If you go back and forth between pounds and kilos, it helps to be able to convert them in your head. Multiply kilos by 2.2 to get pounds, or divide pounds by 2.2 to get kilos. (Kilos are "bigger" than ...

Strength and hypertrophy training may be my main style of training, but as T3’s Active Writer (the title kind of gives it away), I love keeping active, taking on new challenges, and Olympic ...

Explosively lifting a giant barbell over your head takes strength, technique, and a certain fearlessness. I’ve been training this sport—Olympic style weightlifting—for about two years now ...

Last year, Martha “Mattie” Rogers became the face of weightlifting’s resurgence in the U.S. by posting a video to Twitter. In it she hoists a heavy barbell above her head, loses control of ...

Follow this barbell workout and best barbell exercises for runners to build strength in the off season—the perfect way to improve performance come race day.

Weightlifting, all one word, is the sport in which people—wearing what look like old-timey swimsuits—pick up barbells loaded with brightly colored weights. Weight lifting, by contrast, refers ...

Olympic weightlifting, simply known to athletes as weightlifting, is not to be confused with weight lifting, the act of lifting weights; or powerlifting, a completely different strength sport.

Lifting heavy weights vs. light weights: ... On the other end of the spectrum is doing squats with an Olympic barbell, which will fatigue your muscles after only a few reps.

So, when I saw an Olympic weightlifting seminar was being held at a local gym, Awakening Strength, by a very competent Olympic weightlifting coach, Serj Maksimov, I thought this was my moment; it ...