Best of Olympic Weightlifting
Recently in the press conference you heard that he wants to be a coach. As he previously mentioned Ilya Ilyin is enrolling in a 3 year program in the Kazakh Academy of Sports and Tourism. He wants to improve the weightlifting program he uses. For … [Continue reading]
Thanks to Roberto who keeps the Bulgarians 1988 clips coming. We continue with Stefan Botev and a 200kg Snatch (? 3 big reds + 1 slimmer 15kg?). Also check out this article (Update: original article was removed.) about Botev where he talks … [Continue reading]
More Behdad Salimi training hall clips trickle in 220kg Clean & Jerk Navab Nasirshelal saw this and was like "220kg huh? Trow 5kg on. I got this!". 225kg Clean & Jerk attempt … [Continue reading]
If you don't want to wait 4 years until all the London 2012 weightlifting recordings will be uploaded to YouTube or don't want to stream them from the BBC then mother Russia has you covered. Torrent site rutracker.org has most the sessions (Good … [Continue reading]
This will satisfy your weekly monthly dose of half naked Justiness. Adding to his recent post on causes for Hyperlordosis he made a video explaining how to find your psoas. roll on one side imagine a line connecting the hip bone and belly … [Continue reading]
Here is what a day in Kai Greene's life looks like. No glitz, no glamour. Just the daily grind. Part 1 & 2 below. Part 3 here Part 2 … [Continue reading]
Chad Vaughn goes over the the basics of & reasons for the (Olympic style - as low as you can, as upright as you can be) squat. Show that to people saying that you shouldn't squat below parallel. Non Evans would approve that DSP. Update: … [Continue reading]
More Front Squats from Finland. Milko Tokola is at it again. This time 200kg x3 and 205kg x1 at 82kg. Thanks Phil. … [Continue reading]
A reader submitted this article where Sergey Syrtsov, president of the Russian Weightlifting Federation, discusses Slivenko, Klokov and Akkaev. Syrtsov's finds some pretty harsh words: "Даже не так обидно с Аккаевым, потому что ему действительно … [Continue reading]