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The book: Tamas Feher’s Olympic Weightlifting

ISBN: 9630601397
307pp
Paperback
Publisher: Tamas Strengthsport Libri General Partnership
Copyright 2006
Regular Price: $34 (U.S. dollars)

Excerpts of the book

Fehér has published several texts on weightlifting, one of which, a 300-page comprehensive manual for coaches provides information regarding anatomy and physiology, analysis of weightlifting, training exercises, weightlifting techniques, preparation systems for intermediate and advanced athletes, and how to prepare athletes of both sexes at different ages, etc.

 

 The main chapters

I. Basic concepts in training methods

Training. Conditional and coordination abilities. Fitness. Adaptation. Sport adaptation. Sport form. Fatigue, etc.

II. Basic anatomical and muscle physiological knowledge

The skeletal system . T he joint system. The muscle system. The energy sources of muscle function. Composition of muscle fibre. The most important muscle groups in weightlifting. Other important muscle groups, etc.

III. Training principles in weightlifting

The principle of protection and development of health and personality. The principle of increasing training load . The principle of uninterrupted training load. The principle of considering individual characteristic. The principle of the priority of adequate stimuli. The principle of performance timing requirement. The principle of planning-controlling-modification requirement, etc.

IV. The applied exercises of the weightlifting training

The major and sub-phases of competition exercises, special and general exercises of snatch and C & J, special supplementary exercises, their functions, biomechanical analysis, application, etc.

V. Power development of weightlifting

Maximal strength. Speed strength. Strength endurance. Maximal strength endurance. Intensity ranges of power development and appropriate repetition numbers in different age groups, etc.

VI. The components of the weightlifting training load

The intensity of weightlifting training. Major intensity zones and their characteristics and application. The extent of weightlifting training. Coordination of extent and intensity, etc.

VII. Overwork

General terms of overwork. Major symptoms of overwork. Major causes of overwork. What to do in overwork cases? etc.

VIII. Talent, selection of beginners in weightlifting

What does a sport talent mean? The general signs of talent. Talent spotting. Factors that determine talent selection. Junior education model in weightlifting, etc.

IX. Technical teaching of beginner weightlifters

General aspects of the technical teaching of beginner weightlifters, Major methods of technical teaching. The course of technical teaching. Completion of technical teaching. Technical training, etc.

X. Training planning in weightlifting

Basic concepts of training planning. General elements of training planning. Training plan types. Long-term plan. One-year plan. Macro cycles and the determination of their loading rhythm. Cycle plan. One-year plan sample. A verage intensity and weekly exercise numbers in a one-year plan, etc.

XI . Sport specific training or various age groups

General aspects. Practical aspects. Full training plan samples for all age groups (male and female, all training periods):

  • 10-12-year age group
  • 13-14-year age group
  • 15-16-year age group
  • 17-18-year age group
  • 18-19-year age group
  • +20-year age group

Weekly average training intensity (%) of male age groups. Weekly average training intensity (%) of female age groups. Weekly and daily total exercise numbers within the adequate training load zones. Figure collection of comparative training methods, etc.

XII. Characteristics of female weightlifting

About female weightlifting in general. General and sport specific differences between male and female weightlifters. Training during the menstrual cycle. Training during pregnancy. Training method related special considerations. Psychological aspects of training-competition, etc.

XIII. The role of the coach

Philosophy of coaching. Required coaching characteristics. Coaching tasks. Behavioural norms of coaches. Types of coaches. The „role-play” of coaches, etc.

 

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