Alternative methods to Olympic lifting to produce maximum power. It is well known within strength and conditioning that Olympic lifting is an effective way to improve muscular power but for most athletes starting out, performing a snatch or clean and jerk can be completely useless. Olympic...
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How to INSTANTLY Get Better at Crossfit, Get Stronger and Avoid Injury. In the last decade, the world of strength and conditioning has grown and the public’s approach to performance based training has become much more mainstream than anyone would have anticipated. Even commercial gyms are...
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Paused Squats For A Better Weightlifting Total Olympic weightlifting is a truly explosive sport where, the athlete throws a heavy barbell into the air and attempts to catch it overhead. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it! A large portion of the training for weightlifting involves moving as fast...
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Promising young weightlifter Lori Bavetta, athlete of BWL's Golden Chance Programme, and her training partner Louis Hampton trained at Performance Ground yesterday. Watch Lori Bavetta hitting a 130 kg competition PB total at the British Championships https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WenguRv2bso Read Lori Bavetta's interview to BWL....
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Find Your Contact Point In Weightlifting Weightlifting is a sport that requires hours and hours of practice to master but it’s not enough to only invest time into the movements to master the skills. Quality and consistency are as important, if not more, as the amount...
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GB Weightlifters Jack Oliver And Sarah Davies At Performance Ground Jack Oliver and Sarah Davies had their last training session in the UK before heading to Australia for the Commonwealth Championships. Jack Oliver is a 2017 British Champion and London 2012 Olympian. Sarah Davies is also a...
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Last Saturday, we had a great workshop with a lovely group of people and the Team GB Olympian in weightlifting, Sonny Webster, sharing his knowledge and expertise with us! Sonny Webster covered: -2 separate coached weightlifting sessions on snatch and clean and jerk -Nutrition for weightlifting -Programming for weightlifting -A full max...
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As some of you might have heard funding for the GB weightlifters has been cut. We are doing our best to support Zoe Pablo Smith, 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medallist and 2012 Olympian, by letting her train at our facility for free while she is...
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Are you an athlete, coach or exercise professional with little to moderate experience of Olympic lifting? This workshop involves an introduction into Olympic weightlifting, specifically the Snatch and Clean & Jerk movements and their derivatives. Within this one day workshop you will learn in stages the progressions...
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