If you think guys with GOPD can get carried away with details and idealized states, consider what you sometimes hear when it comes to Olympic-style weightlifting: you’d think you were talking to aspiring physicists who shifted their focus from multi-stage rockets to human limbs and levers.


Schmitz on the Lifts: What’s Jim Schmitz think about technique for Olympic-style weightlifting?  Artwork courtesy of IronMind®.


Not Jim Schmitz, though, who’s grounded enough to be known to watch a missed lift and while others were spewing arcane explanations, Schmitz would say, “It was too f#@k*^g heavy.”

So if you want to see what a three-time Olympic weightlifting team coach has to say about technique, follow the Training Articles menu at the top of the IronMind homepage or click here to go directly to My Take on Technique for the latest from ace weightlifting coach Jim Schmitz.

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