Where do I start my Olympic lifting journey?

Everyone wants to be like Mike! As they say.
I think this video will be super beneficial for beginners who can lose their way early on in their training.
The snatch and clean and jerk can be difficult to learn, but with the right mindset and base, you will find they aren't that difficult and are quite fun to learn!
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[@Yupppi]

There's like two different starts and roads even in the "how do I start" category. The almost exclusively discussed is "where do I start when I want to be a first priority weightlifter and dedicate my time and resources to training for the most progress" and then there's the "where do I start when I want to learn the lifts and progress, but I don't plan to become a weightlifter, I learn it to support my main sport, I don't have 1,5 hours 4x a week and recovering from that". Like what's quite common in programming is that fully dedicated format even for a beginner, even though the intensity from the weights is less than if you had relatively high PRs, and it's supplemented with a full day of core work as accessory to build up the work capacity and using the leftover resources. Which is of course quite detrimental if you train something else as first priority like 3x a week, you will not perform in your main thing and you are hard pressed on recovery with that lifting program. You might want to choose weightlifting over powerlifting as secondary just because the loads are smaller and weightlifting is so beneficial to athleticism with physical literacy, speed and power development. And in general weightlifting is a fantastic training method for athletes. There's very few resources for "weightlifting as secondary tool" like minimal dose program, like you might find in strength training programs these days after the study by Dr. Pak for powerlifting, and which is much more common in hypertrophy training for average joes who have a busy life and limited recovery resources. This is not a criticism at the video or weightlifting programs in general (hiring any coach would solve this right away), it's more like voicing out a target audience and group of population that's available to weightlifting content that is not perhaps acknowledged well. And the beginner content is often offering some free snack to people to bite into and get excited, train for a while and realise they really like it and built consistency to training that, it can work for more casual people as well who are into weightlifting but can't dedicate much time to it. You could also easily tweak a basic program for less intensity as an experienced athlete or coach, but the problem with beginners is that they don't know their capacity yet and don't have any idea what is the crucial core in the weightlifting program they can't touch and where they can remove intensity while still improving technique and progressing, just slower. And there's plenty of students and other people who don't have the economy to just hire a coach or join a club to try and have something else taking the first priority, they want to have a touch on the thing and see if they want to invest in it, so I think it would be valuable to have that snack bite like strength and hypertrophy programs (which are good at marking what's necessary and what you can skip if you can't commit or handle as much). A lot of beginners just want to know what they do on monday, wednesday and friday if they can commit to all those days for let's say an hour. Weightlifting is a difficult and demanding sport of course, but weightlifting as secondary for the benefits is somewhat untouched territory outside athlete coaches and the community is a bit focused on committing fully to the sport. I've only seen John Jayne show his weightlifting program as a judoka, but he's an Olympic level athlete and was in his gym focused phase so it's not very relevant, it was more serious than your casual weightlifter's program.

[@gabrieljackson1524]

Very high quality

[@ChrisAckland0]

Thank you 🙏

[@somedude84961]

So what would you consider an intermediate training program? Great video

[@ChrisAckland0]

Thanks for the comment, I’d generally classify the stages as Beginner - learning how to train, it is better to take a conservative approach and frequency can be low for strength lifts and as long as the quality is there they’ll get stronger. With the oly lifts, lifting for skill rather than weight here. Intermediate: This is where the structure needs to have purpose for most things in the program. A few sets of squats won’t cut it so learning to figure out what the athlete needs volume wise matters. Squatting could be 1-3x per week. The oly lifts weights will matter more. Unlike a beginner where just having good technique and getting stronger they’ll improve, in the intermediate stages you need to learn the skill of going heavy more so here. Hope that helps 😃