It is a two-motion lift – the clean and the jerk – and allows for the use of much greater weight than the snatch. The first part, the clean, is done by pulling the bar up to the shoulders, with bent ...

Your warmup sets with the empty bar or lighter weights This step is essential if you're doing a heavy lift. Let’s say you’re going to do squats at 200 pounds today. Just because you’ve ...

Once you start lifting bigger and bigger dumbbells ... the bottom and connected by a handle, rather than two weights separated by a bar and evenly distributed on either side of your grip.