The Casuals Guide To Olympic Weightlifting

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Big thanks to Nick Jones for the section at 07:13
The History of Doping in Weightlifting: • History of Doping In W...
Coach ZT lays down the whole truth that everybody needs to know when learning about weightlifting, from history, to drugs and the aesthetic of the sport - Weightlifting is complex!
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:46 - The Name
02:05 - The History
04:09 - PED Use in Weightlifting
07:13 - Nick Jones' Anti Doping
07:50 - Corruption in Weightlifting
09:57 - The Beauty of Weightlifting

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@kameronfadden6210 10 ай бұрын

Wii resort background is goated

@deficharliegosseTK 10 ай бұрын

Yeah! Lol

@randyyyyyyy6977 10 ай бұрын

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

@spongechameleon6940 10 ай бұрын

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

@MarkarthCityGuard 9 ай бұрын

Better be careful Nintendo doesn't sue him

@dustypirate28 4 ай бұрын

Wii Sports Resort background, and Bioshock background music.

@emcarpenter5206 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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

@stephaniemckoy4996 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

Why not real weightlifting, like real tennis?

@marcomendez5010 10 ай бұрын

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

@allrounder7003 8 ай бұрын

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

@sandrost4243 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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

@SebaRoz123 9 ай бұрын

@@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 6 ай бұрын

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

@mattcooper8403 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

And indeed, POETRY IN MOTIONN

@danhill7889 10 ай бұрын

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.

@tiffanymckoy2748 10 ай бұрын

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

@federz666 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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

@bigengine74 10 ай бұрын

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

@tiffanymckoy2748 10 ай бұрын

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

@footba11fan41ife 5 ай бұрын

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

@khangton676 10 ай бұрын

"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!

@TheTempestSync 10 ай бұрын

Make Weightlifting Great Again!

@LuLzezRoflcopter 10 ай бұрын

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

@jimpericaud6739 23 күн бұрын

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.

@mjcaple 10 ай бұрын

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

@maceworks_ 10 ай бұрын

Same lol

@menkaragamble8175 10 ай бұрын

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

@maceworks_ 10 ай бұрын

Great video, brother! 🙏🏻🙌🏻

@JamieoftheNorth 10 ай бұрын

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

@jamesguacamole3246 10 ай бұрын

nice vid ZT - thanks for the casual summary

@lololFloro 2 ай бұрын

Excellent video. Thank you for making it

@lalampen 10 ай бұрын

Love this video - thank you!

@claudio.robles 10 ай бұрын

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

@jasonmurray4714 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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

@jasonmurray4714 10 ай бұрын

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

@josuemorenocorral2349 6 ай бұрын

Thank you man. That was badass

@northern4112 10 ай бұрын

Great job with this 🙌💯

@RobinMuirhead 10 ай бұрын

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

@treybroussard4616 10 ай бұрын

This was super interesting. Great video.

@patrickedwards5804 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

😂👍🏻

@pak06292 6 ай бұрын

this videos are always great🙌

@andrewhernandez9674 10 ай бұрын

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

@ego1rock917 10 ай бұрын

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

@SebaRoz123 9 ай бұрын

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

@samarthur1847 9 ай бұрын

Great video, thank you 😊

@PIMPsupremacy 10 ай бұрын

Sick video. Always wanted to try this sport but it’s a tough one to get into. Gotta find the right gym and the right people and the right coach and right drive. Incredible sport though.

@Mr.Chapmann 10 ай бұрын

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

@robschilke 10 ай бұрын

Solid video Z

@marymissmary 10 ай бұрын

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

@lorenzogiani7190 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

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

@achaarpickler 10 ай бұрын

One had to applaud Zack's efforts

@jacobellis9419 10 ай бұрын

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.

@bryceehret8149 4 ай бұрын

I just got into the sport and I love it

@xyrussalii 10 ай бұрын

Awesome work!

@QQyoko 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

Yeah pretty much lol

@espenstoro 10 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

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

@ryantrotter9561 8 ай бұрын

great work

@viktorbodnar7738 10 ай бұрын

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!

@xXJeReMiAhXx99 7 ай бұрын

These backgrounds are legendary

@zerog4261 10 ай бұрын

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

@MrRkaperak 10 ай бұрын

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.

@AngelaNess11 10 ай бұрын

Great video!

@poxx1525 10 ай бұрын

The background is legendary

@miguel30_ 10 ай бұрын

Loved it!!!

@ProfessorTurnipAlpha 10 ай бұрын

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

@jackmanhireiii 9 ай бұрын

This was really cool

@Pullinginspiration 10 ай бұрын

Great video💪💪

@scar310cpt 10 ай бұрын

Amazing vid!!! 🫡🫡🫡🫡

@zwryy7622 10 ай бұрын

Great vid

@dennismitchell5992 10 ай бұрын

Solid Video

@cascade2093 Ай бұрын

Weightlifting is an absolute goat when it comes to functionality!

@yankorusev 10 ай бұрын

Great video

@maxwhiteman3049 10 ай бұрын

Austin nailed the music on this, Bioshock backing is choice

@pierreblumm 10 ай бұрын

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.

@williamhunt1811 10 ай бұрын

Good vid man

@K4R3N 10 ай бұрын

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

@jona697 9 күн бұрын

Cry

@ibfreely8952 10 ай бұрын

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

@BigDaddyBostin 10 ай бұрын

Good one

@pateHNBTA 10 ай бұрын

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.

@santodominico7235 9 ай бұрын

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.

@dan.franco 10 ай бұрын

It's beautiful!!!

@Karaage_ 10 ай бұрын

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

@triwithlaura3138 10 ай бұрын

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

@matthewzito6130 9 ай бұрын

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.

@edst8600 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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

@traaaaan 10 ай бұрын

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

@JohnSmith-hv6qk 8 ай бұрын

Same in Czechia

@zanderrose Ай бұрын

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

@gelj065 9 ай бұрын

GOAT BACKGROUND

@noahcarswell4731 5 ай бұрын

Casey Rocket getting interviewed at the beginning haha

@danielfrancis3254 10 ай бұрын

Well said

@BodaciousBanana69 10 ай бұрын

Gotta say i love the wii background.

@bg_x6558 10 ай бұрын

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.

@khristophsatori8826 10 ай бұрын

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

@maakamakana7007 2 ай бұрын

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

@Swisskies 10 ай бұрын

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

@ix_9_ix 10 ай бұрын

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

@IGeorge94 10 ай бұрын

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

@MinhVu-ef8qh 10 ай бұрын

Holy mother of vertical jumps 😮 @10:29

@deficharliegosseTK 10 ай бұрын

You get the like 👍 for the Clarence meet footy

@Wojson 10 ай бұрын

Lovely❤

@rundown132 10 ай бұрын

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

@ulf. 10 ай бұрын

people who compete in strength sports (e.g. weightlifting, powerlifting, streetlifting, strongman, etc.) know the difference. people who visit a spa or jump in a pool for fun might know nothing about swimming disciplines (e.g. 50m freestyle vs. triathlon ocean swim). stand up paddling during holidays will not make some understand rowing sports. The same is with fitness gyms. the only way to educate people the subtle differences between strength sports is to encourage average gym goers to take part in strength sports events, i.e. with referees/judges and competitors.

@johnescobar9951 5 ай бұрын

I love Weightliting❤❤

@Fi2h3r 10 ай бұрын

Good shit

@HashimAlmadaniauthor 10 ай бұрын

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

@drip369 10 ай бұрын

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

@Natureandthings83-ps4qp 10 ай бұрын

I like the no contact.

@mr.andrew_andrew 10 ай бұрын

DEUS EX MUSIC! Zach, did you use play the OG Deus Ex?

@marragonn 9 ай бұрын

Bioshock music in the background 👍

@marcitarian 10 ай бұрын

great🤘

@arthurvictor6704 3 ай бұрын

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?

@jorgg1382 9 ай бұрын

Slapping the TTGL theme at the end was the right choice

@sorayaimperial 10 ай бұрын

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!

@longhaulblue 3 ай бұрын

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.

@hiscik1362 10 ай бұрын

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

@Mr.Ciobanu 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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.