LATEST BLOG POSTS
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Weightlifting Coach Certification & Affiliate Weightlifting Gym Program: It's Finally Here
Greg Everett
| June 13 2013 |
General
I announced today that we have launched our weightlifting coach certification and affiliate gym program. This has been in the works for a few years now as I’ve wrestled with the question of how to ensure a quality, meaningful certification and a reliable affiliation system.
What I’ve arrived at is a system of certifications validated through both attendance of seminars and in-person and online testing. Certification candidates will have to demonstrate their abilities and kn...
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The Last Two Meets I've Lifted In
Matt Foreman
| June 10 2013 |
Weightlifting
I’ve lifted in two meets over the last four weeks. Normally I would never compete twice in such a short time span, but I’m getting knee surgery in July and I wanted to have as much fun as possible before I’m out of commission for a while. Both of them went really well, and I lifted the biggest weights I’ve hit since I turned forty.
The first one was the IronFest on May 4th, held in Chandler, AZ at East Valley CrossFit. The meet director was August Schmidt, who is the o...
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Warm-up Early
Greg Everett
| June 7 2013 |
Quick Tips
Not all of us have the luxury of a schedule that allows the following, but you may still be able to pull off something similar. One of the great things about training twice a day is that the second sessions always feels great - at least with regard to being warm and loose. Even hours later, you'll still be "warm" from that first workout.
You can get some of that benefit without doing a full workout, and potentially without even going to the gym. Try doing your warm-up in the m...
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To Everybody Who's Training For Something
Matt Foreman
| May 27 2013 |
Weightlifting
About a year ago, there was a sad news story here in Arizona. One of the top high school football coaches in the state died from cancer. He was in his forties and the disease took him quickly. I think there were only six or seven months between the time he was diagnosed and when he passed away. You want to know how he discovered the cancer? He had some pain in his elbow. He thought he banged it up while he was playing with his kids on vacation, but the pain didn’t go away so he decided to ...
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The Relation Of Snatch, Clean & Jerk And Squat Weights
Greg Everett
| May 22 2013 |
Weightlifting
How much should I snatch and clean & jerk if I back squat this much? This is a question I get a lot, and there isn't a simple, formulaic answer. Put simply, it depends on your own strengths and weaknesses. I have seen enormous ranges even just in my own gym, let alone outside of it.
You will have bigger classic lifts relative to your squat if you are:
1. Explosive
2. Technically proficient
3. Experienced in weightlifting
4. Naturally athletic (i.e. coordinated, good at motor ski...
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Rookies, Experts, And Pimps
Matt Foreman
| May 14 2013 |
Weightlifting
Those of you who read Performance Menu (i.e., the cool crowd) got a nice treat a few months ago when we published an interview with Christine Girard, the little Canadian weightlifting tornado who won the Olympic bronze medal in London. She gave us terrific answers to the questions we asked, stuff that provokes some hardcore pondering.
One of the things that caught my attention was Christine’s discussion of how she trains. She’s been lifting for seventeen years now, and she’...
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Progress... Twice As Hard For Half As Much
Matt Foreman
| April 29 2013 |
Weightlifting
In the spring of 1993, I was snatching 120 kilos (264 lbs). I was twenty years old and I had been training as an Olympic lifter for about three years. In my workouts at this time, I was usually doing my snatch pulls with 135-140 kilos. This weight was so heavy…I wondered how the hell I would ever be able to snatch it. It felt like I was trying to drag the Titanic off the floor of the ocean.
But I snatched 137.5 for the first time a year and a half later, in the summer of 1994.
Thi...
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Lots Of Variety? Or Just Sn, C&j, And Sq?
Matt Foreman
| April 15 2013 |
Weightlifting
Ooohhh, this is a good question. Weightlifters and coaches have been debating it for a long time. Let me give you a little more explanation so you know what we’re talking about.
You’ve probably already figured out that there are many different training programs and methods out there. Not all lifters train the same. Hell, not all world champions train the same. A lifter from China wins the Olympics and breaks a world record using a certain type of training program, while another l...
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