Best of Olympic Weightlifting
Just got wind of this one ... Evgeny Chigishev retires. Sad to see him go. What an amazing lifter. Here are his career bests: the 211kg snatch from the 2005 Worlds in Qatar and his 250kg Clean & Jerk at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. … [Continue reading]
Kelly Starrett's buddy Brian MacKenzie is publishing a book called Power Speed Endurance. It also has chapter on upper leg, hip and trunk mobility written by Kelly, which you can download for free. A nice compendium of the stuff we learned from … [Continue reading]
Here is a pre London 2012 clip of the Colombian weightlifting team training together with US lifters, like Kendrick Farris at LSUS. Featured lifters in order of appeareance: Francisco Mosquera, Carlos Berna, Diego Salazar (Silver, Beijing 2008), … [Continue reading]
Miika Antti-Roiko uploaded a video of 19 year old, 75kg European champion Olga Zubova. 120kg Snatch, 150kg Clean & Jerk in what looks like a training competition. Update: Read Olga's Interview on ATG. Update: Thanks to Anna who found … [Continue reading]
Starting Strength has a talk by the man himself, Kirk Karwoski - From Cadet to Captain. Fun talk with some powerlifting pearls of wisdom. He talks about his upbringing mental discipline the importance of setting up each lift exactly … [Continue reading]
Sean Waxman addresses another common weightlifting error - Not Getting Under the Bar Properly. He has some exercises to drill the change of direction so you can get under the bar quicker. … [Continue reading]
Yesterday I stumbled across the following question on reddit: Do you train the Pendlay row as a "main lift" or accessory lift? Commenter shlevon has a really good point about the attitude with which you should approach the exercises. I … [Continue reading]
Here is another crazy weight / bodyweight ratio deadlift. ATG reader Paul Nguyen pulls 306kg (675lbs) at 75kg bodyweight. 4x Bodyweight via Powerliftingwatch … [Continue reading]
Travis Cooper (85kg) gets a 195kg Clean PR. The "Blocks" look also pretty interesting. They looks like one the crash pads you would use for bouldering. I was thinking about getting/ building something similar, so I can finally drop weight in my … [Continue reading]