Stuff You Should Read / Watch

The 80-90% Gap Program is an article written by the quite witty Matt Foreman.  He is a regular over at Catalyst Athletics.  The gist of the article is that sometimes it pays to just lift sub maximally for a while to allow you to work on other things in your program or life.  Good common sense article.

Competition makes everything better, so it is about time someone stepped up.  Jon North over at The Attitude Nation has just created the brand new American Weightlifting Federation.  This is a great way to make USA Weightlifting step their game a bit or just step aside.  The kickoff for the AWF will be January 2015 in Las Vegas.  Some of the high points of the event is a live DJ, great vendors, bar slamming, and the fact that you get to pick six songs to come out to, for all six attempts.  Time to move the sport forward!

Big lift by Jared Fleming