I’m not a big weight room guy. In high school, I got called “Bird Legs,” and in college, I picked up the nickname “Stretch.” ...

(You can lift more weight the second way, which is why they are separate events. Each lifter’s best snatch and best clean and jerk are added together to find out who wins.) Weight lifting ...

Goldman told curious commenters that he dropped the weight the "old school" way by "eating clean, riding my bike, lifting weights." Friends of the Food Network chef including Michael Voltaggio and ...

so if an athlete lifts 90 kg in the snatch and 130kg in the clean and jerk, their overall score is 220kg. Three referees judge weightlifting, and a majority verdict is accepted as official. A good ...

in the clean and jerk, for a total of 298kg (657 lbs.) good enough for third place. The 20-year-old became the first American man to win an Olympic weightlifting medal since Guy Carlton took bronze in ...

It was a tense duel for gold in the final moments of the men’s 109 kg weightlifting competition, but with an Olympic record clean and jerk lift of 237 kg, Uzbekistan’s Akbar Djuraev powered his way to ...

We’ve asked the experts for their insights into weight lifting and the nervous system. The study, which was carried out by Dr Isabel Glover and Professor Sturary Baker from the Movement ...