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 ...

She has won nearly every accolade the sport has to offer, but Tokyo Olympics silver-medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu remains in relentless pursuit of one elusive milestone — the 90kg snatch lift.

Thirty years ago, the only time you’d see a guy doing Olympic lifts was, well, at the Olympics. Nowadays, many of my clients tell me they want to do the barbell snatch and the barbell clean and jerk ...