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Handstand Press Complex

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Time for some Handstand inspiration. Yuval Ayalon performs a Handstand Complex. Tuck to Straddle (this is where I stopped) to Pike Press. Shoulders open. Perfect alignment. Progressions Since most of us won’t be able to do this here are some progressions. Back against a wall. In the beginning tuck up and pike / straddle down. Later […]

Graham Hicks 200kg Lunges

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Meanwhile in England … I think this is the first time I post a video about Lunges. But when Graham Hicks does a set with 200kg it’s worth it. (He also did a 360kg SLDL that session). By the way, Graham agreed to answer some questions about his specialty – Overhead Pressing Strength. So if you […]

Weightlifting Scoop Podcast #41 – First Meets & Competition Coaching

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On Weightlifting Scoop #41 Glenn Pendlay, Don McCauley and Travis Cooper sat down to talk about First Meets & Competition Coaching. Download: link to mp3 (66mb, right click + ‘save as’) First Meet: don’t open with something you can’t double (around 90%) prioritize making lifts, not cutting weight they also talk about timing your warm up […]

Dmitry Klokov Interviews Dmitry Lapikov

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Continuing in his “On Par” Interview series … Dmitry Klokov interviews Dmitry Lapikov. Thanks to Evgeny Filatov for translating all of part 1 for us. Also thanks to Kirill Kazakov for adding in details. Update 08.08.2013: Part 2 is translated! Thanks to Kirill. Translation [00:00] KLOKOV: Greetings to our viewers. Today we will be talking “On Equal Terms” […]

Dmitry Klokov Interviews Khadzhimurat Akkaev

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Dmitry Klokov interviewed Khadzhimurat Akkaev. Check out Dmitry’s other interviews here. Update 04.08.2013: Translation completed! 16100 words! Update 11.09.2014: Read Akkaev’s 2014 Interview on ATG. Thanks to Kirill Kazakov and Vadim Pakhutkin for translating this for all of us.   Part 1 Translation of Part 1 Everything in square brackets are explanations of idioms or background info. KLOKOV: […]

Dmitry Klokov’s Home Gym

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(Post was oiginally published Jan 17, 2012) Update 2.8.2013: Dmitry Uploaded a tour of his house. Translation from Vadim: This is his father’s house, somewhere in Moscow suburbia. His father, Vyatcheslav Klokov, is a 1983 world champion (-110kg, 192.5/247.5), and ex-president of the Russian Weightlifting Federation. Klokov announced that in a couple of days from […]