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Reverse Muscle Ups

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Christopher Sommer posted a video of one of his athletes, Dillon Zirke, doing a Reverse Muscle Up. The equivalent of something basic like a pull up for the pros (See Gregor Saksida’s Reverse Muscle Ups to L Sit Iron Cross). One of the coolest ring exercises if you ask me. Prerequisites: straddle planche or harder […]

Ruslan Albegov 210kg Snatch + 250kg Clean & Jerk

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Ruslan Albegov won the +105kg at the 2012 Russian Weightlifting Championships. 210kg in the Snatch and 250kg in the Clean & Jerk (missed 255kg on his 3rd). Chingiz Mogushkov got second 438kg (201kg Snatch, 237kg C&J, x251kg, x251kg), Evgeny Chigishev got third 437kg (202kg Snatch, 235kg C&J, x242kg). So it is pretty likely that Albegov will […]

Lying IT Band Stretch

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Try this one. 4 Point IT Band Stretch bring knee forward, heel to butt lift knee straight to ceiling, then bring it straight back knee straight down to the floor use other leg for leverage to press down on your knee Comes in handy after yesterday’s 531 squat session. Did front squats for the 5×10 […]

Josh Gilbert in Powerlifting Meet

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Josh Gilbert of Average Broz’s Gymnasium competed in a USPA meet @ 67.5kg. The meet was held in our gym so we used it as a training day. We did not peak for this meet. He lifted daily prior to the meet, including AM/PM sessions the day before: Max FS & BS, Snatch and 7+ […]

Hysen Pulaku Typical Training Sessions

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The Podium Weightlifting guys uploaded a typical training session of Hysen Pulaku. Hysen works up to a 162kg Snatch and  200kg C&J. These clips will give you an idea of how many maximum attempts Hysen makes in any given practice. These two sessionsstarted at 5:30PM and ended after midnight. I didn’t include warm up lifts […]