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Coaching breakdowns, programming, and technique from the team behind Team Aita.
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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Technique
Bulgarian Weightlifting: What a Decade Under the Hardest Training System Actually Taught Me - Max Aita
I trained directly under Ivan Abadjiev. Here's what the training was really like, the three things I still use, and what doesn't translate today.
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