Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches

Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches is the ultimate resource for anyone looking to master the sport of weightlifting.

With over 150 pages of new and improved content, this third edition includes revised chapters, new chapters, and expanded tables and diagrams.

The book presents a complete progression for athletes and coaches, covering foundational elements such as breath control and trunk stabilization, squatting, balance and weight distribution, warming-up, individual variation; working to complete learning and teaching progressions for the snatch, clean and jerk; covering training program design extensively, including assessment for recruiting and new lifters, and 16 sample training programs.

The book also covers technical error correction, supplemental exercises, nutrition, bodyweight manipulation, and mobility, as well as a thorough section on competition to prepare both lifters and coaches.

Don't miss out on this comprehensive guide that has been called "Simply the best book available on Olympic weightlifting."