The Olympic lifts and their variations are used extensively in the conditioning of athletes. This is because they are a ground-based, total-body exercise that develops power against resistance. While competitive weightlifters and...
The training of Olympic lifters is always fascinating to many people that are interested in strength and conditioning because it is very different from how bodybuilders approach training. It’s not unusual for...
Over the course of several posts (http://wp.me/p1XfMm-4A , http://wp.me/p1XfMm-4F , http://wp.me/p1XfMm-4L , and http://wp.me/p1XfMm-4S ), we’ve covered taking a systematic approach to the training of both absolute beginners as well as national-caliber...
This post continues the workouts described in http://wp.me/p1XfMm-4L . Our athlete is preparing for the American Open and the previous workouts took us from April through July. This post will cover August...
In two previous posts (http://wp.me/p1XfMm-4A and http://wp.me/p1XfMm-4F ), we covered the training of a beginning Olympic lifter using the kind of exercise variety and progressive, systematic training that used to be employed....