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10/23/2026

She’s the FIRST person to represent the Faroe Islands 🇫🇴 internationally in Weightlifting


This took place at the 2022 Nordics. She went 6 for 6, Sn**ching 81 kg and Clean & Jerking 100 kg.

At the time, was filming a short documentary about a Danish lifter preparing and attending this competition.

Had the idea of trying out a new content format where I’d interview reflections of lifters post-competition, giving context behind the lifts, their training leading up, and how they felt about their performance.

Couldn’t figure out how this footage should be formatted, but at this point, posting it and not being happy with it is better than not posting it at all.

Sat on a lot of unposted footage for quite a while, so thought I’d start with some of the earliest unposted clips.

Would you like to see more content like this? Let us know in the comments.

10/22/2026

Norbert Schemansky performing some of the heaviest Split Sn**ches ever recorded on film.
1963 World Championships

Up until the late 1950s/early 1960s, Splitting was the orthodox style on Sn**ches. Some athletes would Power, and some athletes started to Squat Sn**ch but it was still considered novel.
The brothers Pete and Jim George would forever change history proving it to be an effective style but that’s a story for another time.

Norbert is shown in Split Sn**ching 160 kg and missing one at 168 kg. The last time the all-time world record in the Sn**ch was set using the Split Style was by this man in 1962, Sn**ching 164 kg.
Unfortunately I haven’t come across the 164 kg video, but this is still fascinating to see.

Would anyone be interested in hearing more of the history behind the Squat Sn**ch? Let us know in the comments!

Credit to Gerlof Holkema’s YouTube channel for the footage!
NOTE: The Squat Sn**ch is a term that has existed for over a century. For most, it is now redundant and one can simply say ‘Sn**ch’ to understand that a full/squat style Sn**ch is meant, but in our opinion, it makes sense to still use the term to distinguish it from a Split or Power Sn**ch.

10/21/2026

What am I referring to?

Jumping back in a Sn**ch or Clean.

Would NEVER teach someone to intentionally jump back, but now consider it an idiosyncrasy.

What do YOU think? Athletes and coaches, would love to hear your opinion.

Will share my personal opinion and reasoning after this post.
Athlete: 🇦🇹
Gym: .fit.vienna

10/20/2026

Last lifts before heading to China 🇨🇳 for worlds
87 kg Sn**ch
116 kg Jerk
91 kg Block Sn**ch

After returning from Albania, Paula Zikowsky 🐼 🇦🇹 got training sessions in the last couple of days before heading off to Worlds.

She might not be fully peaked for this one, but it’s still remarkable how well she’s moving heavier percentages while not being entirely ‘in shape’. But a lifter can’t be peaked for every single competition, especially if they’re multi-sport athletes.

Proud of her growth and excited to see her step back on the platform.
📍 Zone.fit

“An essential circumstance, on which much depends, is the individuality of training for each sportsman. There is a commo...
10/12/2026

“An essential circumstance, on which much depends, is the individuality of training for each sportsman.

There is a common situation identically true for all: in order to have strong legs, many squats are required, and to have strong arms-many presses... But how to squat and how to press - this is strictly an individual matter. It depends on the nervous system, the state of health, the body structure and the muscles.

For one person it is sufficient to squat once a week, for another it is necessary to do them twice or even more. Therefore it is inadmissible nearsighted to mimic the training of “authorities”. - Yuri Vlasov

TLDR; different people respond to different training methods. Very valuable to see the training approach of successful athletes and coaches, but mimicking their training won’t yield the same results.

Johnny Coffee was firm in this too; everyone’s different, and will lift and train a little bit differently. Find what works for you!

10/09/2026

87 kg Sn**ch
Side Angle
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Paula had missed this weight a few times. We took the weight back down and worked back up, and the second go around she was able to hit it on her first try.

Her back was the tell; as soon as I saw how set her back stayed when the bar came off the floor, I knew she’d likely make it.

Johnny Coffee would often allow his athletes to drop the weight back down and build back up if the warmup or working sets were off or resulted in misses, and from him he was taught this from the Bulgarian coach Angel Spassov. I wonder who Spassov learned from?

📍 .fit.vienna

10 years ago today, my best friend John Coffee had a stroke. There’s a peculiar duality to how time has passed.It feels ...
10/01/2026

10 years ago today, my best friend John Coffee had a stroke. There’s a peculiar duality to how time has passed.

It feels like just yesterday, and I feel like just the same person, while simultaneously feeling like a lifetime ago, where I don’t recognize myself at all.

Being with him and his team was the first time I ever felt like I belonged. While it was gone far too soon, I still consider myself so lucky to have met him and the people as part of his gym. Some people are never lucky enough to experience something that special and dear, but I was. I’m forever grateful.

For the sake of survival and figuring out what life is really about, I forced myself out and have really started to see the rest of the world. Were it not for losing him, I’d have been perfectly content settling in Marietta, Georgia for the rest of my life. 

I’ve gotten to learn so much about life, and that the world is much bigger than Coffee’s Gym, or Marietta, Georgia, or the United States. That there is much more to life than Weightlifting. There’s a whole world out there that’s waiting to be explored.

I’m excited to learn what all is out there. I’m excited to grow and become a better person. And when the time is right, I’m excited to fulfill the promise I made to John the last time we spoke before he passed.

I sure do miss John, and wish I could share everything that I’ve learned and experienced the last years. I can’t help but feel there were many more journeys we were meant to take. But another 100 years likely wouldn’t have felt enough.

But I also can’t help but think he’d be proud of the journey I’ve embarked on. 

I thought 10 years would be plenty of time to figure life out, but maybe you never truly figure it all out?

When I woke up this morning, I put on Spotify and the first song I played was Starman off of David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.

That CD was the last thing John ever gave me before his stroke. A nice little reminder from John. I’ll never forget him.

Thank you all for supporting this page; I’ve gotten to see incredible places, have incredible experiences, and meet incredible people all because of you. I hope you’ll stick around.

- Edward

09/30/2026

A couple of years back, .prep 🐝 had a biking accident that required surgery on her knee.

She’s made lots of progress, and some movements have progressed quicker than others. She mentioned that the lifts have given her a bit of difficulty to come back to; particularly that the catch would feel unstable.

When observing the lifts from the front, notice that she favors catching the lift with her hips shifted to the uninjured leg. 

The following rep, she focused on landing with her hips more ‘square’ and even, and she immediately felt more stable.

She’s well along in her rehab and the way a person moves and trains in the middle of a rehab protocol can look a bit different (when coming back to a bilateral movement after an injury like this, it’s a bit more permissible to favor one side, especially in the early stages of rehab), so just know there’s been a bit of distance between the injury and now!

She’s in well-capable hands, just an outside observation I saw on her lifts. Excited to see her continue to progress!
📍.fit.vienna 🇦🇹

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09/28/2026

89 kg Sn**ch
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Starting to approach heavier weights as Worlds gets closer. Paula is still getting used to pulling from the floor again, so this was an encouraging lift to see at the early stages of this training cycle.

Are you a competitive athlete looking for a training program? DM us for more info!

📍 .fit.vienna 🇦🇹

09/24/2026

There’s still time to join us on this training cycle!

The September Segments training cycle began this week.

The primary exercise selection will consist of segments and partial movements of the full lifts, coupled with a variety of assistance and remedial exercises.

When you join you also get to have your lifts analyzed on our livestream once every two weeks!

You also get linked up to a community of athletes following the same program.

What’s included:

◾️3 Training Days per week
◾️Video Analysis Livestream 2x/month
◾️Community of athletes following the program

Want to try a free week? Go to the link in our bio.

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