Richard Flemming is the head weightlifting coach for the historically competitive Spoon Barbell Club. He hold multiple weightlifting titles and was a member of the 1977 National Championship team. Coach Flemming has coached many athletes to … [Read more...]

"The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room"~ Denzel Washington in American GangsterAfter downloading a lot of what has been on my brain in yesterday's post. Today are three simple awesome things that happened while at our camp at … [Read more...]

Gayle Hatch is a USA Weightlifting Senior U.S. International Coach. He served as Head Coach of the men’s 2004 USA Olympic Weightlifting Team in Athens, Greece. Furthermore has coached multiple international lifters including Matt Bruce, … [Read more...]

I finished up another one of Medvedyev’s training manuals last week and was reviewing my notes and thoughts on the manual this week.  The training manual I read is titled “A System of Multi-Year Training in Weightlifting.”  Much of … [Read more...]

Coach Newton began his career as a coach and athlete at Central Florida University. He was USA Weightlifting’s first national coach (1981-84) and served as that group’s executive director (1982-88). Coach Newton is one of the original … [Read more...]

Earlier in the week I posted a blog about training partners that double as good friends outside of the gym. In that blog I referenced Ecclesiastes 4 where Solomon tells us that three strands united together are not easily broken. On that same idea … [Read more...]

The next five days I'm going to do a series on beginning weightlifters, things beginning coaches should be thinking about when the coach and basic principles to follow when teaching beginning lifters the sport. I know there are a lot of you that have … [Read more...]

Yesterday I had three or four different clients who were struggling with very specific technical issues. Each of those clients could not for the life of them manage to fix those technical issues at heavyweights regardless of the amount of effort they … [Read more...]

Glenn Pendlay and MDUSA puts out an awesome podcast every week that often includes some of the best coaching and lifting information out there.  This week he published a podcast where he, Don McCauley, and Dan Bell all got on the mic and talked about … [Read more...]

On the heels of my wife's 28th birthday I'm inclined to write a post about the benefit of training partners for outside of the gym. I have written extensively in the past on why training partners are so important for the growth of an athlete. … [Read more...]

"15 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.” 16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, “It is not in me; God will give … [Read more...]

One of the more relatively new concepts to me is the idea of a dip in bar velocity DURING the pull from the floor to the hips. I first saw and learned about this idea during the USAW Level 2 seminar.  The article below is a research paper from John … [Read more...]

Most of you by now have become VERY aware for the debate between Bob Takano and the Weightlifting world VS Diane Fu/K-Starr.  Coach Takano posted a 6 part series on his blog detailing his back and forth conversation with Diane on where the knees … [Read more...]

Regionals complete.  1 thing is for sure the Central East Men's competitors put on a show!  Earlier in the day I stated that watching the men's competition in the Central East versus the rest of the world is like watching SEC football in comparison … [Read more...]

Recently there have been 5 or 6 solid articles published addressing a variety of differing topics. This weekend I plan to post three of these articles. Let it be stated that I am not stating I agree or disagree with any of the articles posted this … [Read more...]