Name: Deirdre Lenzsch Age: 18 Height/Weight Class: 5’4″ 75kg Current City: Colorado Springs Gym: Olympic Training Center Occupation: Full Time Athlete PRs: 94 snatch; 112 Cl&J Would you share a little about your athletic background and how you found Olympic Weightlifting? I played on a boys’ football…
2x National Champion 2014 Pan Am Champion Best Snatch: 182 Best CJ: 221 Best Total 400 Can you tell us a little about your athletic background and how you got into weightlifting? I started weightlifting when I was 12, originally…
The moment I ran across Sage’s online blog, I was smitten: a weightlifting expert and a competitive CrossFitter with a writer’s flair. Though Sage comes from the legendary Burgener family, she speaks with a powerfully independent voice, and — as her…
Could you start by telling us a little about your weightlifting career – as both a competitor and a coach? (please, brag) At 14 years old, I started weight training with my older brother at a nearby YMCA. When I went…
Your family name is so well-known in weightlifting circles that it’s basically synonymous with world-class coaching. I imagine that, growing up around weightlifting, you might have had a very different relationship with the sport than those of us that stumbled…
NFL strength and conditioning Coach Brett Nenaber generously took time out of his busy schedule to speak with me about working with such elite athletes. He also discusses his own background in weightlifting, and his more recent experience as a…
Marie Finamore is the Director of Sports Medicine at East Valley CrossFit and the founder and sole proprietor of Have Thumbs, Will Travel®, a Scottsdale based wellness private practice. In her decades of experience, Marie has become an internationally renowned athletic…
When I read Matt Foreman’s article, “We All Go to the Same Therapist,” I knew I wanted to write a response. I shouldn’t reduce Matt’s argument to one sentence. In fact, you should all click the link right now and…
When August and I started this blog, we spoke a lot about our frustrations with the amount of ungrounded, impractical “advice” floating around the internet. I find this particularly true about nutrition, for which there is a new trend, new…