Tag: weightlifting
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Best Rubber Bumper Plates For Weightlifting + Home Gyms
Why are these the top rubber bumper plates available on the market today? We look at material quality, durability, design, and cost.
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The Importance of Weightlifting at the Crossfit Games – 2023
At the 2021 Crossfit Games, weightlifting exercises were more popular compared to past games. The programming included 15 weightlifting exercises – 43% of the total. At the last CF Games, there were almost half of them – nine. Most likely, in the next games, their volume will increase again, and for good reason. Weightlifting /…
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Necessary Strength in Crossfit: The Games vs Sanctionals vs The Open
Although the Crossfit foundation pyramid, or “theoretical hierarchy of development” looks like this: Many athletes tend to actually place a much higher emphasis on strength when it comes to training for Crossfit competitions, however that may not be the best use of their time. It is true that the stronger you are the easier every…
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How Strong Are Crossfit Women? This Chart Shows
Since strength training is such a huge part of the Crossfit system it is no surprise that Crossfit women are much stronger than the average woman, while doing so at a lower bodyweight. But we’re not only referring to back squats and deadlifts, Crossfit women also excel at more technical olympic weightlifting movements such as…
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Best Path For Fame and Fortune? Weightlifting or Crossfit
So you’ve been training for a few years and you’ve built yourself into an incredible athlete with a lot of potential, but now you’re wondering where to focus your attention. You’ve got a solid base of raw and technical strength so you have the option to be an olympic weightlifter, but you also excel at…
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Results Show How Physically Strong Elite Female Athletes Are Compared To Males
Males are naturally physically stronger than their female counterparts, this is not news to anyone, but a good question is what is the average difference in strength? Luckily we have the answer, given to us by an event at the 2018 Crossfit Games called the “Crossfit Total“. This event gave athletes 3 attempts at each…
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Rebeka Koha Complete Week of Programming
Last week 2018 European Weightlifting champion Rebeka Koha (58kg) posted her daily training program on her Instagram giving us an inside look at how an athlete of her level trains. The program is written fully in text below for easy reading or you can see it in picture form on Koha’s instagram story reel in…
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Mattie Rogers VS. NFL Combine Players
If you’re involved in the olympic weightlifting or Crossfit communities then you most likely have heard of Mattie Rogers, and if you haven’t here are some of her accomplishments: Silver medal: 2016, 2017, 2018 Pan American Championships 2016 World University Champion Holds 3 American Records Recently Mattie and 3 other athletes from their respective sports…
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50 Best Gifts For People Who Love Working Out
Its not easy picking out gifts for fitness lovers. It’s hard to choose clothes for them because they’re half naked more often than not and its difficult to get them what equipment they truly want because its often very expensive. And you don’t want to get a boring gift card, so what do you do?…
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