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Clean

5 Tips To Improve Your Clean

Coach Max Aita and Team Juggernaut bring your 5 Tips To Improve Your Clean. Use these simple but effective tips to…

Program Design

How Does Height Affect Your Lifting?

Max Aita and Zack Telander with the assistance of Team Juggernaut lifter Janyce Okamoto, break down how height affects…

Clean

Improving the Clean

The Clean is one of the most effective tools to develop speed & power in any athlete and is critical to success for…

mobility

Improving the Snatch

If you’re struggling with your technique or mobility for the Snatch, we have got you covered in this comprehensive…

weightlifting

Troubleshooting Weightlifting Problems Pt. 3

If you have a very strong squat but are lacking the ability to accelerate the bar in the squat, here is how to fix it…

weightlifting

Weightlifting Cues and What They Mean | Clean

Improve your clean technique and your communication with your athletes/training partners with these cues from Max Aita.

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Weightlifting Cues and What They Mean | Snatch

The Snatch is an intricate mixture of strength, speed, power and coordination. Giving the athlete too much too think…

weightlifting

Troubleshooting Weightlifting Problems Pt. 2

Struggling with soft elbows or elbow re-bend in your lockouts? Max Aita is here to show you why its happening and how…

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Troubleshooting Weightlifting Problems Pt. 1

Are you able to do more in the Power variations of the Snatch and Clean than you can in the full lifts? Max Aita shows…

weightlifting

Alyssa Ritchey’s 105kg Clean and Jerk

Alyssa Ritchey made a HUGE 105kg/231# Clean and Jerk to win the 49kg/108# class at the 2018 American Open Finals. Her…

Clean

Developing Weightlifting Technique

The technique of the Snatch and Clean & Jerk are intricate and complex, when done poorly they’re a mess but when…

Jerk

Pillars of Jerk Technique

The Jerk is the most missed lift in Weighlifting, great Jerk Technique must be combined with strength and power to be…