What Is Olympic Weightlifting?
Olympic lifting, sometimes simply called weightlifting is a sport where you complete two lifts, the clean and jerk and the snatch for maximal weight.
In competition, you get three chances in each lift to lift as much weight as you can. 1st place is given to the person with the highest total in each lift, and the person with the highest total combined of the two. It can get a little complicated as weight plays a role in scoring, for example, if lifter A lifted 300 lbs in the snatch and lifter B lifted 297 lbs, but lifter A weights 20 more pounds than lifter B, lifter B would win by virtue of weighing less than lifter A.
But, the Olympic lifts are great at strength building, explosiveness, muscle tone, speed, including vertical jump. Some even claim that the Olympic lifts are too difficult t...