The Casuals Guide To Olympic Weightlifting

[@kameronfadden6210]

Wii resort background is goated

[@deficharliegosseTK]

Yeah! Lol

[@randyyyyyyy6977]

He also casually dropped in the deus ex theme. Zach you’re such a fucking nerd. ❤

[@spongechameleon6940]

It's so good I've been tryin to find it

[@MarkarthCityGuard]

Better be careful Nintendo doesn't sue him

[@dustypirate28]

Wii Sports Resort background, and Bioshock background music.

[@emcarpenter5206]

Considering the origins of the sport I think if Weightlifting is ever removed from the Olympics a good potential name for it could be "Classic Weightlifting." Even now it's nothing new that some people refer to the snatch and C&J as the "classic lifts" so there would even be some precedent for such a name.

[@LuLzezRoflcopter]

Great idea, classical lifting like classical music 😊 For sure people are already using this terminology to describe the lifts

[@kas3dot0]

I was also thinking of "Technical Weightlifting" or "Technical Lifting". The Snatch and Clean and Jerk are two of the most difficult and technical lifts. Although people probably still won't understand the actual lifts of weightlifting. 😅

[@patrickedwards5804]

Why not real weightlifting, like real tennis?

[@marcomendez5010]

I like "Classic Weightlifting". Maybe even "Athletic Weightlifting", but classic sounds best.

[@Epidian]

There's a lot more lifts far more classic than the Olympic set such as the bent press.

[@sandrost4243]

Hell yeah that ending gave me goosebumps. I came over to weightlifting from powerlifting after getting hooked watching youtube videos of weightlifters in the training halls. The depth of their squats, the speed, the precision and just insane weights they were snatching and cleaning blew my mind. I was an 'elite' powerlifter, and now I am just a very average weightlifter, but powerlifting was just missing something that I found in weightlifting and I never looked back. There is nothing more impressive to me as seeing someone snatching 180 kg, it seems superhuman. It really is a beautiful sport.

[@vadimdon]

Coudn't agree more. Weightlifting is far more impressive than powerlifting

[@SebaRoz123]

@@vadimdondo you say the same about MMA and Boxing for example? I don’t understand people who compare them and saying BS about powerlifting when it’s a great strength sport

[@nicholasschneider2056]

Especially if you’ve had joints pop out. It makes me uncomfortable watching so I keep tuning in.

[@MidnightIsolde]

​Powerlifting is imo essentially a more formalised and smart general gym training, unless you are high level. Since you can do it in any gym with a decent amount of racks and benches. Whereas weightlifting requires slightly more specialised equipment (yes I know powerlifting does too, but I'd say WL does to a greater degree), such as proper oly bars, including women's bar and technique bars, and blocks. These things are less commonly seen. Whereas you can usually find a number of decent powerlifting and bodybuilding gyms, weightlifting specialist gyms are less common. ​@@vadimdon

[@mattcooper8403]

The last bit of the video is the reason why I fell in love with this sport. Coming from an athletic background of sports and martial arts as a kid and a teenager I've always been attracted to athletic style sports. Tried the typical gym bro stuff and didn't like it, tried Powerlifting for about a year and it wasn't my thing but when I discovered Weightlifting I was immediately hooked and loved it. The rush of doing my first successful Snatch or Clean and Jerk was so different to the first time I benched 100 kg. The ferocity and grit that lifters have is amazing to watch, the calm and collected demeanor of lifters is amazing to witness. The sport is art and poetry in motion, and that is one of the many things that makes it special

[@bamafit1302]

That’s what I’m saying bro. I’m used to powerlifting and bodybuilding workouts since that’s all I did since high school. But it was a video of Tian Tao throwing my max deadlift over his head like nothing that lit that fire in me “like GODDAMN IVE BEEN MISSIN OUT ON THIS” 😂 just started practicing the oly lifts 2 months ago and still succ but it’s fun

[@bamafit1302]

And indeed, POETRY IN MOTIONN

[@danhill7889]

There is something magical about seeing, and if you have done it yourself feeling, a perfect snatch. To see hundreds of pounds go from ground to overhead in a straight line, so fast that if you blinked you might have missed it, is one of the best highlights of any sport.

[@jimpericaud6739]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video and felt very close to it. I started “Olympic lifting” in 1963 and was a major part of my life for 20 years. As an athlete, being on the Penn State team that won the 1973 National Collegiate title, holding the State of Florida snatch record in 1975 and as an administrator, President of the Florida Weightlifting Federation in the 80s. It’s a great sport and hope it grows in popularity.

[@akwaz9111]

nice to hear that ! You have had a great carreer

[@khangton676]

"weightlifting is the perfect expression or precision, timing, power, grit, and grace" - ZT I got into weightlifting 3 months ago and you summed up my love for Olympic lifting in just a few words. Thank you for this video!

[@LuLzezRoflcopter]

Wow you just blew my mind. Powerlifting by name is 100% what Olympic weightlifting is under a physics definition. Todays power lifting should be called something like maximum lifting, or big boys only no baby weight lifting

[@tiffanymckoy2748]

Explaining weightlifting to a non gym goer is the hardest thing... I literally have to show videos to people. 😮‍💨

[@federz666]

I have to hide away when doing my lifts in my gym because I always have people come up to me like “dude wtf are you doing?”.. jacked people who don’t know about us is so bizarre.

[@bigengine74]

After showing them videos they still call it bodybuilding. Some of my friends call it crossfit. I just can't win here. lol

[@bigengine74]

@@federz666 Im creating quite a fan base at my local gym. People seem to love watching it. lol

[@tiffanymckoy2748]

The "Its so scary putting that weight over your head" is the common reaction.

[@footba11fan41ife]

@@bigengine74dude one of my favorite things is everybody watching me lift lol it motivates me more

[@TheTempestSync]

Make Weightlifting Great Again!

[@QQyoko]

So is Strongman like the anti-WL? Barely any consistency in equipment, open gear usage that nobody wants to change, and unapologetically brutish... yet still fun as hell to watch.

[@babayaga20000]

Yeah pretty much lol

[@espenstoro]

Certainly the most audience friendly of the strength sports. It's a show first and foremost. There's nothing like a guy pulling a huge plane, or running full speed with huge anvils and kegs that normal people struggle to even get off the ground. It's relatable. No one knows what it's like to snatch, it's such an alien thing, even to most lifters.

[@MorzakEV]

Man, I love strongman, but I can’t think of anyone in that sport that has the shoulder mobility to snatch properly. Lol

[@jasonmurray4714]

I introduced my 16y/o daughter to it recently. She's done a snatch and clean workout (intro classes). She's a swimming so I want her to get ready for training in Uni. She seems to like it so far. It clicks with her technique oriented mind.

[@triwithlaura3138]

I think the technique and training style of front crawl has so many parallels with oly lifting. Good luck to her 😊

[@jasonmurray4714]

@@triwithlaura3138 It's more to help her with explosiveness off the block and off the walls on her turns.

[@lorenzogiani7190]

The most usually used spanish term for the sport is "Halterofilia" (from greek halteres-weights and philia-love for). French also uses the same term, but in french lol. I believe, althought it has the same meaning as "weightlifting", that it is distinct enough from other more commonly used terms that it serves as a good name for the sport.

[@sorayaimperial]

Same in Portugal. When I started introducing clean and jerk and snatch into my workout, took me a while to figure out that when peeps talked on the internet in english about "oly lifting", it was exactly the same as halterofilismo. I've seen recently some people calling it Levantamento Olímpico, like retranslating from the english, which is dumb because we have a perfectly nice word for it.

[@StoneHeadBr]

In Brazil we call it "halterofilismo", it means the same thing as halterofilia.

[@Theo-ul8qm]

I would be very sad to see this sport lose its Olympic place. The reason I say this is because, to me, this is the OG weights sport. It has a much longer history than bodybuilding, powerlifting, and crossfit. What's more, there's a primal appeal to seeing someone lift a heavy barbell overhead. I think some of that appeal, for the general population, has been taken away by the popularization of commercial gyms with lots of equipment, but I imagine that if all I had was a barbell and some plates in my garage, the first this I would do is compete with my friends on who can lift it overhead. I also appreciate that weightlifting promotes technical proficiency in highly complex lifts, which, let's be honest, neither bodybuilding nor powerlifting do. And regarding the name - of course, today it creates confusion. But this is the OG strength sport, so back in the day the name was created, it was probably the only sport in which people lifted weights. So, quite frankly, it's the other sports who should differentiate themselves, not weightlifting. I understand that the sport has had its difficulties for a long time. And that today its popularity is probably at an all-time low. But to me, a regular guy who trains in a gym to look good, weightlifting is so much more attractive than powerlifting - the main reason being that it's more beautiful to watch. There's no appeal I find in seeing overweight guys squat a ton of weight 5 inches and call it success. There's awe in seeing a man move 200+ kg from the ground to overhead in probably around a second.

[@MrRkaperak]

It is surprising the amount of people who see me do a clean or snatch and immediately are like "oh, you do crossfit?", most people don't relate it to a stand alone sport. The common person seems to know of bodybuilding, strong man, and crossfit.

[@edst8600]

In Russia we call olympic weightlifting "heavy athletics" (тяжёлая атлетика), while running, jumping, throwing spears e.t.c is "light athletics" (легкая атлетика), and powerlifting is called powerlifting

[@josephperkins4857]

Ah the old time 1800's early 20th century term =)

[@traaaaan]

Russians seem to have a special name for everything that makes no sense. War in Ukraine? Nah, it's a special operation.

[@JohnSmith-hv6qk]

Same in Czechia

[@zanderrose]

In english, “heavy athletics” often refers to the lifting and throwing events at Scottish Highland Games

[@Zhdhcjen]

Yeah in Germany, too. Schwerathletik is heavy athletics which includes Powerlifting, Weightlifting, and Bodybuilding while Leichtathletik is light athletics aka Track & Field

[@patrickedwards5804]

Your peroration moved me to tears. I havent been more emotional since I messed up a 125kg snatch.. Good work and may the force (F=Ma that is) continue to be with you. 😢

[@HighMaintenancePS]

😂👍🏻

[@menkaragamble8175]

The transition to overhead snatch at 10:58 was the smoothest thing I've ever seen. Absolutely beautiful 🥲

[@matthewzito6130]

It seems like high-level weightlifters in the past were somewhat older on average than the high-level weightlifters of today. I suspect that this may be due to the greater strength component of oldschool weightlifting back when the Clean-and-Press was still a competition lift, compared to modern weightlifting where speed, power, agility and refined technique are far more important than upper body strength. Similarly, I've noticed that Powerlifters and Strongman Competitors seem to peak later and remain competitive longer than most athletes. I suspect that this is because strength takes longer to develop than most other athletic attributes (speed, agility, etc.), while also persisting for longer with continued training.

[@davorzdralo8000]

Sportsmen were older in everything before. It wasn't a viable career before, so it was just a hobby for mostly well off older adults, and it was like that in most sports. In F1, guys in their 40's used to be champions, now you have Max who is 26 and a veteran in the sport. It's bonkers.

[@matthewzito6130]

@@davorzdralo8000 I don't think Soviet lifters had day jobs.

[@davorzdralo8000]

@@matthewzito6130 how far in the past are we talking about? I was thinking all the way back to 30's and 40's.

[@matthewzito6130]

@@davorzdralo8000 The Clean and Press was an Olympic event from 1928 to 1972.

@@davorzdralo8000 and you've 43yr Fernando Alonso. F1 absolute peak fitness/speed... isn't necessary unlike snatch or 100m sprint.

[@tommysmith5479]

I was surprised to discover the difference between weight lifting and power lifting a few years ago. When I looked into weight lifting, I realised that it was actually very technical and required true athleticism as well as strength. When I now watch it I am left in awe at these sports people.

[@claudio.robles]

dude your video pops up like " best youtube thesis to binge watch"... this is awesome

[@pateHNBTA]

For us, spanish speaker, we know the sport as "Halterofilia" I'm not sure what would be the correct translation for english but the word "Halter" or "Halteras" comes from the greek word ἁλτῆρες, that was like a type of dumbbell used in Ancient Greece and the word "Filia" also comming from a greek word φιλία that means love. So, I guess the word resembles the "love for weights" and it's the term we use for Olympic Weightlifting sport.

[@viktorbodnar7738]

I see what you did there, with playing "Everybody lies" from Deus Ex under the Aján Tamás parts ;) Great use of Deus Ex music in general!

[@achaarpickler]

One had to applaud Zack's efforts

[@maakamakana7007]

its will always be weightlifting to me, because I started 55yrs ago, before powerlifting, and cross fit, whatever that is,,it was not weight training or body building, so weightlifting is the name for me

[@marymissmary]

Great video. These lifts are still my favorite way to prevent osteoporosis 😂🏋️‍♀️💪

[@maxwhiteman3049]

Austin nailed the music on this, Bioshock backing is choice

[@mjcaple]

I literally WOO!'d at the end. Good job with this one!🎉

[@maceworks_]

Same lol

[@pierreblumm]

Well, out here in France we use the term "Halterophilie" (latin roots ?) and this term is only used to describe our sport. YET people still don't understand what I'm talking about when I tell them I do Halterophilie... They usually tell me "oh yeah you do bodybuilding ?". The problem isn't the name.. It's the popularity of the sport itself.

[@batatanna]

Same here in Brazil. Had people think "halterofilismo" is bodybuilding

[@brainego917]

Zack, this is amazing job right here! I'm powerlifter and I already started thinking about to switch to weightlifting! Beautiful! Fantastic end

[@SebaRoz123]

If you want to switch because you want to try WL, that’s fine. But don’t let this as*hols tear PL down because they believe powerlifters are non athletic or technique focused athletes, or any of that BS

[@zerog4261]

Fantastic vid. My two favourite sports are cycling and weightlifting. Can you imagine the drugs bill involved???

[@poxx1525]

The background is legendary

[@ProfessorTurnipAlpha]

so many fire video game needle drops, Alex is on beast mode

[@robschilke]

Solid video Z

[@xXJeReMiAhXx99]

These backgrounds are legendary

[@lalampen]

Love this video - thank you!

[@JamieoftheNorth]

Solid evergreen mini-doc. Great info in this video!

[@andrewhernandez9674]

A solid video and good choice on athletes for the thumbnail.

[@noahcarswell4731]

Casey Rocket getting interviewed at the beginning haha

[@khristophsatori8826]

We love Olympic Weightlifting too Zack.. We love it too ❤🏋️‍♂️

[@jacobellis9419]

Zack, I don't know if you listen to me from my last comment about the background, but the current background is amazing. Five star.

[@RobinMuirhead]

Excellent piece I like your documentary style vlogs. A new name to describe lifting weights, weighted agile dynamic athelics!

[@bryceehret8149]

I just got into the sport and I love it

[@maceworks_]

Great video, brother! 🙏🏻🙌🏻

[@K4R3N]

OIC: "corruption you say?" FIFA: "hold my beer"

[@Benjamins456-v]

Cry

[@jamesguacamole3246]

nice vid ZT - thanks for the casual summary

[@northern4112]

Great job with this 🙌💯

[@calebschultz6724]

Excellent analysis 👏

[@lololFloro]

Excellent video. Thank you for making it

[@ibfreely8952]

The good lift announcer in uzbekistan was the goat, they really need to adopt this style in more competitions.

[@treybroussard4616]

This was super interesting. Great video.

[@josuemorenocorral2349]

Thank you man. That was badass

[@Karaage_]

The Deus Ex music is hitting, your editor has good fucking taste.

[@triwithlaura3138]

Same goes for Olympic Handball and Olympic Distance triathlon. It's perfectly fine to stay oly lifting 😊

[@johnescobar9951]

I love Weightliting❤❤

[@samarthur1847]

Great video, thank you 😊

[@OfKilmurray]

It will be Olympic Weightlifting forever

[@pak06292]

this videos are always great🙌

[@bg_x6558]

Snatch and C&J are indeed difficult. That’s why people tune them down into not-over-the-head movements to suit the mass, leading to widely distributed misunderstanding.

[@Mr.Chapmann]

I love this content ! I love watching you grow! I’m a big fan and would love to get a session in with you.

[@richardlawton1023]

Well said. Thanks

[@pedroalexandredillemburg3751]

1:21 that can be a language thing, in portuguese for example, we don't have a word for "Wrestling" (we can't wrestle), thats why we call Free Style Wrestling as "Luta Olímpica estilo livre" (olympic free style fight). I'm pretty sure in Spanish is the same thing but I don't remember if they really call that "pelea olimpica" like we do.

[@dennismitchell5992]

Solid Video

[@Mr.Ciobanu]

The fact that you need to add Olympic is just an English thing, in Romania it has its own separate word "haltere" and you perform the 2 lifts "smuls" "aruncat". At least this type he admitted that the US also takes vitamin S. And weightlifting is not the only sport with drugs, literally every fucking 100m runner in history is on the sauce, they just don't want to catch them cause they bring in more money

[@guswilliams9603]

Every single olympic athlete is on drugs, barring artistic events or events like skeet shooting. Track runners? Drugs. Swimmers? Drugs. Wrestlers? Drugs. Field events? Drugs.

[@Glasscock14]

Casey Rocket at 0:10!

[@thesea4120]

As someone who used to swim competitively at county level I'm drawn to Olympic weightlifting because it's more athletic and is more technical compared to power lifting or bodybuilding.

[@triwithlaura3138]

A swimmers mobility helps too 😊 good luck

[@SebaRoz123]

You know there are actual sports in the Olympics in which you only need to aim and shoot, right? What’s the matter of people comparing WL to PL when both are respectable. And another thing: if PL is so easy, go and compete in a local meet, see if you can get at least a 10th place as a weightlifter

[@thesea4120]

I think SBD is more accessible to learn than C+J and Snatch. I'm sure I could do a powerlifting meet but don't feel as confident if I did a Weightlifting meet. I'm only doing it to supplement my swimming. ​@@SebaRoz123

[@Swisskies]

Everyone talking about the Wii background but no one talking about the Deus Ex intro theme P.S. Great guide

[@xyrussalii]

Awesome work!

[@AngelaNess11]

Great video!

[@miguel30_]

Loved it!!!

[@ryantrotter9561]

great work

[@hiscik1362]

In Spanish we call the Olympic weightlifting as "Halterofilia" from the Greek word haltera that means weight, and phylos, that means "love for"... It's a better name but I agree with you, Powerlifting it's a more suitable name

[@zwryy7622]

Great vid

[@IGeorge94]

Would you kindly explain the reasoning using Bioshock when talking about the history of weightlifting?

[@yankorusev]

Great video

[@Pullinginspiration]

Great video💪💪

[@arthurvictor6704]

A few honest questions from me, someone who does not know that much about weightlifting but is interested in it: Are there natural elite weightlifters? Is the drug use necessary? What is the maximum total that a natural weightlifter got?

[@gelj065]

GOAT BACKGROUND

[@BodaciousBanana69]

Gotta say i love the wii background.

[@jasonshults368]

I've also been injecting myself with various fluids drawn from various mammals, with decidedly mixed results. Back to the drawing board.

[@sokjeong-ho7033]

Keep trying, you'll hit on the right fluid eventually.

[@sorayaimperial]

Like other commenter pointed out, english should just switch to the greek name for the sport (used throughout neolatin languages): halterofilismo. Halterophilism or some other analougue. Literally lover of weights!

[@lafargaa]

the wuhu island from wii sports resort... Pure cinema

[@ix_9_ix]

Goated video, but jamal browner clips he was using a deadlift bar btw

[@HashimAlmadani84]

I would love to hear your feedback about the new Junior World Record in Snatch 198 kg at 109kg Cat. by The young Iraqi lifter Ali Ammar

[@lonle6506]

In swedish weightlifting would be something like heavylyfting, while powerlifting is strengthlifting. This works pretty good

[@LatimusChadimus]

I've missed videos like these. Now you have to do one on calisthenics and one on gymnastics since doing anything at the gymnasium was once called gymnastics

[@Up2Me-h2z]

As a former competitive powerlifter i do agree. Olympic w.l is more of a test of power but powerlifting a better test of strength. Its a pretty cool sport but just like powerlifing i think its too niche to ever be a gigantic status sport. Its simply not entertaining enough to enough people.

[@rundown132]

The fact we needed a 3 minute section for PEDs alone is sad lol

[@santodominico7235]

Hey Zack love your content!...was wondering if you could give us some info on how the big Natural pro wrestlers from the 50s,60s trained? ......bruno, kolov, shit even buddy Roger's. I've tried researching but there really isn't many videos about their weight training........anyway keep up the good work.

[@drhjhulsebos]

Weight accelerating or taking the second derivative of acceleration and calling it weightsnapping or weightjouncing. I'd say take the first derivative, but jerk is already taken. 😄

[@MinhVu-ef8qh]

Holy mother of vertical jumps 😮 @10:29

[@scar310cpt]

Amazing vid!!! 🫡🫡🫡🫡

[@jorgg1382]

Slapping the TTGL theme at the end was the right choice

[@jackmanhireiii]

This was really cool

[@fpupesh]

fast forward 10 months and weighlifting was kinda shrugged under the rug and barely broadcasted and even highlighted

[@dsnodgrass4843]

That's because the USA didn't really have a dog in the fight, medal-wise, I'm guessing. American networks have gotten real homer-ish with the Games over the last 8 cycles; + a sport that has few or no American contenders gets short-shrift on their broadcasts.

[@Natureandthings83-ps4qp]

I like the no contact.

[@BigDaddyBostin]

Good one

[@longhaulblue]

It's just a name but really, powerlifting is more apt given that power is energy (force over distance) divided by time. I'd be curious to know if anyone has actually calculated the power in the weightlifting moves vs powerlifting moves.

[@МаринаАнтоновнаСтрулёва]

In Russian language, we call the sport "heavy athletics" (in contrast to "light athletics", which is track and field), so no one confuses it with lifting weights :)

[@deficharliegosseTK]

You get the like 👍 for the Clarence meet footy