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When I first got involved with the sport of Olympic Style Weightlifting, I was easily enamored by the Russians and their dominance of the bigger weight classes during the 90’s.

With that being said, I too decided to buy a ‘Russian’ belt just like the ones I saw on all those videos of them dominating with big ole clean & jerks as I watched on my 36” state of the art TV that weighed 400lbs.   The nice shiny buckle and red ...

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(Columbus, Ohio) – The Arnold Sports Festival, the largest multi-sport event in the nation, will host the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Weightlifting and the 2012 National Weightlifting Championships in Columbus, Ohio from March 2-4.

The U.S. Olympic Team Trials and the National Championships will highlight the Arnold Weightlifting Championships, an event that debuted in ...

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We had a small but mighty group this weekend to work the cues and lifts at Marisa Field House in Waynesburg, PA.

Tanner Kolb, who prepares his athletes for explosion, ably assisted me throughout the entire weekend.  (Tanner is not a strength and conditioning coach, but prefers different terminology when describing his position at Waynesburg University:)

The pictures are of Jason and John performing the push press.

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Jason Roberson, Strength Coach at Ball State University and the group have a great set-up and only look to improve their explosion through the Olympic Lifts.(Picture is of Jordan working his clean at the Level 1 Sports Performance Course)
Drew and I worked with the participants at the Level 1 USAW Sports Performance Course in Muncie, IN this past weekend.

This year the state meet is being held by Cincinnati Weightlifting, headed up by Chris Cleary and Co.

2011 Ohio Weightlifting Championships

Worked with Mike Szela from Chicago today. A random stop in our club as his track girlfriend was competing locally. Strong 69kg lifter that will
most likely be at Nationals this year.   A few hours of training and tweaking his technique will enable him to compete with the big boyz imo.

The last participant at the OSU Level 1 Sports Performance Course finished up last week, but don’t despair, we have a full cadre of courses this summer, including upcoming courses at: Waynesburg University, Ball State University, Eastern Michigan University and CocaCrossFit in North Ridgeville.

Only from Columbus Weightlifting!

Worked with Blair Wagner, Head Sports Performance Coach at Eastern Michigan University and his group, including, Shin, Pat and Greg today.
We made some great progress and I think they will pass that to their athletes in short order.
Having City Barbecue afterwards, didn’t hurt either!!

Folks,

The team headed up by the Kyles and group held a nice 3 session meet that ran smooth as silk yesterday.  Our group made some real good progress as we head towards Nationals upcoming in July. 

First up were the girls who did themselves pretty proud:  Jenna lifted at her first meet in her entire life and went 5 for 6 with some good attempts.  Hollywood Holley set a PR snatch with 100 and some nice attempts at 105 that were ...