by Yasha Kahn | Nov 30, 2015 | weightlifting
A few years ago I asked Vasiliy Polovnikov to help me with my lifting. “Well, to start, your shoulders are too small. You need to press,” he said to me. I told him that I do press, quite frequently. “Clearly, it’s not working. You’re either not actually...
by Yasha Kahn | Nov 23, 2015 | weightlifting
A few weeks ago I was on vacation and wrote a post about active and passive rest. Now that I’m getting back to lifting, it seems fitting to write about what the first workouts should look like after taking a break. But first: why, and when should we take vacations...
by Yasha Kahn | Nov 16, 2015 | weightlifting
The first time I was told to never step over the weightlifting bar was by my coach Lev Epshteyn. “Would you ever step over your partner in training, or your opponent at the end of a match?” he asked me, knowing I had a background in wresting. I said I wouldn’t,...
by Yasha Kahn | Nov 10, 2015 | travel, weightlifting
“Enough of this, I need to get horizontal” was a token phrase said by Klokov during our 2013 seminar tour with Ilyin and Polovnikov. Being a professional weightlifter is a full-time gig. The hours spent every day in the gym is only a part of what’s...
by Yasha Kahn | Nov 2, 2015 | weightlifting
The Soviet Weightlifting System has produced a lot of champions. China, Bulgaria, Cuba, Kazakhstan, and many other countries have modeled their weightlifting systems after the Soviets, also producing some of the most legendary weightlifters in the world. So what is...
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