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.

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

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.

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

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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.

Described in the simplest possible terms, all three lifts employ the generation of force against the ground to first elevate and accelerate the barbell upward, then use force against the inertia of the elevated barbell to accelerate the athlete downward and into position to receive the bar.

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.