Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Olympic weightlifting”
Whether we’re new to strength training or crushing WODs like it’s our jobs, getting strong in the sagittal plane is necessary for strength and power development. As a powerlifting wannabe, squats, deadlifts and presses are my life, but it can’t be my whole life. Lifters are required to be really great at just a few main lifts (three for powerlifting …
“I’m too sick to come in today. Sorry.” I hung up the phone, threw it into a corner, and cried myself back to sleep. “You’ll be okay. It’ll get better,” I’d say. But it got worst. “She didn’t make it,” my mother cried over the phone. “I knew something was wrong; I tried calling all day and she never picked up.” …
The first time I attempted a snatch, I fell on my ass and dropped the barbell on my shin. That was the end of my snatch escapade. My first deadlift was through an absurd CrossFit WOD featuring high reps at a weight I had never pulled before. I couldn’t walk or sit for days as a result, and I avoided …
