Best of Olympic Weightlifting
On my YouTube channel I regularly get asked about how to mount gymnastics rings to the ceiling. So here is how I installed mine. This is a 12mm diameter o-ring bolt. It reaches ~100mm into the reinforced concrete ceiling. I drilled a 14mm hole … [Continue reading]
Over at Starting Strength, Mark Rippetoe put up an excellent video explaining the details of the Romanian deadlift. I really learned a lot from this. Here are my notes from the video. Why is the Romanian deadlift an important … [Continue reading]
Post workout power naps are awesome. I do them after extra hard workouts after I had my post workout shake/meal. You can optimize them significantly by inhibiting light from hitting your visual and audio sensors. Therefore I use a sleeping mask … [Continue reading]
You know how you sometimes stop doing exercises and you slowly begin to forget about them? Especially in gymnastics / bodyweight training, where there are literally hundreds thousands of exciting exercises available, this happened to me more than … [Continue reading]
After reading the WSJ article about the Bulgarian method yesterday, I remembered that I had read something about it in the "Science and Practice of Strength Training" by Vladimir Zatsiorsky. Here is the excerpt: Bulgarian athletes have several … [Continue reading]
'You lift more, train more, you get higher results.' - Ivan Abadjiev The Bulgarian Method of Olympic Weightlifting training is once again in mainstream media. Today the Wall Street Journal runs an article called about it. "Heavy Lifting, No Rest, … [Continue reading]
Complete 10 min ab workout with the Pacman. … [Continue reading]
Don't know how useful this is. But it's fun to play around with and may get some ideas to mix up your diet. Enter how many calories you want to consume and how often you want to eat per day and Swole.Me will generate a meal plan for you. You … [Continue reading]
Update: Check out this follow up post with the tips and hints I got on how to improve my the form. This is me doing a straddle press to handstand. Actually, one of the first times I ever did one. For most people this is not a hard skill to … [Continue reading]