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OUR MISSION

At the Weightlifting Workshop, our mission, and our passion, is to help you become the lifter you want to be. Whether you want to get stronger, to learn how to lift, to master the power clean for football, to excel in the lifting events of CrossFit, or to become a World Champion weightlifter, we can, and want to, be your guide.

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OUR STORY

Our founder, Artie Drechsler, tells our special story. “I started in the sport of Weightlifting as an athlete, nearly 60 years ago, and managed to set three Junior World Records in Weightlifting during my career (including a coveted record in the total).  In the meantime, I was learning to coach others, having had my first national level coaching experience at the 1968 Senior Nationals, and my first senior international level coaching experience at the 1978 World Championships.

All during my career as an athlete and coach, I dreamed of creating a gym where athletes could train for weightlifting with expert guidance and equipment unparalleled in terms of quality and technical innovation. I wanted a gym that enabled elite athletes to achieve their very best, while at the same time warmly welcomed anyone who wanted to learn weightlifting – whether they wanted to compete, or to augment their performance in sports, such as football and CrossFit. I’m proud to say that with the development of the Weightlifting Workshop, we’ve achieved that goal.”

THE CRITICAL QUESTION YOU SHOULD ASK ANY COACH YOU CONSIDER WORKING WITH

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Artie (lower right) at the 1978 World Championships, coaching in the first  lifter he brought to the Sr. World level, Jerry Hannan. Jerry would go on to win a US Nationals, and make the US Olympic Team in 1980.

OUR UNIQUE FACILITY AND EQUIPMENT

The building where it all happens, devoted exclusively to teaching weightlifting to those at all levels, and to training lifters for all levels of competition.

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Abtin demonstrates the Overhead Squat in a safety rack of our design – which let’s you take the bar from the rack with your arms fully locked and return it that way, while catching a miss.

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We believe that our facility and equipment are the best available anywhere, for several reasons. First, every feature of our facility and equipment is focused on improving performance in Olympic-style Weightlifting. For example, we have eight full-sized training platforms and four cages designed specifically for Weightlifting, so you can do snatches, cleans and jerks within them from various heights, and blocks that enable you to lift the bar from below the knee to jerk box height. In addition, we have myriad propriety feedback devices that can help you to understand how you are doing on each rep you perform, increasing learning dramatically. For more details on our facility and equipment, please see our coaching page.

Testimonials

AN ACCLAIMED BOOK AND
VIDEO BY OUR HEAD COACH

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WEIGHTLIFTING ENCYCLOPEDIA BOOK

Most acclaimed and comprehensive book on becoming an accomplished weightlifter ever written – more than 550 pages.

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WEIGHTLIFTING ENCYCLOPEDIA VIDEO COMPANION

Most acclaimed and comprehensive book on becoming an accomplished weightlifter ever written – more than 550 pages.

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