WL News | Pan Am Trials & Junior USA Nationals

By my estimations this week has been the best week of weightlifting since the 2017 World Championships. World record attempts, training world records, 210kg snatches... This week has had it all. weigh...

22 Aug 201834min

Once the emotional response to names like Mark Rippetoe and Louie Simmons have passed then we can have a real conversation about the low bar and the high bar. No single exercise is inherently a bad ex...

20 Aug 20181h 6min

This week we have Ivan Chakarov, the inventor of the 'No No No Squat', and Blagoy Blagoev, the greatest snatcher of all time! These 90kg Bulgarians ruled the middle weight classes for almost the entir...

17 Aug 201825min

Half way through this week's episode I just had to take a break to talk about the recent consensus amongst the weightlifting community that the Rostami - Moradi battle is a forgone conclusion by way o...

15 Aug 201829min

I sat down with two academics (a writer and an artist) who write and create professionally alongside lecturing. What started off as a basic description of weightlifting developed into a deeper search ...

13 Aug 201850min

Leonid Taranenko is known as the strongest weightlifter of all time and for many, the strongest man of all time. Why? For putting the most above head. But the story behind how he clean and jerked more...

10 Aug 201826min

The worlds best lifters delivered again this week from competition, training halls, and garage gyms. From world record snatches to some of the heaviest muscle snatches of all time.

8 Aug 201821min

As we sat in McDonalds the questions from our Instagram Q&A flew in. So, Glenn and I decided to answer them all on the podcast. This led to great discussions and gave us a feel for what you all want t...

6 Aug 20181h 13min