Topic: News: USAW Sports Performance Course

[Chris Ⓐ LeRoux]

Dear Coaches and Trainers:

USA Weightlifting Sports Performance Coach Certification will be held Oct 12-14, 2007 at Mesa Community College.

The Sports Performance Coaching Coarse focuses on the utilization and application of the Olympic Lifts and their assistance exercises, plyometrics and medicine ball training to the realm of sport specific training, power development and injury prevention.

This course is a result of the tremendous popularity of our USA Weightlifting Club Coach Course. The Club Coach Course is designed primarily as our initial course in the coaching development of USA Weightlifting coaches. The Sports Performance Coach Course developed from this course because the use of the Olympic lifts as well as other explosive training methods has become more widespread in the realm of athletic development and personal training. There has clearly been an increased need for a means of gaining a working knowledge of these training methods and how to apply them in an appropriate fashion.

In developing this course we have combined the time-proven teaching and training methodology from the sport of Weightlifting along with the practical experience of some of the most innovative and successful professionals from the field of athletic development and professional sports training. Our hands-on approach to learning insures that the participant gains a more thorough understanding of the complexities and the difficulties of learning these movements. This experience along with the knowledge gained into the areas of program design and practical considerations provide the participant with a comprehensive foundation to successfully implement this training into the programs of their athletes or clients.

USA Weightlifting would like to make this course available to strength and conditioning professionals at all levels, fitness instructors, physical education personnel and any other interested parties. The course length is fifteen hours and will run from Friday afternoon until Sunday afternoon. The course will have an assessment where the candidate will be evaluated on their practical ability to demonstrate lifts and assistance exercises and their ability to coach colleagues during the course of the practical sessions. There will also be a written examination covering the lecture material given throughout the weekend. Upon passing the written examination and practical portion a certificate will be mailed to the candidate.
 
For more information please contact Course Instructor Joe Micela 480-813-5477 or Course Director Mark Peterson 480-461-7911

You may register online at www.usaweightlifting.org . 

Materials for this course include a manual, a video and once the course is passed, an official USA Weightlifting Sports Performance Coach polo shirt.
Contact the National Office at 719-866-4508 for more information

Joe Micela
Team Arizona Weightlifting President
Owner/Director
Performance One Advanced Sports Training, Inc.

www.performanceone.net
1555 S. Gilbert Rd #107
Mesa, Arizona 85204
480-813-5477