Weightlifting As Physical Education w/Kevin Doherty

Weightlifting As Physical Education w/Kevin Doherty

This week on the USA Weightlifting podcast we’ll be diving into another listener topic - tips on how to establish a high school weightlifting program.

Joining us this week, we have Coach Kevin Doherty. Coach Doherty has coached Olympic Weightlifting as a certified coach for 20 years at two different high schools.

In today’s episode he’s here to give us his story on how he built his programs from the ground up, and offer recommendations on how others can run an effective weightlifting program for junior high and high school students. Additionally we get Coach Doherty’s insight on early specialization in young athletes, why they should be playing multiple sports, and examples of the most common technical issues he sees in young athletes.

Topics:

08:30 - Starting a weightlifting team
13:10 - Starting a school program
29:00 - Weightlifting & track
41:00 - Biggest mistakes early on
46:05 - PE Warm-up progression
50:20 - Most common technical issues

Links:

www.RomWod.com

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