The Clean and Jerk is a two-part Olympic weightlifting movement done with power and attention to technique. It consists of lifting a weighted barbell from the floor to your shoulders (the Clean), then ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images The jerk is a technical exercise that involves explosively lifting a weight ...

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It wasn’t all that long ago, and it didn’t take that much. Now, Schuylkill Valley junior Hayley Reichardt is a weightlifting champion. Reichardt, 16, broke the American Youth and Juniors record for ...

This week in Large Men Lifting Ungodly Amounts of Weight (as we mortals stare, legs, arms, backs, creaking just from watching): the heaviest clean and jerk ever recorded on film. The Large Man, ...

Weightlifting has been a staple of competition since humans developed the cognitive ability to look at each other's glutes, as the echoes of a softly grunted "pathetic" bounced against cave walls, ...

(AP) LONDON - North Korea's Om Yun Chol joined an exclusive group of weightlifters Sunday who have lifted three times their body weight in the clean and jerk - and in the process won the gold in the ...

Gabrielle “Gabby” Reece, 46, is no longer a pro volleyball player but she keeps herself in killer shape with one total-body exercise. Gabrielle Reece shares the total-body exercise that keeps her in ...

MICHAEL REAMS stood a few inches in front of my barbell. My job was to lift the bar from the floor over my head into a squat — without hitting him. I quaked a little inside. But Reams is not someone ...

A scary moment occurred at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto over the weekend when Venezuelan weightlifter Genesis Rodriguez Gomez collapsed after a failed clean-and-jerk attempt in the 53-kg ...

The United States’ long wait for an Olympic men’s weightlifting medalist is over after four decades, as Marietta, Georgia’s Hampton Morris lifted his way to bronze in the men’s 61kg (134 lbs.) final.

INCHEON South Korea (Reuters) - Chinese weightlifter Zhou Lulu set a clean and jerk world record of 192 kilograms to win gold in the women's +75kg category at the Asian Games on Friday. Zhou added 2kg ...