Performance Menu Journal Issue 196: May 1 2021

Ask Greg: Issue 196
Greg Everett | Ask Greg | Issue 196 | May 1 2021

Isaac Asks: Do you landmark heights where the bar will be pulled to? Example being the 3rd pull of a Snatch. Do you get athletes to pull the bar to sp... Continue reading

Highly Intelligent People Who Can’t Figure Out Weightlifting
Matt Foreman | Olympic Weightlifting | Issue 196 | May 1 2021

Think of the two or three smartest people you’ve ever known. Seriously, take a second and come up with a few names. The sharpest cookies you&rsq... Continue reading

Virtual Competitions: Reflections and Lessons Learned
Cheng Xu | Olympic Weightlifting | Issue 196 | May 1 2021

Needless to say, this past year has been a whirlwind for competitive weightlifters and coaches at all levels. Athletes and coaches scrambled to refocu... Continue reading

Share the Platform: Part I
Elsbeth Paige-Jeffers | Olympic Weightlifting | Issue 196 | May 1 2021

Transgender athletes belong in strength sports. Transgender athletes belong in sports generally. There has been quite a bit of rhetoric surrounding wh... Continue reading

From The Archives: Beginning Weightlifting as an Adult
Greg Everett | Olympic Weightlifting | Issue 196 | May 1 2021

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

Interview: Jim Schmitz Part 2
Matt Foreman | Interviews | Issue 196 | May 1 2021

“Be a contributor, not a complainer.” As you’ll read in the coming pages, those were Jim Schmitz’s final words in this intervi... Continue reading