Complete Olympic Lifting Handbook - Softcover

Wil Fleming

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692458263 ISBN 13: 9780692458266

Publisher: Athletes Acceleration, 2015

Synopsis

The Olympic lifts are broken down on how to perform and teach them. Coach Wil Fleming also goes into detail with common errors and corrections of the Olympic lifts, showing you the best way to optimally execute the lifts. Best of all, Coach Fleming gives you sample programs so you know exactly how to train and get the most out of the Olympic lifts.

The Complete Olympic Lifting Handbook covers in-depth:
- - Mobility for the Olympics
- - Common Technical Elements of the Snatch and Clean
- - The Squat
- - The Snatch
- - The Clean
- - The Jerk
- - Programming for the Olympic Lifts
- - Sample Programs

If you are looking for techniques, cues and corrections to build athleticism and enhance explosiveness, then you need to checkout the Complete Olympic Lifting Handbook.

It's a great resource not only for yourself to become a stronger Olympic lifting coach (and help develop more explosive athletes) in the weightroom but also for your staff so they can improve their knowledge and skills to this technical and important training tool. The Complete Olympic Lifting Handbook is the ultimate Olympic lifting guide for coaches, trainers and athletes.

About this title

About the Author:

Wil Fleming is the Owner of Force Fitness and Performance and Athletic Revolution Bloomington, in Bloomington, Indiana. Force Fitness is one of the most successful training facilities in the Midwest with nearly 300 clients, 75 athletes earning Division I scholarships, and nearly 90 athletes moving on to compete at the NCAA Division I, II, and III levels. Wil is a national-level Olympic weightlifter (finishing 8th in the 2013 and 2014 National Championships) despite being one of the few competitors in his 30s. He is the coach of dozens of successful weightlifters ages 11-40. He is also one of the nation s youngest national-level weightlifting coaches through USAW. In addition to being a business owner, Fleming is an accompliched author. He wrote the International Conditioning Association s Olympic Lifts Instructor Course manual as well as the Speed and Agility chapter in IYCA Essentials of High School Strength and Conditioning text along with noted performance experts like Eric Cressey and Mike Robertson. He also authored and filmed the Core Lifts program intended to help Athletic Revolution franchisees learn and refine their coaching technique regarding fundamental weight lifting skills and his work also appears on T-Nation, STACK, and a number of other media outlets. In 2013, he also teamed up with Coach Dos Remedios on the successful product Power Evolution, detailing their go-to power development exercises for athletes and clients. Wil is a sought after speaker on the topics of power development, speed, and strength training for athletes. He has spoken at the PaleoF(x) (2014), IYCA International Summit (2010-14), the Midwest Performance Enhancement Seminar (2011), Building Better Athletes Seminar (2012), and the College of the Canyons Strength and Conditioning Clinic (2012). Wil has presented over a dozen Olympic lifting seminars at gyms around the country and in Europe in the past three years. Prior to being a business owner, he was an Olympic Trials participant, an all-American athlete, and the school record holder at Indiana University as a hammer thrower. Wil was a resident athlete at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs for Olympic weightlifting after winning a Jr. National Championship in the same sport.

About this edition

• Publisher: Athletes Acceleration
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0692458263
• ISBN 13: 9780692458266
• Binding: Paperback