Weightlifting For Sports | What Strength Coaches GET WRONG!

Olympic Weightlifting is one of the most effective forms of strength training to improve Sports / Athletic Performance, but most strength coaches are wrong about this form of training. Strength Coach Dane Miller breaks down his most important reasons for using Lifting for athletes and what other strength coaches get wrong about Olympic Lifting that holds back athletes training and their sports performance.

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Looking to PERFORM BETTER as an athlete? Learn how to train for SPORTS PERFORMANCE!

[danielbondaza]

Dang. Every time you upload these kind of videos, I just wanna hop up and head into a gym💯

[matthewfigueroa]

I’ve learned so much about proper training because of you

[tayloranderson]

Love it! Bought the book a couple weeks ago and have been implementing the wrestling variations for my Brazillian Jiu Jitsu S&C

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[zzz-jjzh]

Hang cleans have to be my most favorite exercise.

[patricktarman]

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[demeitresmillion]

I don’t know shit about coaching, but I feel like I really learned something. Great content hands down.❤

[jater]

1:02 Olympic weightlifters saying doing bodybuilding is terrible.
Chinese Weightlifting team: are we a joke to you?

[chrisgannon]

I’ve been watching the vids and I’ve learned so much from them and appreciate them greatly, but can u make a video on how to do the lifts (like the form and ques etc.)

[carljacobson]

Olympic lift variations and accessory exercises are easy and quick to learn for a novice
I've found that high pulls work great for me in learning to generate explosive power
Overhead Squats build balance and core strength
Clean grip power snatches also teach explosion without needing to use heavy weight
The Olympic lift variations also built my back muscles up dramatically
Whoever thinks that the Olympic lifts/variations have no use for athletes is just delusional
I wish that I have done the Olympic Lifts/variations since my teenage years when I started weight training.

[jamesburr]

There is no doubt that OL lifting promotes and enhances athletic and sports performance, however it is one of many tools that an S&C coach should have in their box. If as a coach you don’t have the knowledge or confidence to coach and cue the OL lift you should have other tools in your arsenal to produce athletic performance, force, power, speed, coordination. I’m not in any of the three groups per say but I use the tools Iv learnt to improve performance and reduce injury occurrence, whether it be a programme based on improving structural imbalances or strength. An athlete is only as strong/athletic as their weakest link so creating a strong base and building on this and building their technical performance, mobility flexibility strength etc.

[mackweber]

Do you have any strong opinions on Girevoy/KB sport or mace and club bell? I'd figure the unilateral asymmetry would make for killer accessory work with a ton of sports, but it seems to have stayed pretty niche.

[csfmfgd]

please do a video for boxing.
i’ve been asking for ages

[jakewilliamson]

I want to like you and your philosophies. I agree with many things you preach. Be careful criticizing other coaches that have made it farther than you though, and make way more money. There is a reason professional strength coaches put less emphasis in having their athletes focus so much on Olympic Lifts, especially at the elite level in their specific sport. Not saying Olympic lifting is bad, just not the end all be all of sports training like you preach. Technical coordination needs to be sports specific. Need to focus on training football players to be technically coordinated for football, not Olympic weightlifting. Not saying there isn’t carryover, just not like what you preach once again. I think you bring up good points, and I believe in many things you say.

[ronlugbill]

Most sports movements like running, jumping, and throwing are fast, only 1/10 or 2/10 of a second. Most weightlifting movements like squats, deadlifts, or bench presses take 1 or 2 seconds to perform. So, you are training your muscles to perform more slowly. Sports performance is increased by moving faster, not slower. Olympic weightlifting movements are about 1/2 second. So they are more specific to sports movements. Your rate of force production is higher with Olympic lifts than with slower lifts. You can use less weight and do squats, bench press, etc. at higher rates of speed. Or you can do plyometrics or ballistics, which are faster movements. The idea is to build a base of strength, then train more for power at speeds that are closer to the speeds of athletic movements.

[zboghinisayer]

Mr. Miller, what cardio do you suggest to a wrestler?

[Ze_Ninguem]

Do you ever incorporate snatch grip high pulls with athletes?

[sharannandi]

Sir please make baseball strength and power program

[victorcastillo-dxvh]

Olímpic weightlifting absolutely necessary in sports