The sport of Olympic weightlifting is notorious for being the sport with athletes with little skinny arms. Arms that look like spaghetti hanging from a meatball, or limbs like Spongebob. The sport is also notorious for having REALLY UNASSUMINGLY STRONG athletes. Ordinary people see a weightlifter walking down the street and they be like, “There is no way that person lifts weights!” We mean no disrespect, but we’re looking at you Sohrab Moradi, king of the dad bod, slayer of Tian Tao...

We all know the sport of olympic weightlifting is extremely difficult. It is hard, hard. Like new game plus difficulty levels. There are a whole bunch of movement patterns that need to be mastered for technical precision. There is a whole bunch of stress that is put upon the joints of the body: knees, elbows, shoulders, hips and ankles to name a few. There is also a lot of strength work that goes into the sport of olympic weightlifting...

Catching a snatch and stabilizing a jerk takes tremendous overhead strength, technique and chutzpah. Fearlessness and loads of strength is the only way a person is throwing double body weight up overhead....

Establishing a technical model that can be taught is a tough task. Not only is establishing the model tough, but creating a model that is repeatable and can carryover from lifter to lifter is a struggle for olympic weightlifting coaches. Let’s face it, there are numerous body types that compete in the sport of olympic weightlifting. We got athletes with long legs, short legs, great ankle dorsiflexion, hip mobility for days, physical heights, arm lengths and the gambit of body levers is ever an amalgamation with whoever walks into the gym and decides olympic weightlifting is the desired competitive demonstration of sport to be explored...