Best of Olympic Weightlifting
With a little over a week to go until the 2014 Worlds, let's have a prediction poll. Your Podium Predictions in the Comments. Here are mine: +105kg: Aleksey Lovchev, Behdad Salimi, Ruslan Albegov 105kg: Ilya Ilyin, David … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in the US ... Colin Burns is ready for worlds and Snatches 170kg at 96kg. A video posted by Colin Burns (@burnscolin) on Oct 10, 2014 at 7:06pm PDT … [Continue reading]
You don't see women bang out One Arm Chin Ups for reps that often... Alex Puccio is one of the strongest female climbers out there (doing v14 boulders) and she makes it look easy. A video posted by Alex Puccio (@alex_puccio89) on Oct 10, … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Ukraine ... Here is London 2012 Bronze medalist (in 58kg) Yuliya Kalina (now 63kg) Snatching 111kg at the Ukrainian National Championships. With this lift she set a new national record, which was previously held by 2004 Olympic … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in China ... The Chinese Weightlifting team ran a test event in their training center. See the women's session here. And Liao Hui (69kg) did pretty good. How Good? He got the 200kg Clean & Jerk and a 365kg Total, ergo also a … [Continue reading]
After the Training Day with the Russian Junior Weightlifting Team, here is the Men's edition. Update 30.10.2014: Another visit to the National team. This time at the training base in Ruza. … [Continue reading]
The US Olympic Training Center athletes Colin Burns, Donovan Ford, David Garcia and Anthony Pomponio sat down for a training roundtable. Topics: Training Squats during Shoulder Injuries (hip belt and safety bar squats) David Squatted 3x per … [Continue reading]
Blast from the Past ... Here is a highlight video from the 1984 IWF World Cup Gala in Sarajevo. It features a 17 year old Naim Suleymanoglu, Asen Zlatev, Blagoy Blagoev, Yurik Sarkisyan and more. What's different about this is, that athletes … [Continue reading]
Meanwhile in Estonia ... Mart Seim bests his old Squat PR by 3kg and gets 353kg. With only 3 weeks to go until the +105kg session at worlds I asked him how long before a competition he squats heavy. His answer: I haven't squatted over 320 in … [Continue reading]