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About Danny Lehr

I'm Danny Lehr. I coach Olympic weightlifting, I own Excel Health & Fitness in Manteca, California, and I co-founded Caffeine and Kilos. My main site is dannylehr.com.

I competed in Olympic weightlifting from 2010 to 2019. I went fifth at the 2012 American Open and seventh at the 2013 National Championships in the 94kg class. In 2019 I won the Masters World Cup at M35 89kg with a 266 total. I trained at California Strength under Glenn Pendlay and then Dave Spitz. I'm USA Weightlifting Sports Performance certified, and a CrossFit Level 3 Trainer.

What The Lifting Fix is

Over a decade ago I started putting out one free weightlifting technique video a week. One fault, one fix, usually under two minutes. I did it every single week for fifty-four straight weeks without missing one, and kept going after that. I gave all of them away, because the thing that fixes a lift shouldn't sit behind a paywall. Sixty-four of those episodes are here, filed by the fault they fix rather than by the date they went out.

Along the way a lot of good people came on camera to help: Aaron Horschig of Squat University, Zach Long, Ursula Papandrea, Noah Ohlsen, Matt Bruce, Tom Kallas and others. Their episodes are collected here.

If you don't know which fix you need, the Self Lifting Fix asks you a few questions and points you at it. There's also a one-page snatch pull checklist and a list of the best free weightlifting resources that I keep current.

Why it's free

Because it was always free. It went out free every week for a year and a half, and putting it behind an email form now would be a worse version of what it was. There's no signup on this site and there isn't going to be one.

There is one thing I charge for. It's a professionally filmed course that teaches the snatch, clean and jerk the same way I've taught them in weightlifting seminars: the method I used to take rooms full of people from never having touched a barbell to completing both lifts, and the one I learned coaching under Glenn Pendlay and at California Strength.

Olympians have demonstrated it for me on seminar floors. And it works with nothing: I once taught Kenny Leverich, a CrossFit Games competitor, to snatch with a broomstick under the porch lights outside his condo. No platform, no plates. When the order is right, the equipment stops mattering.

It goes in order, the way a seminar does. Positions first, then how you move through them, then the full lifts, then the skills and drills that make them better. And here's what no other weightlifting course online does: it doesn't stop once you can lift. It keeps going into corrections, so when something goes wrong you have the fix for it instead of a video telling you how it's supposed to look.

That's the full course, one time, no subscription. Everything else on this site is free.

What I do now

I still coach, but most of my week goes to the gym and to 1:1 performance coaching for business owners. If you found this site because of weightlifting, that probably isn't for you, and that's fine. If you want to know what else I'm working on, it's all at dannylehr.com.

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