Best of Olympic Weightlifting
Meanwhile in Iran's training hall ... Here are some clips from what I guess was the pre London 2012 training camp. Navab Nasirshelal (105kg) 300kg Squat Iran's Saeed Mohammadpour (94kg) 220kg Clean & Jerk Saied Sayar(105kg) … [Continue reading]
The ParalympicSportTV Channel starts to upload some of the London 2012 Powerlifting events. Here for example is the Men's 90kg. Egypt's Hany Abdelhady took it with 241kg (attempt at 42:00). 8kg more than the second. Men's 90kg A … [Continue reading]
Update: Looking for Weightlifting Technique Posters? The TrueWeightlifting Channel on YouTube pumps out tons of videos. The description of the following video roughly translates to "Methods of improving the technical skills of … [Continue reading]
Update 2016: Looks like the app no longer exists on the Google Play Store. Alternative: BarSense Android: Check out Platform Helper, a bar path analysis app for your phone. Platform Helper generates slow motion videos of your … [Continue reading]
As you have probably heard by now, on 3. November there will be a "Backyard Meet" at Supertraining Gym. No prize money involved. Just lifting for the sake of lifting. And there are some pretty high profile names expected to be there, like Stan … [Continue reading]
Another World Record went down in the London 2012 Paralympics Powerlifting. This time Liu Lei of China (67.5kg category) bench pressed 226kg. Up 1.5kg from his last world record. … [Continue reading]
Here is one of those "present weightlifting to the public videos" from Russia. Shows Apti Aukhadov among others. As always, if they have something interesting to say, please translate the key points in the comments. Update: Thanks to … [Continue reading]
Just stumbled across a Dmitry Klokov interview that was published on 27. August 2012. Not much information about the injury itself, but it gives some insights into how he experienced the whole situation and what goes on in an athletes head after … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile at the 2012 European Youth Championships ... 17(?) year old Armenian, Andranik Karapetyan, snatched 154kg and Clean & Jerked 176KG @77kg. At the World Junior Championships in Guatemala this year he was a 69kg and lifted 136kg / … [Continue reading]