Olympic Weightlifting for Sports

Yes, the book may be called a pamphlet. But it is a powerful and useful one at that, it is easily understandable and accessible, and makes the point that most athletes from non-weightlifting sports can benefit much from taking the olympic lifts into their exercise plans. Furthermore, the book has enough detail to stand alone as an instruction guide to athletes and coaches with limited time to spend on the olympic lifts. This is not a book for weightlifters - it is not meant to be - it is a book for athletes and coaches in other sports. It's a two-hour read, which gives you the rationale for including the lifts, instructions on how to do the lifts, a plan for technical progression between the different lift varieties, and two sample programmes. I have never opened a book that let me learn so much in just two hours. For that, it fully deserves its 5 stars. And it doesn't hurt that amazon.com beat their delivery estimate with 28 days!

I have purchased both editions of Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches. They are wonderful for learning and coaching the lifts. They have everything you need to coach the lifts. What I liked about this book is that it assumes that not everyone who wants to do the lifts wants to be a competitive lifter. Many people just need to learn how to properly get the bar from the ground to the shoulders or overhead in the most efficient manner so they can translate it to their sport. I have plenty of athletes who come into my gym without any lifting experience. I can now use this guide for progressions, as well as encourage them to lift properly without putting themselves in less than ideal positions for the sake of completing the lift. Greg also points out the importance of the lifts, safety involved with them, as well as the technical difference for athletic training vs competitive weightlifting. As with his other books, Greg has great instruction, pictures, and detail that other books do not contain. I recommend this book to any athlete that wants to include the lifts into their program but unsure of how to go about introducing them. I also suggest that every coach should get this book so they can understand so much more about the lifts.

Greg Everetts book on weightlifting for sports is well done. The writing is clear and concise. He breaks the lift down into easily managed portions and creates a reliable template to build on. The photography in this book is excellent. The pictures illustrating the push down under the bar are well done and demonstrate a difficult concept very well. With the resurgence of popularity of Olympic style weightlifting, this book is an excellent resource. It is small enough to fit in your gym bag and easy to read . I only wish I could just hand one to every person I see in the gym flailing around with a bar, thinking they are "Oly' Liftin'"

My son is a big kid who plays tough, strong-guy sports like football and rugby. Coaches in those sports like to see big numbers in several specific lifts: squat, bench press, and power clean. Most important among these is the power clean, because it requires strength in all the important body parts, as well as quickness and coordination that the other two lifts do not. I purchased "Olympic Weightlifting for Sports" precisely for the instruction it provides in the power clean. Olympic weightlifting seems to be mostly about technique. I imagine those guys look down on the power clean as one-half of a military-style clean and jerk, but for us it was very difficult, until I read Coach Everett's book. (I take a big part in my son's gym training by force of circumstances.) Everett's text and photos portray proper technique for the clean and jerk (and other lifts) exceptionally well. I had sought help from many gym rats, including three "personal trainers," all of whom seem dedicated and skilled and were most helpful, yet Everett taught us the necessary moves for the proper power clean. Reading this book led me to "You Tube" exhibitions of Olympic lifts of the clean and jerk, etc., as well as power cleans. (Those Russians are nutz.) Altogether, my son, who is coming off an injury and was "re-establishing" himself in the weight room after a long lay-off, added 100 pounds to his power clean in just 6 weeks, using our new-found techniques. (That is an unusual circumstance, and no beginning lifter should try or expect to realize that gain! Please don't try!) My point is that proper technique can add a lot. Our use of "You Tube" clearly illustrated the effect of Everett's static text. I was amazed by what I saw, and nobody in our gym uses that proper technique for the "catch." A short book that has made a great difference in my son's performance.

Short but complete. Very high quality, complete, useful and reliable information. Good black and white photos for every point. Zero filler. Every sentence is short, clear and to the point. Every point is explained. Very helpful is the list of bullet points. I wrote the bullet points in my iphone and review after and during each workout. It also breaks down each lift into parts which can be practiced and mastered separately. The complex olympic lifts are presented as step by step parts which are gradually combined until you have the complete lift. I can see myself rereading this book for a long time to come. No book or DVD can replace a human coach. I learned the lifts in Crossfit training and I'm using this book to review the many points of good technique. Crossfit training moved very quickly and having this book as a reference is very helpful to me. If you want to learn the lifts on your own (not recommended), I think that watching youtube videos together with this book might be pretty good.

Gain the strength and power benefits of weightlifting without being wrapped up in the technical nuances! Greg Everett does a great job teaching the technical movements of weightlifting by breaking down the movements into manageable steps; and explaining the bio mechanics behind each individual movement to provide the reader with a holistic understanding of the movement.

Il libro da degli spunti interessanti per il miglioramento della tecnica anche per chi è un atleta già di medio livello. Per i principianti è utile per partire, anche se sarebbe sempre meglio un coach che vi segue per dare una buona base di partenza. Sicuramente le informazioni sono scritte da chi pratica lo sport e non da improvvisati. Si legge con facilità anche per chi non è proprio fluente in inglese.

The book offers little to no detail as far as the lifts are concerned. Any instructional video available online on the same is 10 times more useful. It is nothing more than a pocket size key points reminder. Highly disappointed. The book is highly overrated in the online circles.

Weightlifting in its purist form, is a sport that requires a lot of time and patience to learn and refine. It's not be rushed or spent bastardly chasing arbitrary PRs or best times while losing proper positions and biomechanics. That said, as a strength coach, you might want to reconsider teaching your athletes or clients the full and true versions of the clean and jerk and snatch lifts. Again, entire lives are dedicated by weightlifters refining and crafting their game. If your athlete/client lacks the mobility or time in a 1hr session to learn the full versions, you're wasting time and energy, when you could be instructing and coaching other methods of power development. This book, I found provided priceless info for any coach wanting to teach variants of these lifts to anyone not looking to compete in the sport of WL (weightlifting). For most wanting to develop more power in a sport/in life other than WL - the power clean, power snatch, their pull variations and jump squats and jerks may be all they need. This book does a superb job of outlining that goal. Great work, Greg Everett.

Guten Einblick in das Olympische Gewichtheben in Bezug auf andere Sportarten. Genau richtig um Umsetzen und ähnliches in das Training anderer Sportler einzubinden