The fundamental goal of training is to stimulate the body in order to make it adapt to the mechanical work and loading it is subjected to. There are two methods that are readily used in weightlifting training: the maximum effort method and the repeated effort method. Both methods must be employed to achieve high results …
Training as a Multi-Year Process
Training for weightlifting, like any sport, is a long term endeavor. This is why many plans are formulated around an Olympic cycle (four years) and why many high school sports separate freshman athletes from junior and varsity athletes. The goal is to build the athlete up to peak performance at the most important competition of …
Mock Competitions
Competitions and training vary greatly. In training you are in your native gym (home field advantage), you can lift at your own pace, you are with training partners (who may be in different weight categories), you lift on “your” platform, with “your” barbell, and many other variables to list that are likely never to happen …
Importance of Submaximal Weights
Despite that this sport’s main objective is to find a one rep max snatch and clean & jerk in competition, we cannot train with maximal and near maximal loads all the time. Even on a day where we are lifting near maximal and maximal weights we should not rush our way up to those attempts. …
Training Principles
All weightlifters snatch, clean, jerk, squat, pull, and press to some degree or another. The coach and the training environment are the only proprietary ingredients to a training system. This is why I publish my team’s program online. The magic happens at practice because I can dictate individual exercise changes and weight selection based off what …
What I Believe
My methods and beliefs have changed numerous times over the last 15 years as I’ve experimented with all varieties of methods and “techniques.” I have learned the good and the bad from high frequency and low frequency training, linear progression, maxing out day in and day out, squatting every day, ass to grass squats, parallel …
In My Experience…
It took me a long time to figure out just what I wanted to make this website about and importantly what the first post ought to be about. I try my best as a coach to preface most everything that I say with “in my experience” so as to not speak in absolutes. All I …
Manhattan Barbell 