2018 The Art of Coaching Weightlifting Fort Worth TX

The Art of Coaching Weightlifting is a Coaches' Seminar and Clinic is a 14 hour course over 2 plus days. It is not just  another course in progressions but comprehensive lessons in coaching and teaching methodology to give you the tools to be a better coach now. The course covers everything  from teaching beginners and movement assessment to a comparative of the most common progressions taught today. Furthermore,  we review how to integrate them into a program for teaching beginners and beyond. This course is not an argument in semantics; it IS a course that provides complete conceptual understanding of the lifts with full explanations of how and why.  It includes a section on error identification and which, how, and why exercises are used for correction of different errors. It concludes with a lecture and discussion  on Bulgarian versus Russian programming.

The Art of Coaching Weightlifting/ Tentative Course Schedule

Friday

 6:00pm-6:30pm               Introduction and Course Overview

6:30pm-8:30pm               Lecture: General Concepts and Oly Science for Coaches;  Top Down vs Bottom Up

Saturday

 10am-1:00pm                 Practical: Teaching the Novice; Snatch Progression Comparison and Review

 1:00pm-2:00pm              Lunch Break

 2:00pm-4:00pm               Practical: The Pause Method for Snatch; Clean and Jerk Progression Comparison; The                                          Pause Method for C&J

 4:00pm-4:45pm               Lecture Topics: Common Mistakes; Bottom Up Analysis

 4:45pm-6:00pm               Training Session: Snatch and Clean and Jerk  

Sunday

 10:00am -1:00pm             Practical: Snatch Exercises and their Effects; Clean and Jerk Exercises and their                                                   Effects; Other Assistant Exercises

 1:00pm-2:00pm              Lunch Break

 2:00pm-2:30pm              Practical: Other Assistant Exercises

2:30pm-3:00pm               Lecture: Basic Training Principle of USSR vs Bulgaria

 3pm-4pm                        Closing Comments, and Open Q&A

The 14 hour Olympic weightlifting course has been developed and will be instructed by former two-time national champion, two-time Olympic Festival champion, 5 time world team member  and former record holder in both  snatch and clean and jerk , Ursula Garza Papandrea. She was an elite international athlete who has distinguished herself as a coach in 2003 by becoming the first and only woman to attain USA Weightlifting’s highest coaching level, Senior International Coach Level 5; one of about 25 such coaches in the USA.  Extensive national and international experience in competitive weightlifting as an athlete since 1987 and 20+ years of coaching experience at national and international levels plus a Bachelor’s Degree in Exercise and Sports Science, and a career as a Professor at Austin Community College since 1994, Ursula is a consummate professional with unparalleled experience and expertise. She revived her career to become Master’s national champion and best lifter in 2009, national champion again in 2010, and once more breaking national and unoffical world records in 2013. She became CrossFit Level 1 certified in 2010 and served as part of the CrossFit Olympic Lifting Certification Staff 2009-2015, as well as teaching the USAW Level 1 and 2 Sports Performance courses. She is currently the head coach for the 2014 Men's Team National Champions, Texas Barbell Club. She has served on the USAW Board of Directors as a Technical Director since 2009 and is currently the Chair of the Board. She additionally serves as the USA Weightlifting delegate to the International Weightlifting Federation and was recently elected as the first female Vice President of the International Weightlifting Federation.