If you’ve ever done any amount of heavy lifting, you know that it’s not generally a good idea to pop into the gym, slip under the barbell, and start off with a 90% TM (training max) set – without warmup, that is. Not only will it feel incredibly shitty, but you’ll generally also feel much […]
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For all intermediate lifters, there comes the dreaded period when your lifts begin to slow, your progress hits a halt, and your weights reach a plateau. Ostensibly, this has to do with sticking points. You feel as though the climb is getting steeper, and you’re starting to dread your AMRAP sets and 95% training max
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If you’re an intermediate lifter and you’re starting to get hip problems while lifting, then I feel your pain. Or at least something similar to it. In accordance with an incredibly tight right hip, I also have frequent anterior hip pain after squatting, coupled with a general lower back muscle imbalance as well as minor
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Mobility is a little bit of magic word in weightlifting and powerlifting, especially as new people are popping into the weight room and are finding that some things aren’t quite as easy to do as seen on Instagram or Reddit. A lot of people struggle to get into a proper bottom position in the squat,
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The hook grip has been in use in the Olympic weightlifting community for decades. Used for very heavy pulls and on-stage competition, the hook grip is pretty simple but brutal, and is essentially limitless. What I mean by that is that when you’re pulling a snatch or a clean and jerk, it’s rarely your grip
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