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Daily Doubles! Weekly Weightlifting Workouts: Sept 7

September 6, 2015 by Nick Horton

Week 5 of a Squat Strength Cycle. This is your “taper”, or rather, a slight deload (lowering of the total load of your weekly workouts). That said, don’t mistake this as a “contest taper”, as it isn’t meant to deload you that much. Your total load is certainly much lower this week than it was […]

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Filed Under: Daily Doubles Tagged With: clean, jerk, program, programming, snatch, squat, squat nemesis, weightlifting

Bad Bar Path? Crush Your 3rd-Pull: Speed & Power on the Snatch & Clean

June 2, 2015 by Nick Horton

NOTE: Today’s video is not a “normal” episode — it’s part of a HUGE 7-week series on the 3rd-Pull for the Nemesis Journal. Don’t worry, this video makes sense by itself. But if you want to go deeper, make sure you sign up for the weekly journal and watch every episode — there are a […]

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Filed Under: Episodes Tagged With: 3rd pull, clean, drill, hoedown, snatch, technique, weightlifting

Swan Rows: Move Better – Snatch & Clean 3rd-Pull Drill

May 20, 2015 by Nick Horton

Fix your 3rd pull by learning to move your body better — In today’s episode of Weightlifting Academy! It’s one thing to be shown correct technique. It’s quite another to be able to pull it off with correct body mechanics. Most beginners I see simply don’t have the level of mind-body neurological connection that they […]

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Filed Under: Episodes Tagged With: clean, drills, mobility, movement, snatch, technique, traps, weightlifting

Butt-Stomp Drill – Fix Your Snatch & Clean: Move Faster, Catch Harder

March 24, 2015 by Nick Horton

You are too SLOW and too WIMPY in your Snatch & Clean… it’s time to fix that. In today’s episode of Weightlifting Academy, the Butt-Stomp Drill! Learn to Move FASTER & Catch HARDER in both the Snatch and the Clean. There are two parts to the drill: BUTT: Flex your ass, hard and fast STOMP: […]

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Weekly Q&A: Fried Legs, Stomachs, & Erupting Volcanoes

August 20, 2014 by Nick Horton

“I see more clearly than ever before that even our greatest troubles spring from something that is as admirable and sound as it is dangerous—from our impatience to better the lot of our fellows.” — Karl Popper This is part of a new weekly series where I will answer a selection of questions from various […]

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Filed Under: weekly qa Tagged With: blocks, clean, deload, nemesis, recovery, snatch, squat, volcano, volume

Sexy Hips, Part 2

March 20, 2013 by Nick Horton

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In this episode of Weightlifting Academy… Tamara and my “bet gone bad” continues. I explain why getting your hips through is so important to BOTH the snatch and clean… ALSO, We get a little demo from my co-coach, co-conspirator, and pretty demo girl Coach Tamara. In the next episode I’ll show you the specific drills […]

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Sexy Hips, Part 1: How Tamara Fixed Her Clean In Less Than One Hour

March 18, 2013 by Nick Horton

How to get your hips through on the clean in less than one hour!

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Catch, Stop, Down – Clean Quick Tip 5 (of 5)

February 24, 2013 by Nick Horton

Do you Power Clean MORE than you can Full Clean?? Then this Drill is for YOU

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Clean Quick Tip #4 (of 5)

February 22, 2013 by Nick Horton

I get attacked by a puppy at the end of this video… in a good way 🙂 But before that, I have a great tip for you if you are (like me) … shaped more like a Chimpanzee than a human. AKA, if you have long arms for your body. Having long arms for your […]

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Clean Quick Tip #3 (of 5)

February 21, 2013 by Nick Horton

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I might start a few fights with this one…

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