Iron Edge Olympic Lifting Fundamentals

Manual reading objectives:

• Introduce and define the sport of Olympic weightlifting, including training methodology, different types of equipment, training environments and lifting technique.
• Explore the two weightlifting specific lifts in detail, the Snatch and the Clean and Jerk, as well as the rules of competition and the unique history of this rich and powerful sport.
• Explore the methods surrounding safe weightlifting and training practice, as well as the best and most relevant ways to introduce this training to clients from all populations.
• Discover how to create an optimal training space, that is safe and hazard free, for participating and training in weightlifting specific activities.
• Discover the unique benefits that weightlifting has to offer, and what this means to clients’ goals in terms of strength, power, speed, metabolic conditioning, coordination, motor skill acquisition, mobility and flexibility.
• Understand how, statistically, Olympic weightlifting is one of the safest sports around, and how this style of lifting can benefit the general and the broader population.
• Learn and teach the optimal Olympic weightlifting progressions, for safely advancing beginners into competent Olympic lifters.
• Learn the best and most effective strategies for introducing Olympic weightlifting fundamentals into various training programs, safely and effectively.
• Provide basic screening and assessment protocols for assessing and qualifying clients’ readiness for participating in Olympic weightlifting exercises and Olympic weightlifting training programs.
• Learn effective movement preparation strategies for readying and mobilising clients to the rigours and stresses of this style of resistance training.
• Discover how to identify and correct common faults and technical problems, with safe and easy exercise regression and specific coaching cues.
• Explore the fundamentals of Weightlifting programming, and how to create simple planning strategies for continual and progressive overload for clients.
• Learn how to periodise Olympic weightlifting exercises and the key fundamentals of Olympic lifting into either Weightlifting specific programs, or when programming an integrated model.
• To provide an avenue for ongoing support, so participants can follow up on questions and queries outside of the workshop, and to help them to continue to evolve as a Personal Trainer.