Following the 2017 USA Weightlifting Nike National Junior Championships — the last American qualification event for several international Youth and Junior competitions in 2017 — USAW has named its first ... Continue Reading
The DO’s and DON’Ts of Assistance Training
Assistance training can be a great tool for coaches and athletes to add quality muscle, improve movement patterning, and address specific faults and performance leaks. In earlier articles, I discussed ... Continue Reading
Wes Kitts’ 201 Kg Power Clean Is One of the Heaviest We’ve Ever Seen
The 105 kilogram weightlifter Wes Kitts has just pulled off the heaviest power clean we've seen from an American in recent memory: 201 kilograms, or 443 pounds. A post shared by Wes Kitts ... Continue Reading
69kg Liao Hui Makes a 150kg Snatch Look Like a Warm Up
Chinese weightlifter Liao Hui appears to be crushing his training without missing a beat. In December 2016, Hui made a return to training - after a shocking pre-Rio retirement announcement - with ... Continue Reading
The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Weightlifting Club at College
If you’re a college student and you love the sense of accomplishment from throwing knee-quivering PRs over your head, you don’t want to train alone. It won’t maximize your potential and it won’t minimize ... Continue Reading
European Weightlifting Championships Start List and Preview
The initial start list for the 2017 European Weightlifting Championships has been released, and weightlifting fans the world over are in for a great competition if everyone on the list is able to compete. ... Continue Reading
Wes Kitts Smokes a 215kg Clean & Jerk (5kg Off the American Record)
California Strength is a strength and conditioning facility known for their impressive roster of weightlifting athletes. One of their seriously strong athletes is 26 year old 105kg weightlifter Wes Kitts. ... Continue Reading
Caitlin Hogan Unofficially Breaks 9 Year Old American Weightlifting Record
Records are made to be broken, and that's the mindset 2016 USA Weightlifting (USAW) National Champion Caitlin Hogan is training with on a daily basis. This past weekend, in preparation for ... Continue Reading
Watch Thuridur Helgadottir’s Epic Double Save in the Clean & Jerk
Now, this is a lift that will go down as one of the craziest saves we’ve seen at a weightlifting meet. Thuridur Helgadottir is an athlete who is rapidly making a name for herself in her home country of ... Continue Reading
Allie Wiseman Overcomes Spinal Disease to Compete at USAW Junior Nationals
Allie Wiseman, 19, is a New Jersey teenager with a remarkable and unusual story behind her journey to the national weightlifting platform. Next week (February 24-26th), Wiseman will be among the ... Continue Reading
7 Things Only People Cutting Weight Will Understand
Dieting and exercising for weight loss is seldom as fun as trying to gain weight. A lot of smart coaches advise that if you’ve been competing for less than a year, you shouldn’t cut at all — you ... Continue Reading
Do You Agree With These Top 10 Strength Feats of All Time?
The very smart folks over at Juggernaut Strength Training Systems are stirring up trouble with a well-researched, but unavoidably controversial list: the top ten strength feats of all time. A ... Continue Reading
The Ultimate Preview of the 2017 USA Weightlifting Junior National Championships
On February 8th, USA Weightlifting published the latest version of the athlete start list for the 2017 Junior National Championships; to be held February 24th to 26th of this year in Kansas City, Missouri. ... Continue Reading
Clarence Kennedy Talks Switching to Powerlifting, Vegan Ethics, and Rabid Reddit Fans
Clarence Kennedy is a bit of an enigma in the weightlifting world: strong as an ox, quiet as a mouse, he's a weightlifter with no interest in competing, and he's the creator of one of ... Continue Reading
International Weightlifting Federation Releases 2016 Executive Board Minutes
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has released minutes from their Executive Board Meetings that were held throughout the year in 2016. The calendar year of 2016 through January of this year ... Continue Reading
3 Reasons Why Weightlifters Should Do Sumo Clean Pulls
When we look at the pulling movements in formal weightlifting programming, we often see clean and snatch grip pulling variations, from various heights, tempos, and intensities. While those are all ... Continue Reading
Watch 94kg Weightlifter Nathan Damron Squat 595 Pounds for 5 Reps
At this point, Nathan Damron is a bona fide phenomenon. The 94kg American weightlifter — just off his record-breaking performance at the 2016 American Open — posted an Instagram video of a beautiful set ... Continue Reading
Can You Use Olympic Weightlifting to Get Better at Boxing?
There’s an old Hungarian proverb that goes, “A man with one ass can’t ride two horses.” If you want to be great at something, don’t try to be great at anything else – pick a goal and focus. ... Continue Reading
The Russia Weightlifting Cup Is Currently Streaming Live
The Russian Cup is currently in full swing and it has three cameras streaming live. Currently there are two platform cameras and one camera on the warm-up room. To check out the stream follow this ... Continue Reading
Kianoush Rostami Wins IWF’s Lifter of the Year, Two Days After Being Dropped From National Team
One day after the Kianoush Rostami was dropped from Iran's national weightlifting team, the International Weightlifting Federation has named him 2016's male Lifter of the Year. The award is decided by a ... Continue Reading
7 Strategies to Improve Recovery and Adapt from Hard Training
Recovery and adaptation at the physiological level (muscles, cells, endocrine system, etc) is critical for every athlete, especially when determining the differences between an elite lifter versus a very ... Continue Reading
Learn How to Pattern a Stronger, Healthier Squat with These 3 Movements
When preparing for squats and other movements, primer exercises can be highly beneficial for reinforcing and developing the correct neural patterning needed to promote the intended movement ... Continue Reading
Watch 77kg Weightlifter Jeison Lopez 5-Second Pause Hang Snatch 130kg
Professional Colombian weightlifter Jeison Lopez, 17, is the definition of a powerful teenage athlete. He competes in the youth 77kg weight class and continually pushes new limits. Lopez has his eyes set ... Continue Reading
Sara Sigmundsdottir Breaks Multiple Icelandic Weightlifting Records in Reykjavik
CrossFit Games athletes sometimes get flack for being too “fit” and not sufficiently specialized, with the implication that trying to be “pretty good” in every area of fitness will result in an athlete ... Continue Reading