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How Can the Skills of Weightlifting Transfer to Other Aspects of Your Life?


I originally took up Olympic weightlifting because I thought it would be a fun way to get fit and strong. It has made me fit and strong, but I also realize that it has given me many other useful skills that benefit the rest of my life. Let’s lo... Continue reading
Master the Minute


In order to progress, you must pay attention to the details, the smaller the better. In the Army, the drill sergeants would have us chant in synchronization with our push-ups,“Attention to detail! Motivation is the key!” There is always a... Continue reading
Comparing RPE and Percentage Based Programming


Over the last few years, there has been a rise in the amount of strength coaches advocating RPE based programming for athletes at all levels instead of the more traditional percentage-based approach. Let’s look over some of the basics of both m... Continue reading
Throwing Everything Off Balance: Asymmetry


Balance! The first thing you probably think of trying to stand on one leg with the other bottom of the opposite foot resting on the medial portion of your knee. That’s right. The stork stance. The next is trying to move across a balance beam at... Continue reading
Interview: Christine Na


Working your way up to the medal podium at the national level in weightlifting is tough. It’s a long, painful road with plenty of setbacks, obstacles, and moments of doubt. It gets even rougher when you sustain a major back injury that requires... Continue reading
Ask Greg: Issue 172


Patricia Asks: I recently competed in a meet where everything was super hectic. The warm-up room only had 4 platforms (there were 26 lifters in my session), there were children running around screaming, someone got in a fight with their coach—i... Continue reading
WPTSD: Weightlifting Post traumatic Stress Disorder


Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has turned into a huge social topic over the last twenty years. From what I can tell, conversations about it started getting more frequent after the United States invaded Iraq and Afghanistan following the 9/11 a... Continue reading
Good Lift, No Lift, Gross Lift


You know it when you see it. You know it when you lift it. You’ve legally managed to power through a lift you’d otherwise be buried by, shaking your head as your feet recover underneath the bar. It felt like shit. It looked like shit. &ld... Continue reading
Injuries: How to Let Them Make You, Not Break You


Injuries come in all shapes and sizes. You may still be able to train with modifications, but they are a hindering nuisance. Or, they can be debilitating where you can’t train at all. Regardless of the severity of them, they’re annoying a... Continue reading
Using Aerobic Conditioning to Improve Recovery


When people think about aerobic conditioning, they usually think about long, slow, boring tasks that transfer over to long, slow, boring events. That is because the aerobic system works in that way. Aerobics is described as the “with oxygen&rdq... Continue reading
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