You spoke, and I listened. The series, “Your Monday Moment of Zen” in which I splatter together a bunch of links to cool stuff and my own musings on any topic under the sun was far more popular than I’d thought. I’d started them as a weekly thing, then I tried to shift them over… Continue Reading
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The Art of Olympic Weightlifting
The subtitle to my blog is not Zen and the Art of Weightlifting for nothing. It isn’t a joke, nor is it my way of being gimmicky. I don’t take it lightly. I strongly believe that Olympic Weightlifting is an Art Form in the same way that Kung Fu is. My friends Adam Stoffa and JC… Continue Reading
Fear and Loathing at the Las Vegas Open, 2012
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the Squats began to take hold … And suddenly there was a terrible roar all round us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred… Continue Reading
The Lessons You Learn While Drinking With Bulgarians, Part 2: Coaches Are All Liars and The 3 Big Lies of Snatch Learning
In Part 1, I told you how a few nights ago my wife and I were hanging out with my step dad, Nasko, and a family friend Dmitri for dinner and drinks. Dmitri and Nasko are both gymnastics coaches, my wife is a math teacher, and I’m … well you know what I do! What… Continue Reading
The Lessons You Learn While Drinking With Bulgarians, Part 1: Climb the Rope!
This is Part 1, read Part 2 on how Coaches are ALL Liars here. Last night, my wife and I went over to my step-dad Nasko’s place for dinner along with our family friend, Dimitri. Both Nasko and Dimitri are Bulgarian, were once members of the Bulgarian national gymnastics team, and competed at the world… Continue Reading
How to Follow Our WOD’s, OR, A Bulgarian Primer
I’ve gotten a number of emails from lifters who live in areas without a coach or club who wonder if it would be good for them to follow the Workouts of the Day (WOD’s) that I post up on PDX Weightlifting. The answer I have is Yes and No. I put them up (sporadically, at… Continue Reading
Your Monday Moment of Zen #1
Seems like there is a trend in blogging whereby bloggers will do a weekly round-up of all the stuff they were reading that fits into the scope of their own blogs, and then list them out for their own readers. Bret Crontreras does something like this at his blog, and in the evolution blogging world… Continue Reading
How to Train Like an Olympic Weightlifter in 3 Easy Steps
Mike Burgener has said, “I don’t believe in over training, just under recovery.” And he is not alone. We Olympic lifting coaches have all said similar things over the years (myself included). But, these types of statements are highly misleading and tend to give off the wrong impression. A better statement would be, “Train as… Continue Reading
The ‘Secret’ to Bulgarian Training in Olympic Weightlifting
It is an understatement to say that Olympic weightlifters are obsessed with Bulgarians. No, not the people, or the great food (my Step Dad is Bulgarian, I can testify), or the copious consumption of vodka (well … maybe a bit of that). No, Olympic weightlifters are obsessed with Bulgarian weightlifters, and even more so with… Continue Reading
