The Second Pull Blog — weightlifting

Lauren Fisher is only 20 years old, but has already made a name for herself – representing Team USA at the 2014 Junior World Weightlifting Championship and placing 9th at the 2014 CrossFit Games. (And she has huge ambitions for the future!) To get a better understanding what drives this unstoppable athlete, we spent a day with Lauren to find out more about how she trains, eats and stays focused on her goals.

Are you consistently having issues with successfully completing your jerk? Anton Jefferson (Olympic Weightlifting coach and founder of OLift Magazine) breaks down the common errors we make when jerking, and gives you 3 quick ways to improve your jerk now. According to Andrew Charniga’s translated Soviet text, “The jerk is missed 50% of the time in International competitions.” If this is true for the world’s best lifters, I know it’s way more prevalent on the local and national level. Many lifters can clean a bunch of weight, but that doesn’t matter if you suck at the jerk. There are so many...

The guys at Barbell Shrugged and 4x CrossFit Games winner Rich Froning want to fix your snatch. Check out their video as they walk you through the top 8 mistakes people make when snatching. And be sure to check out all of the great podcasts by Barbell Shrugged covering all things crossfit, weighltifting, and health/fitness related.

What is beauty and who defines it? When it comes to body image or the most "desirable" female body type is anybody right and is anybody wrong? CrossFit and other strength and conditioning programs are challenging our culture's idea and perceptions of what a women should and shouldn't look like. By embracing, celebrating, and rewarding an opposing new idea of beauty, a conversation has developed that affects all of us as mothers, daughters, fathers, sons, coaches, athletes, and members of society. Blogger Average2Athlete offers her insight to this issue using her own experiences as a modern female athlete. Apologies in...