Olympic Style Weightlifting

The most exciting way to workout - period. Olympic lifting maximizes your time and effort in achieving your fitness goals. Our olympic weightlifting athletes compete locally, nationally, and internationally. See Team Praxis. You too, could become skilled enough to compete, use the lifts to increase your performance in a specific sport, or simply to get in great shape.

Olympic lifting: The Olympic lifts consist of 2 full-body lifts: the snatch and the clean and jerk. Performing these lifts requires balance, flexibility, symmetry, speed, strength and perfect timing. Anyone can learn and perform these lifts with the correct instruction. They are called the Olympic lifts because these 2 lifts comprise the Olympic sport of weightlifting.

Using only these 2 lifts (NO CARDIO) in training is a fun and effective way to reach your goals. Because these lifts are so explosive and require full body movements, you raise your metabolism not just for an hour after your workout is finished, but for up to 24 hours. You are adding lean muscle, burning fat, and achieving your fitness goals extremely fast. The lifts are interesting, exciting and challenging, and you find yourself looking forward to your next workout rather than forcing yourself to get through another cardio session or do another set of bicep curls. With this type of training you see fast results. Quick success, enjoyment, measurable progress, combined with the need for constant technical improvements makes olympic lifting not just a motivating new way to train, but addictive.

Olympic lifting is also a world-wide competitive sport. There are approximately 5,000 competitive olympic weightlifters in America compared to China's 5 million. The sport is open and eager to welcome new athletes. Team Praxis, a Wasatch-front based team lead by certified Olympic weightlifting coach Mike Carroll, trains at the Praxis Olympic Weightlifting Center in Sandy Utah. Team Praxis consists of men and women, boys and girls of all ages and skill level. Our athletes compete at state, national and international events. Members of Team Praxis include state record holders, state champions, and is the home of 2 time master's national champion and current master's world champion, Debbie Millet.

Olympic weightlifting is an individual sport which provides people of all ages the self confidence, strength, flexibility and life-long tools such as goal setting, a strong work ethic, and self discipline to conquer any challenge life will bring.

Any child, no matter how small, large, or coordination level, can become involved in a team, develop a strong work ethic, and take advantage of the self confidence that is the sport of Olympic weightlifting.