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Simple Keys For Weightlifting Success
Mike Gray
| April 11 2013 |
Weightlifting
I have noticed over the years that people really try to make this sport much more difficult than it is. Now, don’t get me wrong, this sport by itself is a pain in the ass; however, people then try and complicate it even more by adding things to it.
So to help you out, I am going to list some questions then give you the best answer that I can come up with to save you possibly years of frustrations.
What kind of bar should I get?
How much room do you have left on your credit card? ......
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This Is The Last Thing I'll Ever Write
Matt Foreman
| April 1 2013 |
Weightlifting
This is going to be the last thing I write for Catalyst Athletics. It’s actually going to be the end of my whole journey in the iron sports. I didn’t think I was ever going to say this, but it’s time to finally get it over with.
I’m giving up weightlifting, and everything involved with it. Training, competing, coaching, all the work and the sweat and the pain…screw it. I’m sick and tired of it. After all these years, I just can’t see the point in lyi......
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Spasm!! Spasm!! Dang It!!
Matt Foreman
| March 25 2013 |
Weightlifting
We’re all such a bunch of little go-getters, aren’t we?
We love to train hard. One of the big pleasures in our lives is going to the gym and working our asses off until we’re drained, sore, and completely shot. We want to feel like we made ourselves better, conquered obstacles, or whatever. Everybody who reads this blog knows what I’m talking about, so I don’t need to explain it much more.
And we get sore, right? Actually, it often goes way past “sore.&......
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What The #@%! Just Happened?
Matt Foreman
| March 12 2013 |
Weightlifting
Let me tell you about a little conversation I had recently. This is an exchange between me and one of the gals I coach after she attempted a heavy snatch and missed it.
Me: “Okay, do you know what you did wrong on that one?”
Her: “Yeah.”
Me: “What did you do?”
Her: “I f-----d up.”
I love people. They’re my favorite.
We all know things aren’t always going to be perfect, right? We’re going to miss attempts occasi......
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Some Words From The Olympic Champions
Matt Foreman
| February 25 2013 |
Weightlifting
The London Olympics finished up a few months ago. Recently, I got the new issue of World Weightlifting in my mailbox. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, World Weightlifting is the official magazine of the International Weightlifting Federation. It’s published in Europe and comes out about four times a year. I’ve been subscribing to it since the eighties.
Anyway, this latest issue had the Olympic Games coverage. One of the parts I dug the most was the post-meet interv......
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The Back-off Week
Mike Gray
| February 18 2013 |
Weightlifting
Also known as the de-load week, the back-off week is by far my least favorite week during a training cycle. Coincidentally, as I write this I am wrapping up one right now. If you would have asked me last week at this time I would have told you I couldn’t wait for the damn thing to start, but that was last week and I felt like hell because I thought my body was used as a human pry-bar for the last 3 weeks.
The back-off week is a funny little animal in that you know you need it, yet it ca......
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Diagnose & Prioritize
Bob Takano
| February 11 2013 |
Weightlifting
Over the years I've developed and refined a process for working with new (to me) lifters. I thought it might be helpful to share these thoughts with those of you interested in the art of coaching.
Diagnosis: This process begins the first day when I run a new athlete through the standard exercises of overhead squats, overhead presses, and front squats. I look for joints that are lacking in range of motion, improper alignment of the spine, improper alignment of the skeletal components while sup......
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We Need More Disciplinarians
Matt Foreman
| February 11 2013 |
Weightlifting
Do you want to know one of the things I find most pathetic in weightlifting, and sports in general?
It’s when coaches let their best athletes get away with crappy behavior, simply because they’re the best athletes.
This makes me want to puke. It’s even worse when the coaches make excuses for the athletes and their shenanigans, defending them and playing the “they didn’t do anything wrong” card.
It’s sad to say, but I’ve seen this more tha......
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Learning From Your Misses
Aimee Anaya Everett
| February 6 2013 |
Weightlifting
I used to not think about other people’s training so much—about their mental state and struggles, or the fact that their minds may be racing during training as well. It’s not because I am some selfish bitch who doesn’t care about my teammates, I simply didn’t think that anyone else struggled as I do. I was oblivious.
It took me a lot of years to learn to relax in the gym, to learn that a missed lift wasn’t the end of my world as I know it, but a chance to m......
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You Got A Lot Of Freakin Problems
Matt Foreman
| January 28 2013 |
Weightlifting
Okay, I’m gonna make a list of common problems weightlifters have. Read this and keep a running tally of how many you A) have right now or B) have had in the past. I’ll write them as quotes so they sound authentic.
1) “My lockout sucks. I can pull snatches pretty high and clean a lot of weight, but my lockout when I get the bar over my head is terrible.”
2) “I jump forward in the snatch. I didn’t used to do it, but now I do it all the time and I can’......
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