olympic weightlifting

I start a new series from old time strongman. First videos from Charles Rigolout - 115 kg one hand snatch with olympic bar.

I found a great article about it in allgemeine sportzeitung. I publish it my blog - sorry in hugarian language, please use translate program.

45 kg olympic bar one hand jerk. Bodyweight 62 kg.

I went through a bunch of progressions from a video to learn the hang-power snatch, and I think I've got my technique pretty good. After a bunch of work on the empty bar, I worked up to 3,3,2 with 95lbs. Here's the link to the video of my last set (won't embed for some reason)...

Greetings! Long time listener, first time caller here. I've been introducing the StrongFirst methodology to many of my athletes and coaches. I got a great question from a great coach who I'll call a "skeptic". His question was, do you know of any elite Powerlifters, Oly lifters, or...

Yesterday evening I did my first sets of heavy (for me, at least) back squats since March. While they went well, I still feel like I could use some advice for getting the bar into a better and more comfortable position on my back ('comfortable' being a relative term). Does anyone have any good...

Browsing through the Olympic Weightlifting subreddit, I found this rather amusing compilation of Olympic and three time world champion lifter Shi Zhiyong lifting incredible weights (certainly for a man his size - he's 73kg/160lb) while screaming at the top of his lungs: I don't know how he's...

Some lifters like Simon Kolecki of Poland who could clean and jerk 232.5kg in 2000 and claimed he could not back squat more than 235kg are quite simply very good at the Olympic Lifts while numerous others like Serge Reding of Belgium who could full squat 455kg (about 1,000 pounds) in the late...

I have long been interested in Bob Peoples who pulled 728 back in 1947 at about 185 pounds bodyweight and always enjoy reading any articles written by or about him as he is my favorite lifter. In addition to these articles I was pleased to find that Bob Peoples wrote book titled Developing...