These high-intensity barbell movements are redefining functional fitness, athletic performance, and total-body conditioning across elite training programs in the United States.

MICHAEL REAMS stood a few inches in front of my barbell. My job was to lift the bar from the floor over my head into a squat — without hitting him. I quaked a little inside. But Reams is not someone ...

She has won nearly every accolade the sport has to offer, but Tokyo Olympics silver-medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu remains in relentless pursuit of one elusive milestone — the 90kg snatch lift.

Multiple-time World Championships medallist Mirabai Chanu registered a combined lift of 205kg (89kg in snatch + 116kg in clean and jerk), setting new national marks in snatch, clean and jerk and total ...

The strongest sport at the Olympics is set to take stage on Wednesday, Aug. 7, in Paris where five Americans eye the podium. Olympic weightlifting, simply known to athletes as weightlifting, is not to ...

Thirty years ago, the only time you’d see a guy doing Olympic lifts was, well, at the Olympics. Nowadays, many of my clients tell me they want to do the barbell snatch and the barbell clean and jerk ...