Training: Weightlifting Articles
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Train Like A Champion: Technique, Habits and Positivity
Greg Everett
| February 25 2013 |
Training: Weightlifting
Possibly the biggest mistake I see people making with regard to technique training is simply not investing enough time into the training itself. With the easy and usually free access to an abundance of information about weightlifting technique now, it’s easy to spend hours and hours searching, reading and asking about technique, technique training, exercises, corrective drills and then whatever tangential topics sprout out. Yet when it comes to actually applying that information, athletes ......
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Squat Stance & the Olympic Lifts
Greg Everett
| November 13 2012 |
Training: Weightlifting
With the Olympic lifts, it’s easy to wander a little too far down the rabbit hole and find yourself lost amid overwhelming detail. There are times when such detail is necessary and helpful, but at other times, the best course of action is to simplify. Sometimes this just means reassessing a problem with a perspective guided by simplicity—that is, returning to the basics to fix the complex.
If you’re struggling to figure out why your snatch and clean receiving positions are u......
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Program Design: Feelings vs. Planning
Greg Everett
| September 3 2012 |
Training: Weightlifting
There are a lot of different ways to train as a weightlifter, but two broad categories can be described by either planning and prescribing all the numbers (e.g. weights, reps, sets) or training by feel, which can mean making decisions on everything from weights to reps to the actual exercises performed on a given day.
Personally I like it all—nothing to extremes. I believe strongly that there needs to be planning, both short and long term, of an athlete’s training, particul......
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When to Move on, and When to Punch Your Missed Lift in its Stupid Little Mouth
Greg Everett
| May 28 2012 |
Training: Weightlifting
There are times in a lifter’s life when lifts aren’t made. These times are, of course, the absolute worst, and in those moments following a missed lift, athletes can generally find indisputable proof that they’ll never again succeed, why their abilities have already peaked and they’re finally and terminally on the decline, and why, being in such a stage of life, they no longer have any value to the world.
There are two basic responses following a missed lift: To accep......
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Six Truths of Olympic Weightlifting Technique
Greg Everett
| February 14 2012 |
Training: Weightlifting
When it comes to weightlifting technique, there are disagreements. Some are legitimate, some are questionable, and a few are downright silly. But when you sift through it all, there are a few universal Truths when it comes to the snatch and clean. If you can make these following six things happen with a given technical style, you can probably make it work for you.
Truth 1: The lifter and barbell system must remain balanced over the feet.
This is pretty simple. If the balance of the system do......
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The Power Snatch: Uses & Cautions
Greg Everett
| October 5 2011 |
Training: Weightlifting
I’ve nearly always defined a power snatch (or clean) by a receipt above a parallel squat. This is how I was taught. For the most part, I continue to use this definition because it’s served me fine. However, at times I change my expectations based on what I want achieved. My other definition is no less than a 90-degree angle at the knee. This is a considerably higher receiving position—there is no question at this height of whether or not a lift can be classified as power. You w......
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Hips, Meet Bar: The Extension of the Snatch and Clean
Greg Everett
| September 9 2011 |
Training: Weightlifting
Some topics seem to generate more heat that others, and for some reason, the question of how a barbell should come into contact with the body during the snatch and clean seems to get some people extraordinarily wound up. I personally don’t lose any sleep over how anyone else lifts or teaches the lifts. I may agree or disagree, but I don’t let it upset me too much. The following will undoubtedly further upset the same people who are already upset.
In my humble opinion, there is mor......
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Hook Grip or Not Overhead in the Snatch
Greg Everett
| August 20 2011 |
Training: Weightlifting
A common question is whether or not a lifter should keep the hook grip overhead in the snatch. This is one of those issues that doesn''t have a simple answer: it depends. The main issue while holding a barbell overhead is stability: obviously the athlete needs to be able to support the weight. The hand and wrist need to be able to settle in under the weight of the bar to create a cradle that balances the weight properly and doesn''t cause injury. Lifters need to condition the joints over time to......
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Improving the Clean through a Better Turnover
Greg Everett
| August 12 2011 |
Training: Weightlifting
A lot more attention tends to be paid to the third pull or turnover of the snatch than the clean, likely because the consequences of poor execution tend to be more dramatic and obvious, but the turnover of the clean deserves its own share of attention. The timing and precision of the turnover in the clean can be the difference between a make and a miss, or can prevent the recovery from being so taxing that a subsequent jerk fails.
An idea I commonly talk about with my lifters is attempting to......
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Overhead Stability in the Snatch
Greg Everett
| June 17 2011 |
Training: Weightlifting
When an athlete has difficulty supporting the bar overhead in the snatch, it's natural to immediately assume there is insufficient strength and to address the problem with strength work. While this may often be the problem, or at least one part of it, there are other elements to consider that may be preventing the athlete from properly using what may be adequate strength. In some cases, these problems can be corrected very quickly and save everyone a lot of headaches.
When it comes to s......
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