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    How To Coach Olympic Weightlifting: 7 Steps to Coaching Olympic Weightlifting
    How To Coach Olympic Weightlifting: 7 Steps to Coaching Olympic Weightlifting
    How To Coach Olympic Weightlifting: 7 Steps to Coaching Olympic Weightlifting
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    How To Coach Olympic Weightlifting: 7 Steps to Coaching Olympic Weightlifting

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    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 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 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, 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHowExpert
    Release dateJun 9, 2017
    ISBN9781370603541
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      How To Coach Olympic Weightlifting - HowExpert

      How to Coach Olympic Weightlifting

      6 Steps to Coaching Olympic Weightlifting

      HowExpert Press & Liam Rodgers

      Copyright HowExpert.com

      Smashwords Edition

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      Although the author and publisher have made every effort to ensure that the information in this book was correct at press time, the author and publisher do not assume and hereby disclaim any liability to any party for any loss, damage, or disruption caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause.

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: Know your Role as a Coach

      Chapter 2: General Physical Preparation

      Chapter 3: Improving Strength

      Chapter 4: The Basics of Technique

      Chapter 5: Programming

      Chapter 6: Coaching People

      Chapter 7: Closing Remarks Additional Lessons

      About the Expert

      Recommended Resources

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      Introduction

      Olympic weightlifting (or, simply, weightlifting) is a simple sport. It is the competition of two major disciplines:

      1. The snatch where the athlete lifts the bar from the floor to overhead in one movement, and

      2. The clean and jerk where the athlete lifts the bar from the floor to his/her shoulders and then from his/her shoulders to overhead.

      The difficulty of weightlifting does not come from the number of difficult movements that must be learned, but from the intense subtlety and complexity of mastering the snatch and the clean and jerk. Both are incredibly complicated and unforgiving barbell movements performed with huge weights. Your goal as a coach is to develop the necessary strength and technique in athletes to allow them to lift the most weight possible in both of these disciplines.

      In a competition, the combined weight lifted is referred to as the athlete’s total. An athlete who performs a 100-kg snatch and a 130-kg clean and jerk, for example, would have a 230-kg total. This is how athletes are ranked during competition, during which they have three attempts at each lift to post the highest possible weight. The athlete with the highest total is the winner of the competition.

      Weightlifting has seen a huge increase in popularity in the past decade, which has been attributed to a variety of factors, including the rise of CrossFit, social media outlets, and the hard work of grassroots organizations in the sport. What is most interesting, however, is what has happened because of this increase in popularity. More participation in the sport has caused an increased demand for knowledge, expertise, and coaching in the field of weightlifting and strength training. There are now more people looking to be coached than ever before and, unfortunately, this has led to more inexperienced coaches attempting to satisfy this demand. This has diluted the quality of coaching and the rigour of coaching qualification standards.

      Coaching is not a simple task. It is a complicated relationship with athletes requiring a deep knowledge of the sport and communication skills to get the best results out of each individual. Psychologist Abraham Maslow once said that to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. This is a fair analogy for the current state of coaching. Would-be coaches look for the ‘best’ way to coach. It’s ironic that these corner-cutting solutions, from well-intentioned people, are reducing the quality of coaching they offer and the overall quality of weightlifting coaching. This is only compounded by the amount of questionable and outright false information that is in circulation regarding strength training, S&C coaching, and Olympic weightlifting more specifically.

      It’s not uncommon to hear that new athletes are struggling to understand the technical lifts or have a reduced confidence in

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