All Entries in the "Weightlifting" Category
OWLI- 17th and 18th July
Sat and Sunday 17th and 18th July OWLI Course at the OLF Training Centre. 10* Snatches on the minute 5* Clean and Jerks on 2 minutes The OWLI course went really well over the weekend of the 17th and 18th. Mark and myself shared the demo’s on the Saturday. On the Sunday I decided to [...]
Olympic Weightlifting for Everyone
Why Everyone needs the Olympic Lifts. Personal Trainers need to learn the Olympic Lifts so they are able to safely and competently teach these to their clients. We know that the Olympic Lifts are important for athletes and sports people alike because of the physical skills and attributes that they develop. The Olympic Lifts develop [...]
Real Strongman
Here is a clip that a friend sent to me: This is a true legend of the strength game- Johann Martin. He weightlifts, kettlebell lifts, squats and uses his bodyweight brilliantly. I need to keep training!!
Weightlifting, safety and the young
Here at the Trojans Lifting Club we’re quite fond of Weightlifting as a form of training and as a sport. Weightlifting by deifnittion is the sport lifts: the Snatch and the; Clean and Jerk. For way too long, too many misconceptions have surrounded these fantastic lifts. Both the Trojans Lifting Club and the educational providers [...]
A night at the Woking Centre of Excellence.
Well tonight I finally did it. I’ve been trying to get there for a while but kept coming up with excuses of one type or another. Tonight I went down to the Woking Centre of Excellence in… Woking! I’ve mentioned this Weightlifting gym with head coach Brian Hamill in the past. A good mate of [...]
The Snatch
The Barbell Snatch or Olympic Snatch is an exercise set apart. In less than a second a weight is pulled from the floor and lifted and then caught in an overhead position. By definition a weight is lifted from the ground and is fixated above the head in one uninterrupted movement. There is something primal [...]
In the Presence of a British Champion
Last Sunday I was fortunate enough to be in the presence of a National Weightlifting Champion. I was running a 2 Day Course and my colleague asked me what I thought of Chris Chea coming down and doing a couple of demonstrations, I told him that I though it would be tops! I had met [...]
Ivan Abadjiev & the Bulgarian Weightlifting System
Ivan Abadjiev & the Bulgarian Weightlifting System By David Woodhouse History Ivan Abadjiev was born in 1932 and was himself a world class weightlifter having placed 2nd in the World Championships in 1953. After retiring from the sport he took an administrative position in Bulgaria but was vocal in his criticism of the team’s training [...]
“King Kong” gets his ass handed to him by David Morgan!
It’s a funny one, we all have the tendency to think that the grass is always greener. It applies to a lot of things; living abroad, working elsewhere, our homes, our partners. The truth is that most of the time we don’t realise what we have right under our noses. It’s the same in the [...]
What will the Olympic Lifts do for me?
As mentioned previously on this site the Olympic lifts are fantastic for developing speed, power, strength and coordination. Whether you’re a sportsperson or just somebody wanting to improve performance you really should do yourself a favour and train with the Olympic Lifts. Here is Chris Koing from the Woking Centre of Excellence showing what training [...]
