Instead, we recommend just clicking on this Olympic barbell from Nordic Lifting. It has a 190,000-PSI tensile strength and dual knurl marks for weightlifting and powerlifting, making it plenty ...

Olympic lifting is the most complex things you can do with a barbell; the complexity makes the maneuvers both extremely beneficial for athletes, but also extremely difficult to do properly.

Oly lifting does more than make you stronger. In the words of Jenny Werba, owner and head coach of United Barbell at CrossFit SOMA in San Francisco, "Olympic lifting has become how I meditate ...

At most gyms in the U.S., a typical (Olympic) barbell weighs either 45 pounds, or 20 kilograms (which works out to 44 pounds). If the rest of your weight plates are in pounds, go ahead and assume ...

As ballsy moves go, yanking a loaded barbell from the floor to above your head makes even the biggest bench look about as impressive as a knees-down press-up. But Olympic lifts offer more than ...

IWF approved for all major lifting events, this whopping set is best suited to advanced lifters. It offers a variety of coloured disc plates, a 20Kg Olympic Barbell (7ft) and spring collars.

Like most heavy, rolling things, it was hard for anyone to stop this – especially Rogers, who understandably needed a second to compose herself. Eventually, the barbell stopped, but only because ...

It is executed in two steps; in stage one, the clean, the athlete lifts a barbell from the floor to her shoulders. In stage two, the jerk, the athlete moves the bar from her shoulders to overhead.

To see how hard Olympic lifting really was, I went to train with Chloe Whylie, a strength and conditioning coach and silver medalist at the 2019 England Weight Lifting Grand Prix. Honestly, I was ...