Design Your Olympic Weightlifting Program
Design Your Olympic Weightlifting Program

There’s two ways to mess this up: not including enough strength work and relying too much on strength work.

IOC: Weightlifting Confirmed for 2024 Olympics
IOC: Weightlifting Confirmed for 2024 Olympics
Weightlifting fans rejoice! The International Olympic Committee confirmed that weightlifting will be an event at the 2024 Olympics so get ready forward to cheer on your favorite lifters and countries pump — er, lift some iron in Paris, France — as long as the International Weightlifting Federation gets its doping problem cleaned up.
Home and the Home Gym — The Roots
Home and the Home Gym — The Roots

This is the dimension occupied by nursing babies with their mothers, lovers having intimate sex, and friends and family hugging. The relationship between lifter and bar is that intimate.

Iron, Intensity, and Innovation — I3 Strength and Performance
Iron, Intensity, and Innovation — I3 Strength and Performance

Brandon Holmes and Marlon Woods open I3 Strength in Performance in Augusta, Georgia for a client base committed to high-level strength and fitness.

Why Do You Lift — Meaning, Identity, Hope and Passion
Why Do You Lift — Meaning, Identity, Hope and Passion

For the next three or four articles, this is our topic: motivation. This first part will explore the construction of meaning, identity, and the origins of motivation.

WATCH: Darden Q&A From the Compound — Beginners, When to Compete, Injury Prevention
WATCH: Darden Q&A From the Compound — Beginners, When to Compete, In...

Do you know the number one secret to being a great strength athlete?

WATCH: Clint Darden Shows How to Teach and Use the Clean for Athletes
WATCH: Clint Darden Shows How to Teach and Use the Clean for Athletes

An old football programming staple, the clean is used (and misused) by hundreds of coaches every year. Clint Darden starts at the bottom and fixes everything a football player needs for better carryover and better performance.

Learn How to Coach and Perform Barbell Movements with Chris Duffin
Learn How to Coach and Perform Barbell Movements with Chris Duffin
Live course in North Carolina is less than 2 months away. Click for details.
Amit Sapir: From Soldier to IFBB Pro Bodybuilder
Amit Sapir: From Soldier to IFBB Pro Bodybuilder

How Amit Sapir grew from a Israeli Soldier to an IFBB Pro Bodybuilder.

Olympic Lifting for Athletes:  Using Static Holds to Improve Technique
Olympic Lifting for Athletes: Using Static Holds to Improve Technique

Teaching the Olympic lifts can be difficult. Using isometric holds can benefit both coaches and athletes.

The Abadjiev Method (Part 1)
The Abadjiev Method (Part 1)

The history behind the madness: Ivan Abadjiev

An Interview with Lidia Valentin
An Interview with Lidia Valentin

Meet competitive weightlifter and Olympian, Lidia Valentin.

Spotlight: New Addition - Olympic Weightlifting Coach Leo Totten
Spotlight: New Addition - Olympic Weightlifting Coach Leo Totten

I hope to be able to spread the word about Olympic lifting and how it can best be incorporated into the training scheme.

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