Weightlifting: Foundations For Performance

Learn about weightlifting and key principles to improve athletic performance

What you'll learn

Weightlifting and Olympic lifts with demonstrations

Variations of common lifts

Principles of strength training to improve human and athletic performance

Principle of post activation potentiation to improve athletic performance

Requirements

No prerequisites are required for this course

Description

Weightlifting: Foundations for Performance is designed to be just that —  a class on how weightlifting can be used in performance training. This course will educate students on using weightlifting as a way to improve both human and athletic performance. This course involves using various lifts and different methods in a way that allows the improvements to translate to performance on the playing field or game surface. The course thoughtfully includes lecture, videos, demonstrations, coaching points, and alternatives to help viewers design a program that will elevate aspects of sporting performance. Although there is much overlap between different weightlifting methods, athletes do not need to train like body builders, cross-fitters, or power lifters to maximize their performance output. This course covers important elements of weightlifting and performance and further explores how this mode of weightlifting can differ from other modes of weight-training.   Every detail of your training matters when you want to gain a competitive advantage over your competition and the key to running faster, jumping higher, and hitting harder begins with the foundation that is set and built upon in the weight room. Join this course to explore how we can use popular weightlifting methods and adapt them to gain an edge in performance.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Introduction

Lecture 2 Weightlifting for Performance Enhancement

Lecture 3 Repetition Ranges

Lecture 4 Power vs. Strength

Lecture 5 Progressing Between Sets

Lecture 6 Warm Up

Lecture 7 Post Activation Potentiation

Section 2: Warm Up

Lecture 8 Warm Up Detailed w/ Demonstration

Lecture 9 Warm Up Alternate View

Lecture 10 Warm Up Demo: Upper Extremity

Section 3: Deadlift

Lecture 11 Deadlift

Lecture 12 Deadlift: Front View

Lecture 13 Deadlift Variation: RDL

Lecture 14 Deadlift Variation: Dumbbell/Suitcase Deadlift

Lecture 15 Deadlift Variation: Single Leg RDL

Section 4: Squat

Lecture 16 Squat

Lecture 17 Squat: Front View

Lecture 18 Squat Variation: Safety Squat

Lecture 19 Safety Squat: Side View

Lecture 20 Squat: Post Activation Potentiation

Lecture 21 Squat Variation: Box Squats

Lecture 22 Squat Variation: Pin Squats

Lecture 23 Box/Pin Squat: Post Activation Potentiation

Lecture 24 Squat Variation: Rear Leg Elevated Squat

Lecture 25 Rear Leg Elevated Squat: Front View

Lecture 26 Rear Leg Elevated Squat: Post Activation Potentiation

Lecture 27 Squat Variation: Single Leg Squat

Lecture 28 Single Leg Squat: Post Activation Potentiation

Section 5: Clean

Lecture 29 Intro to Clean

Lecture 30 Hang Clean

Lecture 31 Clean Variation: Hang Extension

Lecture 32 Clean Variation: Rack Pull

Lecture 33 Clean: Post Activation Potentiation

Section 6: Bench Press

Lecture 34 Bench Press

Lecture 35 Bench Press: Front View

Lecture 36 Bench Press: Post Activation Potentiation

Lecture 37 Bench Press Variation: Pin Press

Lecture 38 Pin Press: Front View

Section 7: Lunge

Lecture 39 Lunge

Lecture 40 Lunge: Alternate View

Lecture 41 Lunge: Variations

Lecture 42 Lunge: Post Activation Potentiation

Section 8: Wrap Up

Lecture 43 Wrap Up

This course is designed for any individual or health professional interested in learning ways to use weightlifting as a means to improve athletic performance