Learn the fundamentals of the Olympic sport of Weightlifting.

This blended course will take you through the essential skills and technical knowledge needed to coach the lifts, assistance exercises, and much more.

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What you will Learn ?

  • The technical skills of the Snatch, Clean and Jerk
  • Assistance Exercises
  • Athlete preparation
  • Fundamentals of athlete assessment and screening
  • Coaching and communication strategies
  • Principles of coaching children
  • Roles and responsibilities of a coach
  • Safe practices for managing the training area
  • Biomechanics and physical characteristics of weightlifting
  • Effective warm ups
  • Effective recovery strategies

Course Requirements

  • All participants must be 18 years of age or older to complete this level 1 course.
  • Completion of all electronic and in person examinations

Assessment 

  • 25% | Logbook of coaching practice, covering 6 sessions over a period of 6-8 weeks
  • 25% | Practical in person examination of applied coaching practice
  • 20% | Multiple choice examination on level 1 modules
  • 15% | Video competency examination, learner will identify technical principles and or faults
  • 10% | Critical self reflection of personal coaching practice
  • 5%  | Learners evaluation of the course (full marks given for all feedback provided)

Course Description

Part of the Coaching Development Programme for Ireland (CDPI), this course supports the first step in delivering and coaching to effectively teach the Olympic weightlifting technical movements and their variants. The Level 1 is an accredited sport Ireland recognised course, and will provide you with the foundations of coaching practices, the technical aspects of the snatch, clean and jerk, as well as access to the field of play, such as warm up areas during competitions upon successful completion of vetting and safeguarding training.

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Curriculum

    • WIL1- 01 Safety Within Weightlifting Unlimited
    • WIL1- 02 Biomechanics within Weightlifting Unlimited
    • WIL1- 03 History of Weightlifting Unlimited
    • WIL1- 04 – Athlete Screening and Creating Functional Foundations Unlimited
    • WIL1- 01 Safety Within Weightlifting Unlimited
    • WIL1- 06 – Designing an Effective Warm-up Unlimited
    • WIL1- 07 – Fundamentals of Lift Preparation Unlimited
    • WIL1- 08 – Exercises The Clean and variations Unlimited
    • WIL1- 09 – Exercises The Snatch and variations Unlimited
    • WIL1- 10 – Exercises The Jerk and variations Unlimited
    • WIL1- 11 – Exercises Assistance and Preparatory Exercises Unlimited
    • WIL1- 12 Long Term Athlete Development Unlimited
    • WIL1- 13 – Periodisation and Programming Unlimited
    • WIL1- 14 – Anti-Doping Unlimited

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