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Advanced Lifting Course

Fitnance's Advanced Lifting Course is aimed at Personal Trainers and Sports Coaches wanting to increase their knowledge of Olympic Lifting Techniques.

Olympic Lifting provides many benefits to clients including: Power development, flexibility, gross-movement co-ordination, development of motor skills and body awareness, plus workout efficiency.

This course is a CEC point course, run to specifically up skill personal trainers in Olympic lifting and the teaching of it.

Coaching Methodology

• Olympic v Power lifting
• Bodybuilding v Sports Training
• Analogy of lifting shoe for transfer of power and soft surface v hard surface for plyometrics (defeat purpose, injuries)
• Number is irrelevant
• Activation patterns
• Needs analysis (SWOT analysis of sport matched against individual needs) mma Functional pathway between 2
• Principles of power
• Progressive resistance principles

Practical

• Scale someone into power development (progression)
• Specificity and salience to sport i.e. football
• GPP (General) to SPP (Specific). Similarly Functional to Specific. Functional Strength/Power then move to Specific Strength/Power. Gates for Progression in each. (Continuum) Need for Group and Individual scaling. (Remedial or not remedial)
• Functional
• Scaling for complexity of movement (Take home) Continuums/Progressions/Development . Scaling to Maximize lift (Box Jumps, Vertical Jumps, Thruster, Presses, Twist, Squat, Pull up, Core)
• Periodizing Power
• Exercises to develop technique and power
• Lifting techniques
• Progressive development of technique
• Teach athletes to exert max force by maintaining stability and balance throughout all execution phases of various exercises
• Understand principles of good technique
• Understand and appreciate the biomechanical principles of good technique
• Develop an ability to assess an athletes' technique
• Identify and correct athletes individual technique
• Identify and correct common faults in technique
• Provide appropriate feedback
• Teach correction exercises
• Maximize power development

Lifts covered in the course include:

• the snatch
• the clean and jerk.

Call Fitnance for more details on this Workshop.

For more information on the relevance of Olympic Lifting for Personal Trainers and Sports Coaches, click here.