Olympic Weightlifting, Jim Schmitz

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Olympic Lifting for Adults – Can I Start Olympic Lifting as a Grownup? – Olympic Lifting Tips

In Olympic Style Weightlifting for Strength, Health, Physique, Fitness and Sport, weightlifting coach Jim Schmitz discusses the benefits of Olympic style weightlifting. There’s been a resurgence of enthusiasm for Olympic lifting in recent years, primarily due to Crossfit, and no one is more pleased to see this than Jim. Beginners who want to hear about Olympic lifting, and old-timers who want to hear about their O-lifting heroes will all appreciate this lecture.

“Balance is the ability not to fall over when you get out of position when performing physical activities. Balance is something you will develop by doing Olympic-style weightlifting. The key is only the heavy weight overhead, being steady and motionless. That takes practice. That takes teaching the muscles which muscles have to do the job to hold that weight overhead. Balance is another very important factor in weightlifting that is of benefit that you’ll develop.” ~Jim Schmitz

TOPIC MARKERS

• Different Lifting Styles (3:25)
• Twenty Reasons to Olympic Lift (5:05)
• Explosiveness (6:35)
• Competitiveness (11:35)
• Muscularity & Physique (16:10)
• Injury Prevention (20:05)
• Health (23:20)
• Bruce Wilhelm (26:30)
• Valery Brumel (31:20)
• It’s Fun! (33:40)
• Getting Started (36:10)
• Program 1 Variations (39:20)
• Program 2 Variations (44:45)

LECTURER BIO

Jim Schmitz has been an Olympic weightlifting coach since 1968, and during that time coached 10 Olympians. He’s written a book and developed a DVD on weightliting, and does coaching clinics and seminars. You can connect with Jim to learn more about Olympic weightlifting via his website at physiquemagnifique.com.