Best of Olympic Weightlifting
iPhone / iPad: Check out UberSense. Here is another video analysis /slow motion app you can use to check the form of your lifts. Price: Free, get is here on iTunes Features: side by side comparisons view videos in full speed, slow … [Continue reading]
What's the saying? Somewhere in China there is a little girl warming up with your max. - Click to tweet Well, make that New Jersey and watch this video about Naomi Kutin, a 10 year old girl that is breaking squat world records. Kudos to the … [Continue reading]
Warning: The following can't be unseen. The 2012 London Olympics logo looks like Lisa Simpson performing oral sex. Bwahahaha. Instant classic. via kottke.org … [Continue reading]
And if you havn't already, subscribe to the WliftPro Channel on YouTube. The guy is uploading lots of recent & past weightlifting gems. Like this video of 1987 World Weightlifting Championships. Featuring Antonio Krastev's 216kg Snatch … [Continue reading]
Stumbled acorss this short profile of Naim Suleymanoglu. Gives you a little bit of a background about his reasons for leaving Bulgaria for Turkey. You may have seen some of it in the Naim Suleymanoglu's Olympic Career post. … [Continue reading]
If you like reading through a Google translated interview, check out this one with Behdad Salimi. Olympic records will increase I go on the platform with a foot (leg?) injury The result will be better than Sydney Olympics 85 kg category, … [Continue reading]
Thanks to reader Tom who found the the list of the Chinese weightlifting team for London. Update: Found a fairly recent video from the Chinese training hall (with translation on the right). Men: 56kg: Wu Jingbiao 62kg: Zhang … [Continue reading]
When it comes to lifting odd objects a stability ball filled with water reigns supreme. Ross Enamait has a video of it. He says that he filled that things with over 100 pounds of water. First I was skeptical about the durability, but … [Continue reading]
Thanks to Anna for sending in this video of a Russian tv show called "The Way to the Olympics". It has some footage from the men's training camp in Taganrog (8:25) as well as the women's training camp in Rouza (14:25). As always it would be … [Continue reading]