Saturday, February 7, 2009

Benefits of Olympic Weight Training

You might be asking yourself what is Olympic Weight Training?
Olympic training consists of two main lifts, the Snatch and the Clean and Jerk. There are variations of these lifts that are often used to train in the Olympic style, lifts like Power Cleans, Overhead Press, and Front Squats all fall into the category of Olympic Weight Training.
Olympic weight training is favorable for training optimal technique in athletes that want to increase there performance levels in all sports. Including football, baseball, basketball and the like. Olympic lifting has been proven to enhance an athletes strength, agility, speed, and focus. You might be wondering how Olympic lifting can accomplish all these feats, Olympic training trains the body to explode and use its maximum possible force. The techniques of the lifts train the bodies fast twitch muscle fibers. These fibers are what give the body the potential of speed, explosiveness, and power. The more we train these fast twitch muscle fibers the faster and more powerful the body will be. Fast twitch muscle fibers are directly related to an athletes ability to jump, the more you have the higher you can jump. An athletes vertical jump is a universal tool in assessing ones overall athletic ability. In 1968 at the Mexico City Olympic Games the first testing of the sprinting and jumping abilities of all athletes were recorded. They tested all Olympic athletes by there vertical jump and a 25 meter sprint. The Olympic Weight Lifters out performed the world class sprinters and jumpers in these exercises. This only goes to prove that Olympic weight training is a great overall body work out that prepares the body for all kinds of physical activity. Olympic weight training is also a good supplement to any weight loss plan. Olympic Training aids in the process of metabolizing fats, burning tons of calories while performing the exercises. Olympic weight training also increases an athletes stamina resulting in optimum performance. I have incorporated a large amount of Olympic Style training into my own routine of Cardio and weight training. I have seen a big change in the way that I feel and the weights that I can put up. I have been on my active training regimen for four weeks now and have dropped my own weight from 420 pounds to 375 pounds by incorporating these core full body workouts into my training. In closing I would just like to add that Olympic Training is the best type of training that I have found to achieve an overall strong body, when used with a good clean diet and cardiovascular training there is nothing better.

1 comment:

Michael Roberts said...

WOW u weigh 375lbs! I am way outta shape and weigh like a hundred less than you! That is so big!! This i say because I have never been thios big in my entire life!!! Congratulations!!