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Strength Lifts and Classic Lifts for Weightlifting
Greg Everett
| May 7 2011 |
Training: Weightlifting
This discussion will not die, so I will poke at it a bit more. US weightlifters need to get stronger. This is the refrain repeated endlessly from many outside the weightlifting community. From inside the community, the response is essentially a unanimous agreement in principle - of course in a strength sport athletes need to get stronger. Where the argument really exists is with regard to what exactly that means and how to achieve it.
First, weightlifters compete in the snatch and clean &......
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Weightlifting Technique Drills & Training Lifts
Greg Everett
| April 29 2011 |
Training: Weightlifting
There seems to be a bit of discussion on technique training and strength training for weightlifters, and it's made me think of a couple points I want to clarify. First, how do you define a technique drill or a training exercise? In my opinion, the difference is based on the purpose, and a symptom is usually different loading and volume. We should also understand the difference between these two things and a learning/teaching drill.
A learning drill is an exercise intended to teach someone a ......
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Correcting Jerk Weaknesses
Greg Everett
| March 11 2011 |
Training: Weightlifting
Gerasimos Asks: Hello i want to ask a question about jerk training. When a lifter has a weak jerk (strength or technique) is better to perform jerk and assistance exercises in front or behind the head?
There are a huge number of possible causes for problems with the jerk. Since this question explicitly asks about both strength and technique, yet doesn't describe any specific issue, I'll try to cover both topics in a general sense without being so vague it's useless. Eventually I'll try......
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Predicting Snatch and Clean & Jerk 1RMs
Greg Everett
| February 18 2011 |
Training: Weightlifting
Iain Asks: What do you use as a predictor for a 1rm in the snatch and clean & jerk in training/ competition? (I know that there can be many many variables to consider)
This is an interesting question because there are no straightforward answers and a good number of opinions on how to approach it.
First let’s talk about training and then we’ll get to competition. For all the 1RM formulas out there, nothing works like actually performing a max lift. There is far too m......
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Grip Strength and Training for Weightlifting
Greg Everett
| November 26 2010 |
Training: Weightlifting
Grip for the snatch and clean is a topic very important to me personally as someone with relatively small hands. For most lifters my size, grip is not an issue because they tend to have fairly large hands and easily get better coverage on the bar. Even my lovely wife Aimee's fingers are almost as long as mine, and she gets to lift on a bar 3 mm smaller.
There are a million ways to train grip strength and related abilities and quite an array of movements and positions. However, if we're t......
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The Push Press: Use Your Legs
Greg Everett
| November 13 2010 |
Training: Weightlifting
An exercise I use very frequently both in training and teaching is the push press. The push press has tremendous utility in a multitude of senses and should definitely be a staple of any strength training program.
As an intermediary between the press and the jerk, the push press largely splits the difference and shares features of both the press and jerk. Interestingly (at least to me), I see the majority of people thinking of it strictly as an upper body movement, and being more closely rel......
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Bodyweight & Weightlifting Competition
Greg Everett
| October 15 2010 |
Training: Weightlifting
One of the obvious questions in a sport with bodyweight categories is which category to compete in. This will vary among athletes and sports. The scheduling of weigh-ins is probably the biggest determining factor in how dramatically an athlete can play with his or her weight. In sports with weigh-ins 24 hours before competition, huge amounts of weight can be lost through dehydration to make weight, and then subsequently gained back with no detrimental effects. In the sport of weightlifting, on t......
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Sample Weightlifting Flexibility Program
Greg Everett
| October 1 2010 |
Training: Weightlifting
Flexibility is easily the biggest limiter for athletes starting to use the Olympic lifts. Of course, stretching is also the most boring thing you can possibly do. Getting someone flexible is less about what works and what doesn't, and more about what the individual will actually do consistently for the time it takes to get the job done. I've found too that giving suggestions is rarely adequate; people need to be told exactly what do to and be held accountable, or that fancy stretching pro......
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The Role of Strength in Weightlifting
Greg Everett
| August 1 2010 |
Training: Weightlifting
While the premise of this article may at first strike readers as odd, considering that weightlifting, despite considerable elements of skill and speed, is very clearly a strength sport, there exist quite a few perspectives regarding the role of strength in the training of weightlifters; or, more accurately, regarding the appropriate degree of emphasis of what might be considered non-specific strength work.
The spectrum is represented on one end by Bulgarian-style training, involving little o......
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Weightlifting Program Design Case Study
Greg Everett
| June 29 2010 |
Training: Weightlifting
Program design is one of those topics that is overwhelming both to read and write about. Most literature is necessarily nebulous and vague, and individuals interested in learning more often find themselves inundated with a collection of concepts that fail to fit together easily than with a set of practical rules they can implement.
So instead of talking about ideas in this article, I want to run through the process of actually designing a real program and discuss the rationale for various de......
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