About Level 1 Award in Coaching Weight Lifting
Modules of the Course
Roles & Responsibilities of a Coach
- Review the specific qualities and behaviours of an effective coach
Safety in the Sport
- Understand the importance of preparing equipment and participants for a weightlifting session
- Understand the importance of a weightlifting specific warm up and cool down and how this can help to mitigate the risk of injury
- Understand what areas of the body need to be mobile in order to complete the Olympic lifts (you will also learn the specific joint actions that need to be achieved)
- Highlight the specific joints which need to be factored into a warm up for weightlifting specific activity
The Coaching System
- Highlight critical coaching skills that can optimise coaching performance
BWL Technical Model
- Learn why we use the BWL Technical Model
- Understand how to use key concepts within the model – including the Technical Components and Technique Triangle
The Lifts
- Identify the key positions for the Snatch, Clean and Jerk
- Learn the stable technical components for each key position
- Learn the good practice components for each key position
- Learn how to capture a technical series for each lift
Assistance Lifts
- Learn how to utilise the Back Squat, Press and Dead Pull for weightlifting
BWL Teaching Method
- Understand why we perform each one of the BWL Teaching Exercises
- Learn how to use the teaching exercises in sequence
- Identify the key coaching points for each exercise
- Full descriptions of every BWL Teaching Exercise for the Snatch, Clean and Jerk
Physical Qualities for Weightlifting
- Identify the main physical qualities that athletes need to develop in Weightlifting
- Understand how we can develop each physical quality
Basic Rules of the Sport
- Overview of a weightlifting competition
- Increase understanding of what happens at a weightlifting competition
- Increase awareness of the BWL National Age Group competitions programme
Planning a Weightlifting Session
- Understand the principles behind the Plan, Do, Review cycle and how it can be applied to weightlifting
- Increase understanding of how to structure a weightlifting session (including order of exercises)
- Identify components of an effective warm up
- Identify components of an effective cool down