Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches

conscious effort must be made to execute each repetition as precisely as possible for the given stage of development. In other words, sloppiness, laziness, inattentiveness and impatience need to be avoided as much as possible.

it’s helpful conceptually to consider knee extension (or leg drive against the floor) to be responsible primarily for elevation of the barbell, and hip extension to be responsible for the speed of the barbell.

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

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.

an athlete rising up onto the balls of the foot during a lift does not necessarily indicate a forward shift of the athlete’s center of mass or a change of balance in any direction.

in order to move into position under the barbell to receive it, the lifter must actively and aggressively continue pulling against the barbell with the pressure of the feet against the platform eliminated or reduced; and the transition between these phases of the lift must be as rapid as possible—in

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.

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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