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Coaching breakdowns, programming, and technique from the team behind Team Aita.
Programming
Olympic Lifting Ratios: What Your Numbers Say About Your Lifts
A straight read on the ratios coaches actually use: how to calculate them, what yours say about your lifts, and what to train when one is off.
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Technique
How to Do the Snatch Correctly (And Where Most Lifters Go Wrong)
The snatch broken into six phases, with the five mistakes that cause most missed lifts and how to fix each one.
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Guide
Youth Weightlifting: What Age Should Kids Start Training the Lifts?
Kids can learn the positions around seven or eight. Meaningful weight waits. Here’s what training actually looks like at each stage, and how to spot a good program.
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Guide
Women’s Olympic Weightlifting: Weight Classes, Records, and How It Works
Weight classes, world records, and the athletes to know, explained by a coach rather than a database.
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Programming
The Masters Olympic Weightlifting Program: 8 Weeks, Coach-Designed
An 8-week masters weightlifting program: three sessions a week, an optional fourth day, joint prep built in, and a test at the end.
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Guide
Masters Olympic Weightlifting: How Programming Should Change After 40
Most masters programs are just a younger athlete's plan with a day chopped off. Here's what actually changes after 40, and what doesn't.
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