WEIGHTLIFTING NEWS

By: Leo Totten, MS, USAW 5 There are a lot of fancy training methodologies out there. How do the Bulgarians train, how do the Chinese tra...

These past couple of weeks have been a terrible stretch of time for our country. With the murder of George Floyd and the renewed interest...

Back in the day, everyone played three sports in school. In fact, we all played our sports in a school setting but then continued to play...

As many of you know, I am the Head Coach and Founder of East Coast Gold Weightlifting Team but I am also the President and Founder of Tot...

One of the points of technique that we always stress is SPEED! I often ask my lifters after a snatch or clean, “Was that lift fast enough...

Split, Timing, Recovery This is Part 2 and will focus on the Split, Timing and Recovery of the Split Jerk. As we discussed in Part 1, the...

Set, Dip, Drive Think about it. We should really never miss a jerk, right? We are pretty much only driving the bar to the top of the fore...

What is a “Snatch Balance” and why do we do them? This might sound like simple questions because everyone knows the answer.

There are many words that have the suffix “ability” attached to it. And they all have significant meanings. Immediately a few come to mind –

Putting It ALL Together - the SNATCH We have discussed all of the key positions and “putting it all together” for the CLEAN, now let’s lo...

Putting It ALL Together - the CLEAN It is one thing to know the key positions and the transition from one to the next, but now we need to...

Power Position, Full Extension and the Transition between the two Continuing on in our series of Key Positions and the transition from on...

Knees, Power Position and the Transition between the two As we mentioned in Weightlifting Key Positions - Part Two, the start position an...

A few years back, a publication of the USOC called the Olympic Coach had a great picture of a weightlifter on the cover coming up with a ...

Floor, Knees and the Transition Between the Two Many lifters lose lifts right off the floor! The optimal start position from the floor an...

Recently, there was a great post on SportEdTV by a good friend and long time mentor, Harvey Newton. Harvey is one of the best coaches aro...

by Christopher Taber – PhD, CSCS, USAW 2 Should there be Resistance Training differences for each of the sexes? It’s common knowledge tha...

From the first article, “Work Your Weak Areas”: Strength – You may have really good technique with lighter weights, but as the weight ge...

No matter how strong your pulls and squats are, you need to be able to hold the weight over your head in a solid, strong manner. If you ...

Here we go again, stealing thoughts from Ron McKeefery’s book, “Weight Room Wisdom”.  This one comes from Teena Murray of the Sacramento ...