The Secret is No Secret: The Truth (and Myth!) about Italian Weightlifting

ATG's Dr Boffa visited the Italian weightlifting team in the national training center in Rome. There he interviewed head coach Sebastiano Corbu about various details regarding the Italian approach to weightlifting training.
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00:00 Intro
01:15 Daily Training Philosophy
02:50 Competition "Deload"
05:25 Volume Reduction Pre Competition
08:10 Recovery & Overtraining
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Huge thanks to Lorenzo, Alessandra, and Roberto for help with the Italian translation! And many thanks to the Italian team for letting ATG visit.
Featuring Sebastiano Corbu, Giulia Miserendino, Sergio Massidda, Giulia Imperio, Nino Pizzolato, Oscar Martinez, Mirko Zanni, Lucrezia Magistris, Salvatore Esposito, Giorgia Bordignon

[@allthingsgym]

01:15 Daily Training Philosophy 02:50 Competition "Deload" 05:25 Volume Reduction Pre Competition 08:10 Recovery & Overtraining

[@davidec.4021]

Grazie! This amazing team gets basically zero recognition in Italy. Thank you for this great interview!

[@allthingsgym]

Our pleasure!

[@andreb.6221]

How are they financed

[@madworld109]

Weightlifting gets pretty much zero attention everywhere unless from fans of the sport

[@Alemovementjourney]

@@andreb.6221 armed forces sporting groups or similar generally

[@cicco277]

@@andreb.6221 Public admininstration. The athletes are hired by police or other kind of military corps, and maybe someone have other income by private sponsorship..

[@bestopinion9257]

It is because pasta quality improved lately.

[@andrp692]

I'm Italian and I compete in WL since 2010, so I've seen the landscape changing around... I think one of the biggest thing that helped to propel WL in Italy is due to Crossfit popularity and how it was blended into the pre-existing WL landscape: many CF coaches and athletes connected directly with real WL coaches, competed (and still compete) in legit WL competition and that gave/is still giving fuel for the whole Italian WL in terms of promotion (just as an example, in 2012 if I said "i compete in WL" people would look at me like "wtf?", now they "ah, cool, is it tough right?"). And having WL to be known by the masses helps a lot in terms of 1) funding 2) no. of athlets

[@danibearhugs]

Miss this voice commentating at the international meets! Thanks for the great video Boffa & ATG!

[@kevindittler6524]

Absolutely Fantastic Video, especially on the load and volume coming up on a competition. The original western premise was to deload to recover prior to a competition but many results very day usually to the negative side which did not seem to match the theory of optimal performance. After speaking to both Chinese and several European coaches at the 2003 world championships in Vancouver all of them basically had the same consensus that they kept the load at near the 100% range and only declined the volume in the last couple of days With a point being keeping the neuromuscular tension at full capacity for the nervous systems are ready to carry the load at full capacity. Thank You for all the work and videos you do. They are fantastic teaching tools!!🙏🙏🏋️‍♂️😊

[@DanielePauli]

A real coach. One of the few worldwide!

[@sakaue]

Italian is such a nice language, i think i might have to learn it now 😅

[@powercamp33]

Great video Gregor 🙏🏼

[@allthingsgym]

Dr Boffa deserves all the praise for this!

[@sandrost4243]

This is my favorite team to watch train. Love the video!

[@amazingpillowfort]

Some of the best weightlifitng content to come out recently!!!!

[@j0n5chm1dt]

Weightlifting needs more Boffa! Fantastic video, great interview with a coach who really breaks it down.

[@gerardviccars4713]

Excellent video! thank you for all your great work!

[@JourneyJoe]

Very well done vid!!

[@jacquelinemisoi5472]

Awesome video!

[@vladibarraza]

Well done! Thanks from Chile.

[@WilliamGtheFitnessCoach]

great info! Thanks

[@Joshtera]

Great video

[@maitreya6830]

I really appreciate the sober, sensitive approach here to controlling what we can control.

[@franciscoflores5855]

Bellissimo!! 🎉

[@mikexter6860]

Great Video Buddy

[@AxelBalke]

i new it was the canoli.

[@letransformateur6477]

Awesome!

[@brutalieri]

Thanks! 😊

[@WatchMeLiftt67]

I’m always down for more Italian weightlifting

[@MrAlidor]

Inspiring!

[@josephburns7561]

It's neurological, not related to strength or power. Keeping your nerve pathways familiar with heavy loads is key.

[@Chiara.Ferrara]

I took me 8-10 years to realize that yes... you need to be patient and consistent for 5-8-10y! :)

[@Tygrus]

Whoa!

[@SomeSeriousWeight]

Not going to lie I would pay so much for David Boffa to read The weightlifters guide to the snatch.

[@xyrussalii]

It’s no secret. Open heavy.

[@z1poc]

The last scene could have been avoided

[@XRP_NP]

Steps for success. Step 1. Find super attractive women Step 2. Get them strong Step 3. Make Instagram accounts

[@z1poc]

Yes and then medal will start to rain right? He is not talking about social media success ! 😂

[@keendiy7209]

Could have left the stereotype talk out tbh