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Fighting for Your Weightlifting Career After Getting Bushwhacked


Let’s talk about the best ways to deal with getting bushwhacked in weightlifting, shall we? You might not realize it, but this is one of the most important mental skills you can have in this sport.   First, let’s make sure we all u... Continue reading
Body Weight – Workout Anywhere


Using your body weight, you can work out without any equipment and do it in any place you are. The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has changed life as we all knew it forever, so much that simple every day aspects like going to the gym has become something... Continue reading
Red Meat is NOT Bad for You: Part 2


Part one of this series outlined that due to the high probability of confounding factors and the low relative risks that are consistently reported in epidemiological studies, it should be considered an embellishment to say that red meat causes cancer... Continue reading
Overhead Stability: How To Get It & How To Keep It Once You Have It


Lots of people can’t put their arms over their heads by the time they hit 30,  and then they join a CrossFit gym and get hurt doing 500 snatches for time. Without sounding like a hater or getting into the reasons why that’s maybe not... Continue reading
Observations of The Snatch and Different Body Types


The snatch is very dependent on joint mobility and precise technique. However, people of many different body types have been successful with variances in that technique. Differences in limb length and hip anatomy call for slight changes in coaching c... Continue reading
Environment vs. Programming: Which is More Important?


This is one of those articles where the title basically explains the main idea. We’re going to take a look at two of the most significant factors in a weightlifter’s success: programming and training environment. And we’re going to ... Continue reading
Mindfulness in Olympic Weightlifting: A Practical Guide, Part 3: The What and the How of Mindfulness, Bringing it All Together


In this last article in the three-part mindfulness series, I want to bring both the what (observe, describe, and participate) and the how (non-judgmentally, one-mindfully, and effectively) skills together and carve out the pathways to reaching that m... Continue reading
Ask Greg: Issue 194


Paula Asks: Why do my knees come in when the bar is above the knees before I extend in snatch?    Greg Says: It’s usually a combination of weak hips and slack in the system. Include accessory and prep work that strengthens transvers... Continue reading
Interview: Fred Lowe


We do athlete interviews every month in this magazine, and we’re always happy to do them with many of the biggest names in USA weightlifting. But it’s not very often that we get to interview a living legend. That’s exactly what Fred... Continue reading
Red Meat is NOT Bad for You: Part 1


Red meat increases your risk of dying, red meat is as bad as smoking, red meat causes heart disease, red meat causes cancer. These are the type of headlines that get all the attention over the years for reasons I cannot understand other than the fact... Continue reading
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