Training Beginning Olympic Lifters, Part 2
This post is meant to be a continuation of http://wp.me/p1XfMm-4A . The idea is to show how to systematically develop technique and a physical foundation for Olympic lifting using some of the...
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Training Beginning Olympic Lifters, Part 1
This will the first in a fun series of posts looking at the old school approach to training Olympic lifters. Between Cross Fit, using the Olympic lifts for athletics, and Bulgarian/Chinese/Flavor of...
Classic Article: Technique and Weightlifting Performance
In a series of articles translated in the Soviet Sport Review, Soviet biomechanist Sokolov wrote about the need for technical mastery of the Olympic lifts for improvements in weightlifting performance. In the...
Assistance Exercises for the Clean
The clean is an exercise that is fundamental to Olympic lifting as it is part of the clean and jerk which is one of the two contested lifts. The clean, and its...
Classic Article: Alexeev’s Training
As I have time, I’ll periodically write about some older, classic articles as many of these are still relevant, interesting because they provide context for why we do things the way we...