Recent Posts

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• The rest interval between sets

  The time interval between sets in Weightlifting training and what happens during that interval is a source of great interest to me personally and perhaps to others as well. Initially, my…

  November 15, 2015

• The Inner Journey

  These days Weightlifting is fortunate to be well promoted via the Internet. There is an endless stream of videos and photos of people, of all levels, enjoying a moment of…

  November 8, 2015

• The Weightlifting Bandwagon

  It seems to me, as a practitioner of 40 years, that there has never been a time in the history of Olympic Weightlifting when the sport was as popular as it…

  October 25, 2015

• Training Principles

  It is no easy thing to make progress towards higher levels of ability as an athlete in the sport of Weightlifting. The level of commitment to training is uncomfortably high and…

  March 24, 2015

• A comparison of different training scenarios on rate of improvement

  [MM_Access_Decision access=’false’] The purpose of this article is to illustrate how differences in the athlete’s commitment to training will effect their ultimate performance capability in the years ahead. In this…

  April 18, 2014

• Path to High Performance: Part 3

  The first article, Path to High Performance: Part 1, provided a discussion about Technical Mastery and the paramount need for good quality coaching to avoid developing persistent errors of technique. This second article, Path to High…

  April 13, 2014

• Do you train hard?

  It was my original attention to write a page on the principles and practise of how to undertake serious training for the sport of Olympic Weightlifting. I mean the sort…

  February 13, 2014

• Developing leg strength for Weightlifting

  Following a predetermined “squat program” for a number of weeks has always been a popular methodology for developing leg strength and over the decades there have been numerous examples promoted as…

  December 28, 2013

• Developing a new culture for weightlifting

  There are presently 188 nation members of the International Weightlifting Federation spread across the entire globe from the tiny populations of Pacific Islands to the might of China, reputed to…

  September 1, 2013

• Exercises for Improving the Snatch

  This article examines how to build a training program for improving the Snatch beyond the initial technique learning stage. Making continued progress requires an understanding that it is fundamentally necessary that an athlete…

  August 25, 2013

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