. He uses the bottom up approach to teach the group of non weightlifters the … [Continue reading]
From the 2015 European Championships ... Here is Benjamin Hennequin (85kg, France) in the training hall. This was 2 days out from competition where he won the 85kg category with 165+202kg. (Video also on Facebook) Addendum: … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Russia ... Rashid Itsaev from You Raise Russia visited Tatiana Kashirina again and did a Q&A with her. Watch his first Interview with Tatiana and her coach here. It has a lot of good information. Quick Notes thanks to Sergiy … [Continue reading]
Here are Aurimas Didzbalis' lifts from the 2015 European championships. 189kg World Record Snatch attempt: All Lifts: … [Continue reading]
Update 18.05.2015: Dmitry Klokov's Video from Week 1. Featuring an interview with Justin. Update 15.05.2015: Added Justin's Week 2 Update Below. Click here to jump straight to it. … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Ukraine ... Oleksiy Torokhtiy shows you how to Power Jerk. It's in Russian so if you can help with the translation of the main points please do so in the comments. In the meantime watch his 240kg Clean & Jerk here. … [Continue reading]