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How To Coach Olympic Weightlifting
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How To Coach Olympic Weightlifting

7 Steps to Coaching Olympic Weightlifting
Created byHowExpert
Last updated 8/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • How To Coach Olympic Weightlifting

Course content

1 section • 9 lectures • 1h 31m total length

  • Welcome0:14

    Master seven steps to coaching Olympic weightlifting, and learn how to coach athletes effectively today.

  • Part 1 - Introduction4:07

    Explore the essentials of coaching Olympic weightlifting, focusing on the snatch and the clean and jerk. Build deep coaching knowledge and communication to guide athletes with quality.

  • Part 2 - What is the Role of the Coach and Who Should Be One?8:04

    Develop as a weightlifting coach by mastering technical understanding, the coach's eye, and practical coaching; learn to guide athletes with personal insight, patience, and clear communication.

  • Part 3 - Coaching Essentials: General Physical Preparation19:45

    Prioritizes general physical preparation to build movement quality and general athletic skills before weightlifting, using a triage approach to progress to moving under load with precision and power.

  • Part 4 - Coaching Essentials: Strength8:44

    Master strength and technique in weightlifting by understanding general and specific strength, mobility and conditioning, and coaching sequences that optimize snatch and clean and jerk performance.

  • Part 5 - Coaching Essentials: The Basics of Technique12:15

    Coaches establish the basic technique, provide real-time feedback, and guide beginners through snatch, clean, and jerk setups, pulls, and transitions for a solid foundation.

  • Part 6 - Coaching Essentials: Programming16:50

    Learn how to design weightlifting programming from general to specific, using periodization, progression, and careful exercise selection to optimize performance, technique, and peak readiness for competition.

  • Part 7 - Coaching People19:50

    Develop coaching people in Olympic weightlifting by mastering clear communication, understanding motivation, and negotiating realistic goals, while adapting to each athlete's needs and constraints.

  • Part 8 - Closing Remarks1:57

    Develop your weightlifting coaching foundations through continual learning, humility, and attention to detail. Balance biomechanics, exercise physiology, sport science, and organisation while avoiding misinformation.

Requirements

  • None

Description

This short book is a response to the increased popularity of Olympic weightlifting and the problems that have come with it: the quality of coaching in the sport has been diluted in the English-speaking world by increased demand. This book with course aims to provide a basic description of how to coach weightlifting effectively, based on some very simple principles and approaches that should be developed. This will also help the new athlete seeking a coach understand the why of her/his training as well as the how.

This will develop existing weightlifters into coaches with a very solid understanding of the basics, or allow those who coach other sports, or strength and conditioning, to improve their skillset.

This book with course will cover the main areas of coaching for Olympic weightlifting, and how they should be applied to provide the best coaching service and the best athlete success:

• The basics of weightlifting and coaching

• The pre-requisites of a good coach

• Dealing with General Physical Preparation

• Strength: its role and developing it

• Technique: on-the-ground coaching

• Programming: developing the athlete

• Working with people: the role of interpersonal skills in coaching

By the end of this book with course, anyone should be able to understand the very basics of what it takes to be an effective coach – with suggested readings to continue the coaching education process – and be set on the right path to achieving their potential in the field.

Who this course is for:

  • Olympic Weightlifting

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