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Try This Mobility Routine to Help Your Olympic Lifts
Mobility enables athletes to execute Olympic lifts with proper technique. Adequate mobility helps establish full range of motion, efficient movement patterns, and stability during dynamic lifts. In mid July 2025, sports performance coach and British Olympic weightlifting expert Sonny Webster shared exercises specifically tailored to improve Olympic lifts. Mobility Routines to Help With Olympic Lifts Ankle Dorsiflexion Ankle…
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Getting a Grip on Deadlift Strength Standards, With Insight From a Competitive Weightlifter
We love the deadlift, and you should, too. Pulling weight from the floor strengthens your posterior chain (hips, glutes, hamstrings, and back), increases bone density, and reinforces one of the most fundamental movement patterns we engage in daily — the hip hinge. (1) Get your mitts around one of the best barbells and read on…
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The Differences Between Hip Contact vs. Thigh Contact in Weightlifting
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Weightlifting Blocks vs. the Hang: The Differences & When to Use Each
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What Are the Differences Between Powerlifting vs. Weightlifting?
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What Are Hang Lifts in Weightlifting? Plus, How to Use Them for More Strength
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Here’s Every American Weightlifter Who Has Won an Olympic Medal
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8 Quick Tips to Help You Nail Your First Weightlifting Workout
Weightlifting Basics
What Is Weightlifting?
Weightlifting is a weight-classed strength sport and Olympic Games event. In weightlifting competitions, athletes perform two barbell-only exercises; the snatch and the clean & jerk.
Both events entail moving a loaded barbell from the floor to being held overhead at arm’s length. Athletes who compete in weightlifting are ranked on the sum of their heaviest successful snatch and clean & jerk, which is called a Total. Out of all major strength sports, weightlifting is widely considered to be the most intricate to learn, due to the complex techniques of its two movements.
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Ruslan Nurudinov (109KG) Sets World Record Clean & Jerk In Manama, Bahrain
The 2024 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Manama, Bahrain, from Dec. 6-15, 2024, witnessed the shattering of more than a handful of world records. With only six months until new weight categories become the norm in June 2025, history was made in Bahrain. In the Men’s 109KG class, Ruslan Nurudinov of Uzbekistan scored the overall gold with…
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2024 IWF World Championships Results
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Suk Ri (64KG) Scores Two World Records at 2024 IWF World Championships
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Zhao Jinhong (45KG) Achieves Two Records at 2024 IWF World Championships
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Karlos Nasar (89KG) Sets Snatch and Total World Records at 2024 IWF World Championships
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IWF Approves New Weightlifting Categories Starting June 2025
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Karlos Nasar Smashes 3 Unofficial Records Ahead of 2024 World Weightlifting Championships
