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Greg Everett
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Get it Behind Your Neck
Greg Everett
| December 17 2012 |
Weightlifting
The overhead position for the snatch and jerk is critical both for successful lifting and safety. Lifts from behind the neck can be a big help in improving these overhead positions through increased strength, mobility and consistency in position.
Overhead lifts starting from behind the neck allow a straight bar path to the overhead position, simplifying the movement and making it easier for the athlete to get the bar into position properly. This helps ingrain the feeling of the correct positi......
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The 2012 American Open, or The Weekend I Almost Killed Matt Foreman
Greg Everett
| December 5 2012 |
Weightlifting
The dust has settled for the most part after the 2012 American Open in Palm Springs, California, so I’m going to see if I can do a recap of the weekend. This year we had 12 lifters competing—I believe that made us the second largest team there behind the juggernaut East Coast Gold (technically 11 since Caleb lifts unattached—details).
Normally the American Open is somewhere in the Midwest or on the East Coast. Getting to spend a December weekend in Palm Springs was incredib......
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Now Available! Weightlifting Programming: A Winning Coach's Guide
Greg Everett
| November 28 2012 |
General
I'm extremely excited to release this book, and am very proud to have published it. Weightlifting Programming: A Winning Coach’s Guide by Bob Takano is the most thorough English-language book available on the subject of program planning for Olympic-style weightlifting. Takano covers the theoretical and practical issues, the biological and mathematical underpinnings, and provides a straightforward process for developing training programs with plentiful examples.
You can order the book......
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Dumb Weightlifting Questions
Greg Everett
| October 17 2012 |
General
It was suggested to me by our talented editor Yael that I write an article about “dumb” weightlifting questions. I turned to the internet’s leading repositories of dumb questions—Facebook and Twitter—for some ideas. The following are some of the better ones you provided me. She told me my answers were obnoxious and unhelpful so I'll be doing a real version in the Performance Menu next month, but I figured these shouldn't go to waste. Please note that none of these a......
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Weightlifting Programming: A Winning Coach's Guide - Pre-Order Now
Greg Everett
| October 16 2012 |
General
I'm very excited to announce that Bob Takano's new book, Weightlifting Programming: A Winning Coach's Guide, is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com.
For a systematic approach to designing programming for competitive weightlifters, there is nothing better in the English language than this book. All coaches, from beginning to experienced, should have this book on their shelves.
Table of Contents
Section A: Introduction
Chapter 1: The Problem, The Dilemma
Section B: Sports......
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The Power Jerk: Yes, It Has Uses
Greg Everett
| October 10 2012 |
Quick Tips
I've always hated power jerks, like most people who split jerk as their prefered jerk method. It's awkward, uncomfortable and difficult. But I have a grudging respect and appreciation for the exercise because it can be immensely valuable as a training exercise for split jerkers. The power jerk forces a solid, strong dip and strong drive, and possibly more importantly, a balanced and correctly oriented drive. With the split jerk, a lifter can get away with a certain amount of imbalance or forward......
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Snatch and Clean Extension: Be Patient
Greg Everett
| September 17 2012 |
Quick Tips
A big mistake with the snatch and clean is trying to initiate the final explosion too soon. This can create a list of problems, including shifting your balance too far forward, pushing the bar away from your body, preventing a complete extension of the hips, and limiting the speed and height of the bar. Bring the barbell back into your body as it leaves the floor, and continue using the lats to push it back into the hips - not near the hips, but actually into the hips. If the barbell never touch......
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Move Your Feet
Greg Everett
| September 5 2012 |
Quick Tips
Do you find that your feet never quite end up where they need to be when you snatch or clean? For example, they're always too far behind you? Try actively lifting your feet and stomping them flat on the platform, focusing on landing on the whole foot, not the balls of the feet, and directly under the bar. You might be surprised how much it improves your balance and position when receiving the lift.
Now before you go and tattle on me, I'm not telling you to lift your feet way up into the air. ......
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Spread the Bar, But Not That Way
Greg Everett
| August 29 2012 |
Weightlifting
A lot of people have been cued to "spread the bar" or "pull the bar apart" when overhead in the snatch. I'm not a big fan of this cue, because in my mind, the effort to pull a bar apart means gripping it tightly. A tight grip on the bar overhead and/or as you're trying to finalize the lockout will slow the elbow extension down and limit how well the elbows can ext
end.
If you want to think of spreading the bar, do it by pushing the bar apart through youir palms. Push the ......
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Getting Under the Split Jerk Properly
Greg Everett
| August 27 2012 |
Quick Tips
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who are good at the jerk, and those who are not. For the latter group, there are so many things that can go wrong or be misunderstood that it can be very daunting to correct the movement. One of the big problems is moving into the split posiiton properly.
First, it's important to understand that the dip and drive of the jerk, whether split, power or squat, is vertical. In fact, the bar actually needs to move backward slightly as it moves into ......
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