Topic: New Olympic Weightlifting Book

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Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches
Greg Everett

Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches is the most comprehensive and practical book available on learning, teaching and performing the Olympic lifts for athletes of all disciplines. Progressing logically from start to finish, the book covers every aspect of learning and training with both the simplicity necessary for the novice and the complexity desired by the more advanced. Contains more than 50 supplemental exercises and over 600 photographs.
(300 pages)

    * Learning Progressions
    * Supplemental Exercises
    * Fault Correction
    * Flexibility Training
    * Nutrition & Bodyweight
    * Program Design
    * Recovery Management
    * Equipment & Facility
    * Competition



"Simply the best book available on Olympic weightlifting. It took me years to acquire the information included in this book. Greg has ... compiled in one book the current accepted views and practices of today's elite lifters and coaches."
—Don Weideman, Vice President - Pacific Weightlifting Association

“Without a doubt the best book on the market today about Olympic-style weightlifting. If I were teaching a college class, this would be the book I would have all my students buy.”
-Mike Burgener, USA Weightlifting senior international coach

“I have purchased dozens of books over the past fifteen years on topics ranging from martial arts to elements of gymnastics and weightlifting. Most contain some useful information; however, few make the yearly cut when I weed through my bookshelf to make room for new material. Why? I can't look back at these books, year after year and find something new every time I open the page. This is not the case with Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches. Everett’s book is unique in that it is concise, yet thorough. Anyone from a raw beginner to the elite level competitor will find something new in this book every time they open its pages. Everett’s strengths are his attention to detail and intelligent, accessible progressions. You will love this book, and it will never end up at the used bookstore.”
—Robb Wolf, NorCal Strength & Conditioning

Find it here: http://www.performancemenu.com/zen/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4&products_id=155

[Chris Betancourt]

 

Just ordered; coming from reading the Sportivny Press books, this should be a good read. 300 pages!

[Chris Betancourt]

Okay guys, finished reading it. I would say it is for people who are brand new to the sport or for coaches looking to adopt an OL program to teach. It is written like a high school textbook in the sense that it is a very easy read with lots of picture examples (not like the incredibly technical Sportivny Press books) It has a Fault Correction with just about every mistake a lifter will do as well as methods to correct it; by far the best section in the entire book. I would tell people to buy it just for that section if they coach or self-coach themselves. Most of the other information is pretty basic stuff. The book is a very good primer for learning the lifts and gives a simple explanation for structuring routines and workouts.

If someone is looking for a more in depth study of how to create a long-term routine, I think 'Training of the Weightlifter' by R.A. Roman as well as 'A System of Multi-Year Training in Weightlifting' by A.S. Medvedyev go much deeper into the process and analyze it to the extreme. These books, though, are very tough to read.