weightlifting

Recently joining a beginners class in Olympic Weightlifting, I was eager to improve my posture and form after years of feeling like my lifts were lethargic and anything but textbook. At 6’ 4”, I often struggle with maintaining proper form and achieving efficient weightlifting movements. I’m not...

Dr. John Jaquish (pronounced: Jake-Wish), a well-established figure in the biomedical engineering field and popularly hailed as the “Tony Stark of the fitness industry,” has altered the concept of traditional weightlifting and aims to reinvent the way individuals build strength and muscle...

Weightlifting belts have been a long-standing debate across all types of athletes in the gym. One side of the argument claims that belts are an essential piece of equipment to perform heavy lifts without injury; the other side claim that these weightlifting belts are simply a band-aid for any...

If a powerlifter or bodybuilder from the 1970's or 1980's walked into the average gym today they'd be horrified. Watching the people exercising would make them think they were in a foreign country, one where their strength athletes were either sadly lacking in muscle education or, quite simply...

Comparative Study Br J Clin Pharmacol . 2008 Feb;65(2):253-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.2007.03001.x. Epub 2007 Aug 31. Muscular exercise can cause highly pathological liver function tests in healthy men Jonas Pettersson 1 , Ulf Hindorf, Paula Persson, Thomas Bengtsson, Ulf Malmqvist, Viktoria...

Born in Doncaster, England, young Fraer Morrow has competed as a weightlifter all around the world. In 2019, at just 21 years of age, she traveled to Romania and brought home a gold medal and two silvers at the European U23 Championships. Before this, Morrow had picked up valuable lifting...

Zeena Hernandez and Lisa Yang wanted a “strong” start to their marriage, so instead of lighting a candle or some other traditional wedding practice, the two decided to deadlift more than 250 pounds on the altar three times in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. The two are Olympic-style weightlifters...

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