Olympic Weightlifting for Sports

Yes, the book may be called a pamphlet. But it is a powerful and useful one at that, it is easily understandable and accessible, and makes the point that most athletes from non-weightlifting sports can benefit much from taking the olympic lifts into their exercise plans. Furthermore, the book has enough detail to stand alone as an instruction guide to athletes and coaches with limited time to spend on the olympic lifts. This is not a book for weightlifters - it is not meant to be - it is a book for athletes and coaches in other sports. It's a two-hour read, which gives you the rationale for including the lifts, instructions on how to do the lifts, a plan for technical progression between the different lift varieties, and two sample programmes. I have never opened a book that let me learn so much in just two hours. For that, it fully deserves its 5 stars. And it doesn't hurt that amazon.com beat their delivery estimate with 28 days!

I have purchased both editions of Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches. They are wonderful for learning and coaching the lifts. They have everything you need to coach the lifts. What I liked about this book is that it assumes that not everyone who wants to do the lifts wants to be a competitive lifter. Many people just need to learn how to properly get the bar from the ground to the shoulders or overhead in the most efficient manner so they can translate it to their sport. I have plenty of athletes who come into my gym without any lifting experience. I can now use this guide for progressions, as well as encourage them to lift properly without putting themselves in less than ideal positions for the sake of completing the lift. Greg also points out the importance of the lifts, safety involved with them, as well as the technical difference for athletic training vs competitive weightlifting. As with his other books, Greg has great instruction, pictures, and detail that other books do not contain. I recommend this book to any athlete that wants to include the lifts into their program but unsure of how to go about introducing them. I also suggest that every coach should get this book so they can understand so much more about the lifts.

Greg Everetts book on weightlifting for sports is well done. The writing is clear and concise. He breaks the lift down into easily managed portions and creates a reliable template to build on. The photography in this book is excellent. The pictures illustrating the push down under the bar are well done and demonstrate a difficult concept very well. With the resurgence of popularity of Olympic style weightlifting, this book is an excellent resource. It is small enough to fit in your gym bag and easy to read . I only wish I could just hand one to every person I see in the gym flailing around with a bar, thinking they are "Oly' Liftin'"

Short but complete. Very high quality, complete, useful and reliable information. Good black and white photos for every point. Zero filler. Every sentence is short, clear and to the point. Every point is explained. Very helpful is the list of bullet points. I wrote the bullet points in my iphone and review after and during each workout. It also breaks down each lift into parts which can be practiced and mastered separately. The complex olympic lifts are presented as step by step parts which are gradually combined until you have the complete lift. I can see myself rereading this book for a long time to come. No book or DVD can replace a human coach. I learned the lifts in Crossfit training and I'm using this book to review the many points of good technique. Crossfit training moved very quickly and having this book as a reference is very helpful to me. If you want to learn the lifts on your own (not recommended), I think that watching youtube videos together with this book might be pretty good.

My son is a big kid who plays tough, strong-guy sports like football and rugby. Coaches in those sports like to see big numbers in several specific lifts: squat, bench press, and power clean. Most important among these is the power clean, because it requires strength in all the important body parts, as well as quickness and coordination that the other two lifts do not. I purchased "Olympic Weightlifting for Sports" precisely for the instruction it provides in the power clean. Olympic weightlifting seems to be mostly about technique. I imagine those guys look down on the power clean as one-half of a military-style clean and jerk, but for us it was very difficult, until I read Coach Everett's book. (I take a big part in my son's gym training by force of circumstances.) Everett's text and photos portray proper technique for the clean and jerk (and other lifts) exceptionally well. I had sought help from many gym rats, including three "personal trainers," all of whom seem dedicated and skilled and were most helpful, yet Everett taught us the necessary moves for the proper power clean. Reading this book led me to "You Tube" exhibitions of Olympic lifts of the clean and jerk, etc., as well as power cleans. (Those Russians are nutz.) Altogether, my son, who is coming off an injury and was "re-establishing" himself in the weight room after a long lay-off, added 100 pounds to his power clean in just 6 weeks, using our new-found techniques. (That is an unusual circumstance, and no beginning lifter should try or expect to realize that gain! Please don't try!) My point is that proper technique can add a lot. Our use of "You Tube" clearly illustrated the effect of Everett's static text. I was amazed by what I saw, and nobody in our gym uses that proper technique for the "catch." A short book that has made a great difference in my son's performance.

This is a great book in Olympic lifting and a great compliment to the Author's other comprehensive text in this topic. Greg has a special talent to break down the technical aspects of the lifts and progressions and make them very easy for anyone to understand. This is a very valuable book for all people beginning with the O-lifts and for those that just need simple, concise system of progressions. Very useful book, no matter what skill level you're at. For a deeper dive, I'd recommend his other book "Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide," but this is one that belongs in the trainer's bag without question.

It is a book on the basics explained simply in a way that is easy to understand. Great progressions that will benefit any athlete looking to become more explosive and increase their hip, ankle, shoulder and wrist flexibility. One word of caution- Olympic weightlifting is extremely addictive! You may find yourself buying the expanded version of the book and the DVD and looking forward to all your training sessions. Don't say you haven't been warned.

The content is good, it does have what seem to be a decent set of progressions towards learning the lifts. But it has a very old fashioned look and feel. Black and white pictures and a narrative format that make it a pain to dip back into and find specific points. If it was 5usd I could live with that, but the pricing (I paid 15usd) doesnt really represent value for money.