>The information that you are looking for is probably in the above links. That includes routines, shoes, information on the lifts, etc. Check out the pastebins for literature or the reddit faq for general information.
Owg is dead. Sad to say. We can try to keep it alive but Veeky Forums is just first year lifters again
Anthony Thompson
To be fair, when the largest contributor to the threads was blueshoes - a mental Canadian with a mom high up in politics who could only power snatch 70kg in an overweight condition - it was dead from the start.
I can split-style c&j 150kg, but even I understand the sport of WL is fucked. It's completely unattractive to novices and in 2017 the only way you can compete in the sport is to start from childhood while living in a country with state sponsored doping (China, Russia, EE, ME, Asia, etc).
My money is it being removed from the olympics very soon. It does nothing in ratings and the stench of hormone use is greater than other sports.
Christopher Reed
We need an American to break through in the sport to get proper exposure.
Lincoln Foster
I don't think that even that will save weightlifting. American recently broke heaviest raw squat. But that didn't get people doing powerlifting
What we need is to make it easier to preform this stuff. You can learn how to squat from 20 different YouTube channels. Best weightlifting videos are 10 years old with piss poor audio quality
That'll get rid of the barrier to entry to be on par with powerlifting.
Nathan Torres
>That'll get rid of the barrier to entry to be on par with powerlifting. that'll never happen
powerlifting is popular because the only mobility requirement is to not being a quadriplegic, the basic requirements to do a snatch with just the bar is 10x of that of powerlifting
Jaxon Sullivan
Won't happen because the US doesn't have state sponsored doping at youth level. If the US did they would be winning golds in 2024.
Consider China: a complete nonentity in WL with no history, culture or interest - until they tossed money and drug research at the athletes. Unsurprisingly they now win everything.
Besides the lack of interest, the biggest reason for its soon to be removal will be US interests trying to strip golds from Russia. Step 1 was the OC going hard after them for drugs.
Lucas Gonzalez
also the boom of crossfit has been huge for weightlifting
Christian Carter
>the basic requirements to do a snatch with just the bar is 10x of that of powerlifting
I'm the 150kg split c&jer.
PL may allow broken down fat fucks to win medals, but WL is just as problematic. The sport requires you to be an exact physical type to be competitive.
The squat style (i.e. WL from the late 1950s onwards) requires an exact physical type or you can't ever expect to compete: Wrong femur length? You are fucked son and will never be even an average WLer using modern form.
This isn't talked about a lot, but it limits a huge portion of Caucasians and blacks physically. By contrast a majority of Asiatics and Middle Easterners have correct femurs.
(This is commonly talked about in pre-1970s WLing literature, but has fallen out of vogue. I suspect the Chinese noticed this and this is why they put so much money into youth WL and drugs for the athletes.)
Owen White
>You can learn how to squat from 20 different YouTube channels. Best weightlifting videos are 10 years old with piss poor audio quality
That's a shame. Torokhtiy has so many good videos for weightlifting, but everything is in Russian. It's all captioned, but I feel people miss out on learning from him because they click the video, hear a foreign language, and turn it off.
