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Karlos Nasar Sets Unofficial World Records Ahead of 2024 Olympics…Again
With roughly six weeks until the 2024 Olympics, Bulgarian weightlifter Karlos Nasar is looking approximately unstoppable. When the qualification period commenced in 2022, Nasar was one of many names in the conversation for gold in Paris — nowadays he’s the favorite. On Friday, Jun. 28, 2024, news spread across social media that Nasar had lifted…
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How to Do the Muscle Snatch for Better Weightlifting Performance
If you’re on the hunt for a new way to improve your weightlifting game, the muscle snatch is an absolute game-changer. The muscle snatch can help you build explosive leg power, teach you how to be a powerful and aggressive vertical puller, and reinforce solid snatching mechanics to boot. The tremendous amounts of strength and…
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The Snatch Pull Can Elevate Your Weightlifting Game — If You Do It Right
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Clean Up Your Weightlifting Game With the Muscle Clean
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Drill the Drop Snatch to Level Up Your Weightlifting Performance
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Dynamic Warm-Up for Weightlifting
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The Jump Squat: How, When, and Why Weightlifters Should Include Them In Training
Weightlifting Basics
What Is Weightlifting?
Weightlifting is a weight-classed strength sport and Olympic Games event. In weightlifting competitions, athletes perform two barbell-only exercises; the snatch and the clean & jerk.
Both events entail moving a loaded barbell from the floor to being held overhead at arm’s length. Athletes who compete in weightlifting are ranked on the sum of their heaviest successful snatch and clean & jerk, which is called a Total. Out of all major strength sports, weightlifting is widely considered to be the most intricate to learn, due to the complex techniques of its two movements.
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Report: 18 Weightlifters Caught Violating Anti-Doping Policy in 2023
The 2024 Olympics begin in about two months. Paris will host 120 weightlifters — the fewest in decades — as a downstream consequence of the International Weightlifting Federation’s (IWF) years-long negligence of policing corruption and performance-enhancing drug abuse. However, things seem to be looking up for the IWF: On May 30, 2024, the organization published…
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2024 IWF Youth World Weightlifting Championships Results
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2024 Olympics: Meet the 5 Weightlifters Representing Team USA
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Team China’s Weightlifting Roster for 2024 Olympics Revealed
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Karlos Nasar Hit a 226KG Clean & Jerk. Is It an Unofficial World Record?