Featured Article
June 18, 2018
Scaling of Body Mass in Weightlifting: Consequences for the World’s Strongest Weightlifters Andrew Charniga Sportivnypress “…excess bodyweight first creates additional loading on the sportsman’s muscles because the weightlifter has to lift this excess weight during the execution of the …
Featured Article
June 11, 2018
Variations of the Jump Under the Barbell in the Snatch and the Clean Andrew Charniga SportivnyPress.com “Research has shown that the longer the athlete’s feet are in the non – support position the faster the trunk descends.” Druzhinin, 1974 Figure …
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February 11, 2018
Expression of Strength in Weightlifting Andrew Charniga Sportivnypress.com “The forces produced by muscles in weightlifting does not take into account the sum of the power of the muscular contraction minus the resistance of the antagonist muscles. In theory less resistance …
The Russian Weightlifting Library is compilation of articles (weightlifting yearbooks - called Yezhegodnik in Russian) and books written by prominent Soviet era sport scientists.
The article compilations (yearbooks) and books cover a wide range of topics from weightlifting technique, training methodology, planning training, restoration, analysis of the training and technique of eilte weightlifters; research of strength training methodology and so forth. All texts are translated directly from the original Russian to English.
