WEIGHTLIFTING NEWS

1976 Makings of an Olympic Champion

1979 World Weightlifting Championships in Thessaloniki, Greece

1979 USSR Spartakiade: This was found in another Strength and Health Magazine from back in the day.

1981 All East Open: From one of the results pages of S&H magazine back in the day, there are some pretty interesting characters

In one of my classic Strength and Health Magazines, he didn’t realize it but Mac was another of those powerful athletes who was an...

1995 From Childhood to Champion Athlete:  One of my first indoctrinations into training kids correctly. Written by one of my favorite...

1991 AAF Coaching Manual:   Always trying to learn from different sources, this international manual was one of my early introductions...

2004 USAW Sports Performance Coach manual: From 20 years ago already, our USAW coaching education program has come a long way and has...

2000 Sydney Olympics, Tara Nott:  A great publication came out after the 2000 Games in Sydney and it had a great shot of Tara Nott with...

1981 Senior Nationals: Quite the battle in the 82.5 kg class at the 1981 Senior Nationals. Great competition by some great competitors.

1981 National Juniors: Several of the lifters who competed at these National Juniors went on to compete in Olympics and Worlds. Anyone...

Fred Hatfield, renowned lifter, coach and educator, once told me, “Training is all about being either good, better or best”. How true! ...

The RDL (Romanian Deadlift) has lots of benefits. No other exercise hits the hamstrings so well in a coordinated fashion with glutes.

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...

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

Whether your sport is powerlifting, strongman, football or any other “strength” sport, the power clean should be part of your workout...

Totten Training Throwback Thursday brings you - Walk Before You Run! Expect Top Notch Advanced Results? Start with Basic Skills First!...

Leo Totten Writes Foreword for James Tatum’s Book “The Physically Prepared Weightlifter: A General Physical Preparedness Program to Build...