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.

effort should be made continually to establish and improve the kind of rapport necessary to support the athlete’s technical progress.

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 needs to be understood very clearly that there is a simple order of priorities throughout the learning process: Position, movement, speed, load.

Learning movement patterns is ultimately and unavoidably a matter of quality repetition, feedback, and effort.

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

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

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.

being a technician is very different from being a coach, which is a teacher in all the best senses of the word, and one who understands the whys and hows in a way that allows them to truly coach—not just run people through the motions.