Stay Tight! How to Breathe, Brace and Save Your Spine
Do you remember the first time someone cue’ed you to stay tight? It’s a common expression in weightlifting and CrossFit but unfortunately, most novice (and…
Category Archives: Weightlifting
Stop the Sit-Ups: How to Rethink Midline Training and Build an Enviable Core
When it comes to core training, way too much emphasis is placed on working the abdominals and and not nearly enough on the back, pelvic…
Itty Bitty Behemoth: The Smallest, Strongest Lifter You’ve Never Heard Of
At 4 feet 11 inches, Alyssa Ritchey’s intimidation factor is low. She walks out onto the platform and grips the loaded barbell, head down as…
5 Reasons You’re Not Getting Stronger
It happens. The beginner gains slow to a crawl (what? No more 20 pound strict press PRs?!) and you hit a wall. Maybe you aren’t…
The Need for Speed (Training)
Watch any top lifter and one of the first things that jumps out is their speed. It’s the reason they’re able to lift heavy weights…
Up and Cummings
Weightlifter CJ Cummings has been poked and prodded, hooked up to electrodes and high speed cameras monitoring every kind of human performance indicator one can…
Do You Need a Coach?
Do you need a coach? With more and more people joining the world of weightlifting, CrossFit, powerlifting and Strongman, it’s a natural question. How important…
Lifting 101: Dave Miller on Fixing the Snatch and Clean
The snatch and clean can be uniquely frustrating lifts. The combination of speed, patience, explosiveness, technique, mental toughness, strength and agility is one that leaves…
4 Benefits to Adding Bodybuilding into Your Training
In a world of increasingly popular functional fitness, bodybuilding has gotten a bad rep. In CrossFit, people think they know how to train harder…
Patience, Passion Fuels Daniel Camargo
It wasn’t that long ago that USA Weightlifting senior international coach Danny Camargo was putting fliers on cars in mall parking lots, doing free demonstrations…
