Weightlifting for Beginners

by Dan Kent, Mihai Ivan

Overview

Starting weightlifting is easier than you might think. This book will teach you everything you need to know to get started, learn the lifts and follow a beginners programme.

Mobility testing and improvement

Step by step guides to learn the snatch, clean and jerk

Assistance exercises - squats, presses, pulls, deadlifts and more

How to train as a weightlifter

Nutrition

How to find the right coach (and what to do if you can't)

Beginners training programmes

The book contains 260 pages of quality content, including over 160 illustrations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781999668808
Publisher:	Powerful Ideas Software Limited
Publication date:	04/25/2018
Pages:	260
Sales rank:	324,370
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

PART 1 - GET STARTED

1. Introduction 3

2. What You Need 9

PART 2 - MOBILITY

3. Mobility Requirements 25

4. Testing Your Mobility 29

5. Improving Your Mobility 37

PART 3 - TECHNIQUE

6. Technique Foundations 55

7. The Snatch 61

8. The Clean 83

9. The Jerk 101

PART 4 - STRENGTH

10. Squats 117

11. Presses 129

12. Deadlifts 135

13. Core Strength and Stability 145

PART 5 - POWER

14. Power Variations 155

15. Pulls 161

16. Plyometrics 167

PART 6 - DISCIPLINE

17.Weightlifting Training 175

18. Nutrition 193

19. Developing as a Lifter 203

Appendix One - Glossary 209

Appendix Two - Further Information 215

Appendix Three - Beginners Programmes 219

Index 233