OLY
Olympic Weightlifting is becoming more and more popular. These movements are extremely beneficial in developing power, speed, balance and flexibility with the athletes.
However, teaching these movements correctly is a long, time consuming process. As coaches and athletes, we have been exposed to many different styles when visiting other facilities, local competitions and during our training, where these movements are performed.
There is always one thing that stands out from the rest: Many athletes struggle to maintain the correct positions throughout the lift, which results in poor execution.
Because of this, athletes are prolonging the rate at which they should effectively progress in their technique and risk potential injury.
Hard Work Breeds Success
The answer to this problem is clearly a larger emphasis on technique. However, since the Olympic lifts are very technical movements, it is only possible to really improve through training with a dedicated and experienced coach.
It was out of this need to provide experienced coaching to the Central Jersey weightlifting community that we started the Flemington Barbell Club.