Olympic Weightlifting: Catalyst Athletics

	True or False: Glucosamine & Chondroitin Keep Your Joints Healthy Beth Skwarecki \| October 1 2014 \| Recovery & Injury Management If you're smart, you think about your knees a lot. They're crucial to lifting, to running, to almost every sport, and they're worth taking good care of. (If you're lucky, you don't have to think about your knees at all; they just work. But not all of us are that lucky.) So if you love your knees--and all your other joints--why not take glucosamine and chondroitin? Those are probably...

	Do I Look Fat in this Gi? Why Women Quit Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Yael Grauer \| October 1 2014 \| Combat Sports The title of this article is a misnomer. It would be impossible for one person to speak for all women--especially a person who's never quit the sport for good, but keeps coming back around like a proverbial prodigal daughter. And as I've learned in many debates, both offline and online, it's often difficult to pinpoint specific reasons for doing or feeling anything and assume that it’s the s...

	Hey Coach, It’s Not All About YOU Matt Foreman \| October 1 2014 \| Olympic Weightlifting Greg Everett once told me that a large percentage of the people who read this magazine are coaches. I always try to keep this in mind when I write articles. Some of you might not be coaches presently, and your focus is entirely on your own lifting. That’s cool. But as I’ve said before, it’s almost impossible to spend an extended amount of time in this sport without somebody askin...

	Weightlifting News: Issue 117 Sam Holmes \| October 1 2014 \| Olympic Weightlifting Upcoming National Meets 2014 American Open Championships: Washington D.C. December 12-15 Upcoming International Meets International Youth Invitational Championship: Colorado Springs, USA, Octob...

	5 Biggest Mistakes in the Snatch and How to Fix Them Travis Mash \| October 1 2014 \| Olympic Weightlifting Coaching at Muscle Driver USA and owning Mash Elite Performance, I work with athletes of all ranges. I have current world-class lifters, some of the best youth in America, and adult CrossFitters learning the Olympic lifts for the first time in their lives. I coach over 200 athletes on the Mash Mafia Online Weightlifting Team. I see hundreds of mistakes every week. Some of the mistakes are slight m...

	Athlete Interview: James Tatum Matt Foreman \| October 1 2014 \| Interviews “That guy with the beard looks pretty good.” That’s what I said the first time I saw James Tatum compete. It was at the 2012 American Open in Palm Springs, I believe. This was the time period when the Great USAW CrossFit Population Explosion, as it will be known in the history books, started to kick into overdrive. I saw a bald guy with a wicked beard competing in the 77 kg class...

	7 Habits of Highly Defective Weightlifters John Grace \| October 1 2014 \| Olympic Weightlifting You know all of those blog posts and articles that urge you to read them to show you how to become more effective and productive with your life? Yeah... this isn't one of those. They're all the same, anyway. You actually end up wasting time and being completely unproductive when you read them. So here we go. 7. Knocking the bar away from the body

	Ask Greg: Issue 117 Greg Everett \| October 1 2014 \| Ask Greg *Ryan Asks:* What can I do to improve on keeping my chest up and ass down on the snatch pull as the weight gets heavier? I find myself bouncing the bar a little too hard off the hips and I now have a bump that hurts. I would appreciate any tips. Thank you. Greg Says: There are two parts to this—first, knowing you need to mainta...

	Recipes: Issue 117 Scott Hagnas \| October 1 2014 \| Recipes Blackberry Gazpacho Active time: 45 minutes Total time: 2 hours 45 minutes • 1.5 lbs. seedless grapes • 1 lb. fresh blackberries • 3 Tbsp. honey • 3 Tbsp. lemon juice • 1 Tbsp. lemon zest • 1/2 tsp. salt Stem and wash the fruit. Place in a large saucepan ov...