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 […]
How to Watch the 2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships
The 2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships (AWC) are scheduled for May 5-13, 2023, in Jinju, South Korea. The contest will feature twenty weight categories — 10 male and 10 female — in the central city of Western Gyeongsangnam-do. The competition will take place in the Jinju Arena and will be streamed by the Asian Weightlifting Championships […]
How to Do the Clean for Explosive Power, Muscle Growth, and Much More
The first time you ever saw someone doing a clean probably blew your mind. Most free-weight exercises are slow and controlled; take a bar (or pair of dumbbells) from here to there with a nice, consistent tempo. The clean, though? Over in the blink of an eye. And that’s without even mentioning how bizarre the […]
Weightlifter Karlos Nasar (89KG) Sets Multiple New World Records at 2023 European Weightlifting Championships
“There’s a reason they call them the ‘Unbelievable Bulgarians‘,” exclaimed the commentators shortly after 18-year-old weightlifter Karlos Nasar set four new World Records with a single lift at the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships in Yerevan, Armenia. At the conclusion of the 89-kilogram division, Nasar shocked the crowd when he successfully clean & jerked 221 kilograms, […]
2023 European Weightlifting Championships Full Results
In 2022, the European Weightlifting Championships (EWC) was not a qualifying event for weightlifters aiming at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Things are different in 2023; this year’s EWC, which is taking place in Yerevan, Armenia from Apr. 15 to Apr. 23, will set the stage for the upcoming Games and is, unsurprisingly, chock-full of exciting weightlifting […]
How to Watch the 2023 IWF European Weightlifting Championships
A summer full of spectacular weightlifting kicks off in Yerevan, Armenia, with the commencement of the 2023 International Weightlifting Federation‘s (IWF) European Weightlifting Championships (EWC). This year’s EWC, which begins on Apr. 15 and runs through Apr. 23, will showcase many of the best weightlifters in the European circuit and illustrate who has the best […]
What Are the Differences Between Powerlifting vs. Weightlifting?
Strength is strength. Fortunately, there’s a lot more to it than that. Human beings have competed in tests of strength since, essentially, the dawn of time. From crude rock-lifting competitions to the Olympic Games, strength has been systematized, economized, and categorized. Two of the most prominent disciplines in the world of strength are powerlifting and […]