Competitions and training vary greatly. In training you are in your native gym (home field advantage), you can lift at your own pace, you are with training partners (who may be in different weight categories), you lift on “your” platform, with “your” barbell, and many other variables to list that are likely never to happen …
Month: October 2018
Importance of Submaximal Weights
Despite that this sport’s main objective is to find a one rep max snatch and clean & jerk in competition, we cannot train with maximal and near maximal loads all the time. Even on a day where we are lifting near maximal and maximal weights we should not rush our way up to those attempts. …
Training Principles
All weightlifters snatch, clean, jerk, squat, pull, and press to some degree or another. The coach and the training environment are the only proprietary ingredients to a training system. This is why I publish my team’s program online. The magic happens at practice because I can dictate individual exercise changes and weight selection based off what …
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