Olympic Weightlifting for Sports

From the author of what has been called the best book on Olympic weightlifting, Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches, comes Olympic Weightlifting for Sports. This book focuses on athletes and coaches outside of the competitive weightlifting world to present a method of teaching the Olympic lifts and their variants simply, safely and effectively to all types of athletes. Also includes information on program design and flexibility training to prepare athletes to perform the lifts.

Table of Contents:

The Fundamentals

Evaluation

Teaching Progressions

The Squat

Hang Power Clean

Power Clean

Push Press

Power Jerk

Split Jerk

Hang Power Snatch

Power Snatch

Clean

Snatch

Lowering the Barbell

Program Design

Flexibility