Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches

It’s the experience of the life and the culture that matters, not the competitive results. There are too many subtleties and intangibles that can only be learned through this experience that build the foundation for the understanding and communication required of a successful coach.

In short, athletes are more likely to respond as desired when told explicitly what to do instead of being told what not to do and left to figure out corrections on their own.

It’s the knowledge and understanding of relevant scientific principles, the experience of implementation of training methodologies, the accurate assessment of disparate athletes and their varying needs, the prediction of responses to training, the proper and productive social interaction with a wide array of individuals, the psychological support a

effort should be made continually to establish and improve the kind of rapport necessary to support the athlete’s technical progress.

Learning movement patterns is ultimately and unavoidably a matter of quality repetition, feedback, and effort.

The greater the athlete’s understanding of the guiding principles of the movement’s technique, the better a framework he or she will have within which to make sense of what he or she feels.

there is truly no right or wrong in weightlifting: there is effective or ineffective, and these things are not universal among athletes.

Technique is the medium through which strength is expressed—the lifts are limited, then, by the weakest part of the equation.

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