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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
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
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
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
Improving Your Mental Health: Training Your Body to Feed Your Mind
Ever thought of exercise as food or fuel for your brain? Probably not. Why would you? But exercise is in many ways a brain food and the fuel for proper cognitive function and perspective. Ensuring you get plenty of physical activity is a great way to... Continue reading
Ever thought of exercise as food or fuel for your brain? Probably not. Why would you? But exercise is in many ways a brain food and the fuel for proper cognitive function and perspective. Ensuring you get plenty of physical activity is a great way to... Continue reading
Food and Relationship
Food is a universal experience. All animate life on earth requires it in some form. For humans, as with many other animate lifeforms, food constitutes external fuel sources that we consume, digest, and turn into energy. But food is so much more than ... Continue reading
Food is a universal experience. All animate life on earth requires it in some form. For humans, as with many other animate lifeforms, food constitutes external fuel sources that we consume, digest, and turn into energy. But food is so much more than ... Continue reading
Interview: Kristin Pope
Team USA weightlifter Kristin Pope has had an interesting career path in the sport. Some parts of her history are the kinds of things we hear a lot when lifters tell us their stories: she’s a former gymnast, she was introduced to weightlifting ... Continue reading
Team USA weightlifter Kristin Pope has had an interesting career path in the sport. Some parts of her history are the kinds of things we hear a lot when lifters tell us their stories: she’s a former gymnast, she was introduced to weightlifting ... Continue reading
Weightlifting News: Issue 172
Upcoming National Meets May 9-12 National Championships in Memphis, TN July 24-28 American Open Series 2 in Albuquerque, New Mexico September 12-15 American Open Series 3 in Daytona Beach, FL December 5-8 American Open Finals in Salt Lake... Continue reading
Upcoming National Meets May 9-12 National Championships in Memphis, TN July 24-28 American Open Series 2 in Albuquerque, New Mexico September 12-15 American Open Series 3 in Daytona Beach, FL December 5-8 American Open Finals in Salt Lake... Continue reading
Ask Greg: Issue 171
Ashley Asks: I have been weightlifting for 5 years and cannot seem to break the habit of rocking back on my heels between the first and second pull, especially on the clean. I see it every lift I record: my toes come completely off the ground. T... Continue reading
Ashley Asks: I have been weightlifting for 5 years and cannot seem to break the habit of rocking back on my heels between the first and second pull, especially on the clean. I see it every lift I record: my toes come completely off the ground. T... Continue reading
Bigorexia: Male Body Issues in Weightlifting
You know who Jessica Lucero is, right? US National Champion, World Team member, one of our top American female weightlifters for a long time…I’m sure you know her. Well, a few years ago, Jess wrote an article for the Catalyst Athletics w... Continue reading
You know who Jessica Lucero is, right? US National Champion, World Team member, one of our top American female weightlifters for a long time…I’m sure you know her. Well, a few years ago, Jess wrote an article for the Catalyst Athletics w... Continue reading
Stop Stopping at the Bottom of Your Clean
One of the problems I experienced when I first started Olympic lifting was that I would often stop still at the bottom of a clean. This can become a habit if it is not resolved quickly. It’s unhelpful to pause at the bottom of a clean. It makes... Continue reading
One of the problems I experienced when I first started Olympic lifting was that I would often stop still at the bottom of a clean. This can become a habit if it is not resolved quickly. It’s unhelpful to pause at the bottom of a clean. It makes... Continue reading
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