Best of Olympic Weightlifting
On Weightlifting Scoop #41 Glenn Pendlay, Don McCauley and Travis Cooper sat down to talk about First Meets & Competition Coaching. Download: link to mp3 (66mb, right click + 'save as') First Meet: don't open with something you can't … [Continue reading]
Continuing in his "On Par" Interview series ... Dmitry Klokov interviews Dmitry Lapikov. Thanks to Evgeny Filatov for translating all of part 1 for us. Also thanks to Kirill Kazakov for adding in details. Update 08.08.2013: Part 2 is … [Continue reading]
Dmitry Klokov interviewed Khadzhimurat Akkaev. Check out Dmitry's other interviews here. Update 04.08.2013: Translation completed! 16100 words! Update 11.09.2014: Read Akkaev's 2014 Interview on ATG. Thanks to Kirill Kazakov and Vadim … [Continue reading]
Brian Shaw ... Last time, with 411kg he said "I feel like I could do this anytime that I want to". Below he works up to a 448kg (985lbs) Deadlift. The goal of the workout was to work up to a big single without going over 100%. Since I … [Continue reading]
(Post was oiginally published Jan 17, 2012) Update 2.8.2013: Dmitry Uploaded a tour of his house. Translation from Vadim: This is his father's house, somewhere in Moscow suburbia. His father, Vyatcheslav Klokov, is a 1983 world champion … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Russia ... Dmitry Berestov (now 33 years old young), yes the Athens 2004 105kg Gold Medalist, is back with some huge training lifts. Update 23.08.2013: 190kg Snatch Double ... almost 190kg Snatch … [Continue reading]
Last month in Iran ... I posted this a month ago on the All Things Gym Facebook Page ('like' it and never miss an update), but since then this has been submitted quite a number of times. So I figured I would add that here too. Bahador Moulaei, … [Continue reading]
At the 2013 Crossfit Games Kendrick Farris gave "Isabel" a go. Isabell is one of CrossFit's benchmark workouts. For Time: Snatch 61kg (135 pounds) for 30 reps. Took him 3:21 on his first go. For comparison: It takes top CrossFitters around 1 … [Continue reading]
Dmitry Klokov is back at a 225kg Clean & Jerk at 108.2kg bodyweight. He promised it a while back saying that this would be a seasonal best. Before the lift he says he wants to finish off July with a good weight before he goes to a different … [Continue reading]