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What Should My Elbows Be Doing in the Jerk?
The rack and dip positions are absolutely essential in increasing the likelihood that your jerk will be successful, but there are lots of factors to think about. Here are a few. Rack position Elbow height: It is best to keep the elbows as high as p... Continue reading
The rack and dip positions are absolutely essential in increasing the likelihood that your jerk will be successful, but there are lots of factors to think about. Here are a few. Rack position Elbow height: It is best to keep the elbows as high as p... Continue reading
Social Media, Comparison, and Self Destruction
Social Media is a very powerful tool. It can either build you up or tear you down. 15 years ago, social media was a fairly new concept and Myspace was all the hype. Athletes would have to wait in suspense until a competition to see what thei... Continue reading
Social Media is a very powerful tool. It can either build you up or tear you down. 15 years ago, social media was a fairly new concept and Myspace was all the hype. Athletes would have to wait in suspense until a competition to see what thei... Continue reading
Weightlifting for Contact Sports Athletes
Weightlifting has a place in every weight room. Of course, I’m slightly biased because I love the sport, but I also think that it is one of the best forms of education—not just for physical exercise, but also for many other components of ... Continue reading
Weightlifting has a place in every weight room. Of course, I’m slightly biased because I love the sport, but I also think that it is one of the best forms of education—not just for physical exercise, but also for many other components of ... Continue reading
Coaching Under Constraints: Sprinting and Jumping
It was January in Illinois. The temperature outside was -22 with wind chills of -50 (or colder). Everything was closed, everyone was stuck inside, and we were two days away from an indoor track meet. All over the state, the Midwest really, coaches we... Continue reading
It was January in Illinois. The temperature outside was -22 with wind chills of -50 (or colder). Everything was closed, everyone was stuck inside, and we were two days away from an indoor track meet. All over the state, the Midwest really, coaches we... Continue reading
Motivational Tactics for Consistent Training and Nutrition
Do you like to exercise? Do you enjoy the feeling of sweat dripping off your nose, your muscles screaming for oxygen and the challenge of making it through a high volume set of back squats? Odds are, if you are visiting this site, you do or are conte... Continue reading
Do you like to exercise? Do you enjoy the feeling of sweat dripping off your nose, your muscles screaming for oxygen and the challenge of making it through a high volume set of back squats? Odds are, if you are visiting this site, you do or are conte... Continue reading
When It’s in Your Blood: Dealing with Internal Conflict in Weightlifting
Back when I was competing on the national scene in the 90s, I had a conversation with another lifter that I’ve never forgotten. Know what I mean? It was one of those times when somebody says something to you that stays in your memory for years.... Continue reading
Back when I was competing on the national scene in the 90s, I had a conversation with another lifter that I’ve never forgotten. Know what I mean? It was one of those times when somebody says something to you that stays in your memory for years.... Continue reading
Ask Greg: Issue 170
Matt Asks: It’s midnight and I can’t fall asleep because of the endless loop of mental snatch reps in my head. And it all crystallizes into this damning question, and it is driving me mad... do the hips come forward to meet the bar o... Continue reading
Matt Asks: It’s midnight and I can’t fall asleep because of the endless loop of mental snatch reps in my head. And it all crystallizes into this damning question, and it is driving me mad... do the hips come forward to meet the bar o... Continue reading
Auto-Regulation: Subjective Vs. Objective
For strength and conditioning coaches, a key role in enhancing an athlete’s performance is placing them at the center of the design, development and implementation of a structured, progressive training program. A number of key variables within ... Continue reading
For strength and conditioning coaches, a key role in enhancing an athlete’s performance is placing them at the center of the design, development and implementation of a structured, progressive training program. A number of key variables within ... Continue reading
Team Politics: How It Affects Your Lifting, And Why You Need To Squash It
No lifter is an island. Though weightlifting is the quintessential you vs. you sport, a better fit for those of us who didn’t play well with others on the volleyball court, chances are that you train with a team comprised of other huma... Continue reading
No lifter is an island. Though weightlifting is the quintessential you vs. you sport, a better fit for those of us who didn’t play well with others on the volleyball court, chances are that you train with a team comprised of other huma... Continue reading
The Tricky Financial Side of Coaching Weightlifting
When Heath Ledger played The Joker in the Batman movie “The Dark Knight,” he said something that caught my ear and stayed with me: “If you’re good at something, never do it for free.” Would you believe me if I t... Continue reading
When Heath Ledger played The Joker in the Batman movie “The Dark Knight,” he said something that caught my ear and stayed with me: “If you’re good at something, never do it for free.” Would you believe me if I t... Continue reading
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