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INITIAL TRAINING FOR WOMEN

    The fact that girls are coming to my seminars more and more often makes me happy. They all want to learn how to lift the barbell and how to better understand weightlifting. It’s interesting how hard it is to clearly categorize these girls - they are all different...

Tags: programming, tips, training, Training Tips - Updated on September 04, 2018

ABOUT TECHNIQUE

    A technique is an ideal system of movements, of varying complexity, that while respecting the laws of economy and rationality, result in the athlete channelling all his physical qualities onto a bar.     It is a considerably difficult and complex task to develop a high level technique as...

Tags: Technique, tips, training, Training Tips, weightlifting - Updated on March 30, 2018

MY SHOULDERS’ STORY

    The first time I came across the problem of shoulder joints was after the Olympic Games in Beijing. It wasn’t that I had some kind of injury or sprain, just that I wasn’t paying enough attention to my body mechanics, to strengthening the small muscles, ligaments and the...

Tags: accessories, tips, Training Tips - Updated on March 03, 2018

SNATCH GRIP WIDTH

This article also available as audio. Check this out! Subscribe and listen it anywhere:           I start every single seminar by talking about the importance of the correct setting of hands in snatch grip, and how that grip affects the entire technique for these exercises. There are...

Tags: programming, snatch, tips, training, Training Tips - Updated on January 02, 2018

What is the difference between a hookgrip and a regular grip?

    Let’s try to answer this question.     There are numerous reasons why holding the barbell with a hookgrip is obvious. Almost every athlete who tries to snatch a barbell of more than 100 kg (wide grip) has faced the problem of holding it in a regular grip,...

Tags: programming, tips, training, Training Tips - Updated on October 28, 2017