Being taught the Olympic lifts incorrectly by amateurs

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chrisjenkins		Being taught the Olympic lifts incorrectly by amateurs	07-11-2013 @ 10:27
enter the welsh dragon Member 738, 2297 posts SQ 372.5, BP 237.5, DL 355 965.0 kgs @ 90kgs Eq	Post Edited: 07.11.2013 @ 10:31 AM by chrisjenkins It takes years to master the Olympic lifts, yet there seems to be a lot of fitness groups offering fitness challenges with the Olympic lifts, and coaching classes with the lifts themselves. They seem to under take some day course and hey presto they are qualified to teach the general public how to perform these very technical lifts. Does this piss anybody else off?

ystradboy79		...	07-11-2013 @ 10:38
Chris 'The Magician' Melling Member 1443, 978 posts SQ 270, BP 180, DL 320 770.0 kgs @ 135kgs UnEq

unit94		...	07-11-2013 @ 11:04
what is everyone's fran time? Member 3986, 10446 posts SQ 340, BP 200, DL 400 940.0 kgs @ 129kgs Eq	Should try going to a crossfit gym!

polkovnikostin		...	07-11-2013 @ 11:08
Member 4803, 410 posts	chrisjenkins said:It takes years to master the Olympic lifts, yet there seems to be a lot of fitness groups offering fitness challenges with the Olympic lifts, and coaching classes with the lifts themselves. They seem to under take some day course and hey presto they are qualified to teach the general public how to perform these very technical lifts. Does this piss anybody else off? It's all about the Benjamins.

IrishMarc		...	07-11-2013 @ 11:09
no really Irish Member 1196, 5908 posts SQ 312, BP 230, DL 320 862.0 kgs @ 114kgs UnEq	Post Edited: 07.11.2013 @ 11:10 AM by IrishMarc There's twos ways of looking at it 1 - you can appreciate the technical difficulty and be annoyed at people doing it wrong and incorrectly 2 - you appreciate it's difficult and are just happy that more people are taking part in it. I used to subscribe to 1 but I am 100% in the 2 camp now. There are good football coaches and their are bad footballs coaches but there are also a lot of football coaches. There are bad weightlifting coaches and there are good weightlifting coaches but there are not a lot of weightlifting coaches.

slimsim		...	07-11-2013 @ 11:16
My asshole is not watertight. Member 2926, 6050 posts SQ 217.5, BP 107.5, DL 225 550.0 kgs @ 86kgs UnEq	IrishMarc said:There's twos ways of looking at it 1 - you can appreciate the technical difficulty and be annoyed at people doing it wrong and incorrectly 2 - you appreciate it's difficult and are just happy that more people are taking part in it. I used to subscribe to 1 but I am 100% in the 2 camp now. There are good football coaches and their are bad footballs coaches but there are also a lot of football coaches. There are bad weightlifting coaches and there are good weightlifting coaches but there are not a lot of weightlifting coaches. x 2 As the overall number of weightlifting coaches increases you would hope that a percentage of those would become "good" coaches, thereby increasing the pool of decent coaching available. Those who are st at coaching and try and bullst their way through it and never try and improve, well that's another story. Those types do piss me off.

dave_rogerson		Not sure really...	07-11-2013 @ 12:42
Member 4046, 590 posts	I think it depends on who is being taught. If its someone who just wants to have a go and do something different and the coach has a grasp of the fundamentals and are not likely to hurt the person, then its probably OK, but if the people being coached actually want to do the lifts properly consistently as part of their training and maybe want to do a comp, then yes, I would be a bit pissed off with it. For me, weightlifting has been a monster ego-check and made me go back to square one and address numerous problems that I got away with for years. Weightlifting however showed all my issues instantly. So, because of this and a few other things I've lost a ton of training time and made so many silly, silly mistakes. I'd really hate for anyone else to do what I did.

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