Articles in Olympic Weightlifting
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Then It Taketh Away


This is a big month, because I’m going to do something I said I would never do. When I started writing for Performance Menu a couple of years... Continue reading
The Snatch Also Rises


Ernest Hemingway is my favorite writer of all time. His personal life was almost as legendary as the books he wrote, filled with great victories and p... Continue reading
The Role of Strength in Weightlifting


While the premise of this article may at first strike readers as odd, considering that weightlifting, despite considerable elements of skill and speed... Continue reading
How Fast Eddie Got Fast: The Use of Light Weights to Develop Speed and Precision


If you’ve been reading Performance Menu for a while, you know that I love to include a lot of film and literature references in the articles I w... Continue reading
Weightlifting Program Design: A Case Study


Program design is one of those topics that is overwhelming both to read and write about. Most literature is necessarily nebulous and vague, and indivi... Continue reading
Motivation


While I have been wanting to write this article, and my good friend and training partner, Kara Yessie, has been encouraging me to write it, I was avoi... Continue reading
Let Your Freak Flag Fly


When I first got started in Olympic Weightlifting, a very thoughtful coach was nice enough to give me a couple of VHS video tapes with tons of weightl... Continue reading
Beginning Weightlifting as an Adult


In my dreams, I coach in a system like the Chinese, in which I have a few dozen elite lifters handed to me between the ages of 18-20 after they’... Continue reading
So runs my dream, but what am I?


Not long ago, an old friend of mine posted some information on the internet about using barbell exercises to strengthen and rehabilitate an athlete wh... Continue reading
Get Your Hands Off My Burrito…and other team building strategies


I remember my first teaching job. I was twenty-five, graduated from college, and I got a job working at a private high school. The school only had two... Continue reading
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