The strongest sport at the Olympics is set to take stage on Wednesday, Aug. 7, in Paris where five Americans eye the podium. Olympic weightlifting, simply known to athletes as weightlifting, is not to ...

Most guys in the gym view lifting weights as a means to a leaner, more muscular end. They don’t typically think about their training as a sport. But if you’ve ever entertained the idea of pitting your ...

Weightlifting has been a staple of competition since humans developed the cognitive ability to look at each other's glutes, as the echoes of a softly grunted "pathetic" bounced against cave walls, ...

Strength and hypertrophy training may be my main style of training, but as T3’s Active Writer (the title kind of gives it away), I love keeping active, taking on new challenges, and Olympic ...

WEIGHTS. ARE YOU CLEANING OR SNATCHING? HERE AT NORCAL STRENGTH SYSTEMS, OWNER RUSSELL JORDAN HELPS ATHLETES. PERFECT. ALL RIGHT. SO HE’S GOING TO GO SHOULDERS TO OVERHEAD THERE. LIFT PRESS IN THE ...

Olympic lifting has long been respected in the world of competitive sports, but today it’s also gaining traction among everyday fitness enthusiasts. Movements like the snatch and the clean and jerk ...

Olivia Reeves was such a breakthrough in U.S. weightlifting that an Olympic silver medalist moved out of her weight class. Mary Theisen-Lappen began this Olympic cycle coaching discus and shot put ...

The Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, delivered the most successful Games for American weightlifters in over two decades. The United States won multiple weightlifting medals ...