Best of Olympic Weightlifting
Your favorite weightlifting podcasters - The Two Doctors sat down to talk in depth with Norik Vardanian. Topics: his injury (herniated disc), core work training in the USOC vs Armenia (watch his 180kg Snatch) his positive test from … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in France ... Here is a big squatting session with 33 year old Benjamin Hennquin (~92kg, France). Thanks to Luis at Powercamp Eleiko Sports Center in Bordeaux for the footage (@powercamp33 on the instas). Benjamin squats up to 280kg for … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Turkmenistan at Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games... Olympic Champion Sohrab Moradi (94kg, Iran) snatches 185kg and clean & jerks 228kg for a new World Record Total! This surpasses Kakhi Kakhiashvili's total WR from … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in the US ... 17 year old Harrison Maurus (77kg) hits a 150kg snatch! More: Watch his 192kg Youth Clean & Jerk World Record. 150kg!!! Did this after waves of triples and doubles first! @teamalphasc @eleikosport @earthfedmuscle … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Ukraine ... 23 year old Oleksandr Pielieshenko (85kg) Snatches 182kg for a new Ukrainian record! A post shared by Aleksey TOROKHTIY (@torokhtiy) on Sep 22, 2017 at 8:19am PDT Update: Aleksey Torokhtiy made a highlights video. … [Continue reading]
Time for another Full Warm Up + Competition Session. 20 year old Simon Martirosyan (113kg here) snatching 191kg, clean and jerking 235kg, (both intl. competition PRs!) at Junior Worlds 2017! He then gave 246kg a shot, which would have been a new … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Czech Republic ... Here is a cool video of 28 year old Jirka Orsag's worlds preparation. In this session he snatched up to 190kg, clean and jerked 240kg and squatted 340kg (PR)! Update: Read the translation below. Thanks to Ivan for … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Iran ... Olympic champ Sohrab Moradi (94kg) clean and jerks 233kg ahead of the Asian Indoor games! More: Watch him snatch 200kg and Clean & Jerk 240kg here. A post shared by Sohrab Moradi (@sohrab.moradiii) on Sep 13, 2017 at … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Latvia ... Rebeka Koha and Ritvars Suharevs set new Snatch PRs! 19 year old Rebeka snatched 100kg for the first time in competition (watch her 99kg snatch at junior worlds here.) 100kg snatch- my new PB on my Saturday competition- … [Continue reading]