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The best weightlifting videos, articles and interviews from around the web.

Pawel Najdek Interview

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Head on over to Weightlifting Fix. Clarence did an interview with his coach Pawel Najdek. We trained a program that was very similar to Bulgarian training methods. (Szewczyk was a good friend of Abadzijev) training was very difficult and required a complete subordination of all life to weightlifting training. But this is the only way to […]

Andrey Molchanov 205kg Clean & Jerk

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Here is a nice lift by Andrey Molchanov (85kg). 205kg Clean & Jerk lifted in 2010 at the Italian & RSA Senior Championships, Grigoriy Novak Memorial. He went 165kg/ 205kg there. Anybody know about the whereabouts of this guy? I couldn’t any info about him. It doesn’t help that there is a prominent Russian mafia […]

Chad Vaughn Split Jerk Article

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Chad Vaughn wrote an article on the Split Jerk. From stance, grip width, jerk dip, shoulder-hip alignment to jerk foot position he covers pretty much everything. As for the dip, I cannot remember ever working with anyone whose dip I have not reduced in depth. Download: link to PDF (right click + ‘save as’) Preview: […]

Best Weightlifters of 2012 – Vote for Om Yun Chol

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My friends over at the IWF want to know who your favorite lifters of 2012 were. Too bad they only allow medalists from the London Olympics as candidates. I had some good ideas for this … Well, even with this limited choice I think we can all agree (!) that this year’s award has to […]

Let Sargis Martirosyan Compete!

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I recently came across the story of  Armenian born weightlifter Sargis Martirosyan (94kg). He lifts some impressive numbers (see videos below). So you might ask why haven’t we seen him in London or at the Europeans? The answer is politics. As of 2005 he is residing in Austria. First as an asylum seeker, now as […]