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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

A Bare Essential of Olympic-Style Weightlifting: Jim Schmitz Explains Naked Bar Lifting

by Randall J. Strossen, Ph.D. | ©2012 IronMind

Rein in your imagination because when three-time USA Olympic weightlifting team coach Jim Schmitz says “naked bar lifting,” he is talking about lifting just the bar—with no plates.

Think naked bar lifting is for weaklings and wimps? Virtually all top Olympic-style weightlifters, no matter how tough and strong, do plenty of naked bar training. This is Evgeniy Chigishev (Russia)—the man who cooly outsnatched Hossein Rezazadeh. All of these top supers do lots of naked bar training—you should too. IronMind® | Randall J. Strossen photo.
Think naked bar lifting is for weaklings and wimps?  Virtually all top Olympic-style weightlifters, no matter how tough and strong, do plenty of naked bar training.  This is Evgeniy Chigishev (Russia)—the man who cooly outsnatched Hossein Rezazadeh at the 2005 World Weightlifting Championships while Iranian fans showered him with boos, and who Eurosport weightlifting commentator David Goldstrom called “the moral victor” in the super heavyweight class at the 2008 Olympics, given that Chigishev was edged out of the gold medal by 1 kg in the total by a man (Matthias Steiner) who outweighed him by nearly 22 kg.  All of these top supers do lots of naked bar training—you should too.  IronMind® | Randall J. Strossen photo.


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