Click on this link to download entry form –> The Bethnal Green Summer Competition The Bethnal Green Summer Competition 20th July 2013 At Bethnal Green W/L Club, 229 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 6AB Entrance Via Turin Street (no parking on site) Weigh In 9:00 to 10:00 Lift Off 11:00 For London and South East [...]
Read more →Most weightlifting instructors’ courses (including mine) will have a short section on the mechanics of weightlifting which mainly focuses on levers. The specific “take home” message of this section (also including my instructors course) tends to be that a shorter weight arm* gives a mechanical advantage** and allows us to lift more weight. If you [...]
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Read more →Although I think the skill element of weightlifting is often over emphasised (“weightlifting is 90% mental” etc. Try telling my legs that as they struggle to get up with a clean), everyone who wants to fulfil their potential in the snatch and clean & jerk needs to be aware of the need to learn and [...]
Read more →We are all aware of the key positions in the two lifts. The snatch and clean share the same key positions – the start position (or “get set”), bar at knee height, “power position”, full extension and receiving position. For the jerk it is the start position, the bottom of the dip, the top of [...]
Read more →My video of the “snatch to toes” drill caused quite a debate on one person’s facebook page. Apparently, there’s a lot of argument over in America about triple extension vs catapult technique and I accidentally stumbled into it. Don McCauley is a well known coach in America and comes over to the UK to teach [...]
Read more →I have had a look at the pull on the drill I posted and compard it to my PB snatch. On the FB debate it was stated that the drill bares no resemblance to how I actually snatched – “Naturally, there’s no footage of him successfully [...]
Read more →I’m a fan of keeping the snatch pull as straight as possible with the bar and lifter staying close together throughout the pull. I often see lifters swinging the bar out quite a lot on contact with the thighs and this can be frustrating for the lifter if it leads to failed snatches and it’s [...]
Read more →I just had an interesting (to me) conversation on Facebook with fellow weightlifting coach Marius Hardiman regarding the amount of time it takes to “master” the techniques of the snatch and clean & jerk (Marius writes some good stuff at http://www.oxfordpowersports.co.uk/ ). An article by a world champion weightlifter had suggested it takes 5 years [...]
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Read more →This February I was pleased to welcome to Bethnal Green WLC the third instructor from S&C and Personal Training company Do Training to attend the GWL Instructors Course, Julie Gooderick. While it is always good to get new business, it is especially nice when you know that previous customers are happy enough with the service [...]
Read more →I had a PT session booked at the gym today and could only get there half an hour early so didn’t have much time for a workout. I was planning to do a few front squats, thinking there’s not much more I can get done in half an hour, but on the way there I [...]
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