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Olympic Lifting
Ep 825 – Breaking The Limits of Strength w/ Dave Spitz
What does it take to build athletes capable of lifting the impossible? Dave Spitz of Cal Strength breaks down his approach to training a new world-record hopeful, the blueprint for developing freak strength, and the common mistakes lifters make when chasing heavy weights.
Ep 805 – Kyle Ruth on How to Build Real Athletes
Everyone thinks they’re training hard, but most are just spinning their wheels. John sits down with coach and athlete, Kyle Ruth, to dissect what’s gone wrong with modern training. From the decline of real strength work to why Olympic lifting has become a lost art, they’re pulling no punches.
EP 470 – TOUGH Talk with Greg Everett
Shaping Toughness This week Catalyst Athletics Greg Everett [@CatalystAthletics] joins us to discuss his new book, TOUGH. While…
Weightlifting Competition Coaching for the Novice Coach
You’re an S&C coach – you primarily serve as support staff to the sport coach, where your…
7 Coaching Tools to Master the Power Clean: Part III
The sport of Weightlifting in the United States is steadily growing has more and more athletes that are exposed to…
Teaching the Power Clean on Bedrock
Let’s kickoff a series of articles to empower coaches incorporating the Power Clean for their non-weightlifter athletes….
PA Radio – Episode 229: Sean Waxman
The Olympic lifting Athlete So you’ve been training the olympic lifts for a while but your progress…
PA Radio – Episode 113: Sean Rigsby
Witness the making of an olympic athlete. This week’s episode features Sean Rigsby. Sean is a…