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How Bad Do You Want It?
Inspirational video featuring Giavanni Ruffin (running back for East Carolina). Speech by Eric Thomas (AKA The Hip Hop Preacher). You can download the mp3 version of this speech here. Transcription: There was a young man, you know, who wanted to make a … Continue reading
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Explosive Lifting for Sports by Harvey Newton
Gain some tremendous explosiveness, strength and speed by including the clean and jerk, the snatch and their variations to your training program. In the following videos one of the most knowledgeable weightlifting experts, Harvey Newton, will show you step by step how … Continue reading
Olympic Style Weightlifting by Jim Schmitz
The best way to learn how to snatch and clean and jerk is to get a good coach–and they don’t come any better than Jim Schmitz: three-time coach of the USA Olympic weightlifting team, founder and owner of The Sports … Continue reading
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Clean and jerk
The clean and jerk is one of the two Olympic weightlifting events (the other being the snatch). The clean portion of the lift refers to the lifter explosively pulling the weight from the floor to a racked position across deltoids … Continue reading
The snatch
The snatch is one of the two olympic weightlifting events (the other being the clean and jerk). The essence of the event is to lift a barbell from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement. The … Continue reading
Polish Olympic Weightlifting Methods & Techniques
An insight view on the training methods used by Polish Olympic weightlifters from the 1970′s. This video series is definitely worth a look. Part 1:
Brutal Strength 