Best of Olympic Weightlifting
Marcin Dołęga (at 106.8kg BW) got a 196kg Snatch (after 190kg, x194kg) 226kg Clean & Jerk Adrian Zielinski (85kg) 180kg Snatch and 215kg Clean & Jerk And here is a recording of the +105kg snatch session. 105kg … [Continue reading]
Kirk from Lifthard found some impressive Clean and Jerks from Kazakhs lifters. Kirill Pavlov (77kg) 200 kg Clean & Jerk Alexandr Zaychikov (94kg) 225kg Clean & Jerk Almas Uteshov (94kg) 227kg Clean & Jerk … [Continue reading]
Here is Kendrick Farris, the only male U.S. weightlifter who qualified for London 2012, with some big squats. 273 kgs (602 lbs) x 3 Squat @ 85 kg Thanks for sharing Dan. … [Continue reading]
Just finished watching an awesome boxing documentary Ross Enamait posted earlier this week. Kings of The Ring - History of Heavyweight Boxing 1919-1990. A must watch for boxing fans. Features all the greats from Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, … [Continue reading]
Here is Dmitry Klokov stretching his Tibialis anterior muscle together with all the little muscles in the feet. Similar to the stretches Kevin Cornell showed us. You can see Dmitry's complete warm-up routine here. Check out more drills … [Continue reading]
Hysen Pulaku is greasing the groove with big snatches. Hits 160kg Snatch 3 times and another 200kg Clean and Jerk. This was his 3rd practice which ended at 11PM last night. And another clip from his 2nd session yesterday. 170kg Power Clean! … [Continue reading]
Here is a chart by Steven Low from his book Overcoming Gravity. It compares the difficulty of bodyweight / gymnastics exercises relative to the others. Of course it is hard to compare what is sometimes apples and oranges, but I think he did a … [Continue reading]
Thanks to reader Dan who pointed me towards this video of strongman Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson deadlifting 300kg for 10 reps. So there is less gravity in Iceland, right? RIGHT? … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Russia... Mikhail Koklyaev 140kg stone lift, because why not? … [Continue reading]