Search results

Then why is the US good at other Olympic sports? Sprinting and Swimming, for example? Do the Chinese only farm out weightlifters? No, I think they just have better training methods I don’t have a sports science degree but I know more than you think I do. believe it or not, I do understand...

Not trolling at all. What we need is toughness. From what I understand Eastern European lifters do a lot more volume. The whole “lift 3 times a week so you don’t overtrain” is American garbage and it doesn’t work. There is no substitute for grit and hard work. So when you slam the “no...

It’s because any time you turn something over to “academic credentials” what you get is pussified crap. The OP says the #1 most important thing is “injury prevention.” That’s typical academic crap. No, the most important thing is performance. And winning. I don’t want our guys spending...

I disagree with all of this. Injury prevention is good and all but what we need is size, strength and explosiveness. And toughness. There’s a reason the USA hasn’t won a medal in weightlifting in decades. Because the academic credentials are crap. What they’re teaching is crap.