At 15 years old, Wil Fleming was a mediocre athlete who regularly got crushed on the field. Then he got serious about the barbell. Two years later, he was an All-State athlete… and the rest is history. He fell in love with the Olympic lifts and has used them to make his athletes better on […]
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Raise your hand if you are a weightlifter, a coach, or a parent. This article is definitely for you. Do you find it a bit overwhelming to navigate through all the great information on the USA Weightlifting website? The website is most certainly user friendly – but if you are somewhat new to the sport,
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Sometimes coaches, athletes, and fans will debate whether strength or technique is the most important part of improving as an Olympic weightlifter. Most great coaches would agree both are important. Eventually, technique and strength will match. What does this mean? The Golden Ratio? Eventually, you will develop a ratio between your squats and your competition
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This article is a hard one to write. It’s difficult because I am probably going to make some people I care about deeply upset with me. However, I have my athletes assuming I feel a certain way about the lifts, and the truth is I don’t feel that way at all. So I’m going to
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There seem to be a lot of debates going on all over social media. I’ve had some, and now Sean Waxman has his own also. So we talk to him today a little bit about that – but mainly we talk about his life growing up in New York. This guy has some seriously great
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We all love to win. No one loves to win more than me! If you know me, you probably would agree. Some would say that I have an unhealthy desire to win, and that might be true. However, I have learned to have a healthy relationship with failure. Does that mean I enjoy losing? Not
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