WAXMAN'S GYM

Los Angeles' Weightlifting Gym

Training and Education, Fall/Winter 2019


In this last quarter of 2019, we have available several exciting training and education options for lifters and coaches. Hope you can join us:

October 19: Basic Barbell Strength Clinic
(for everyone, no experience needed)

Develop strength at any age. Designed for adults* with little or no experience, we’ll teach you how to get stronger in ways that will improve your life. Features basic barbell instruction and natural movements that anyone can perform including squatting, hinging, and pressing.

* Under 18 welcome with parental approval.

October 20: Fix Your Technique Sunday
(for athletes, some experience with Olympic lifts required)

In this small-group coaching session, we’ll help you improve your technique in the snatch and clean & jerk. Provides you with individual coaching in a small-group environment. Sign-up now if you are interested, historically these sessions sell-out quickly.

November 9-10: USAW Level 1 Coaching Course
(intended for coaches, but athletes are welcome)

Earn your Level 1 coaching certification from USA Weightlifting in this survey course. Featuring discussion of rules, movement standards, teaching progressions, and programming for beginning lifters.

November 15-17: Waxman’s Weightlifting Method Coaching Course
(for coaches, trainers, and other fitness professionals)

In this 3-day immersive course, we share our methods and all our secrets  for teaching and fixing the Olympic lifts inside our gym. We provide you with our step-by-step teaching progressions, our framework for diagnosing and fixing technique errors, and guidelines for beginning programming.

November 23-24: USAW Level 2 Coaching Course
(for coaches only)

Earn your Level 2 coaching certification from USA Weightlifting in this advanced course with an emphasis on developing competitive weightlifters. Features discussion of program design, competition preparation and coaching strategies, as well as long-term development of weightlifters.

November 24: Fix Your Technique Sunday
(for athletes, some experience with Olympic lifts required)

In this small-group coaching session, we’ll help you improve your technique in the snatch and clean & jerk. Provides you with individual coaching in a small-group environment. Sign-up now if you are interested, historically these sessions sell-out quickly.

Barbell Strength Training Benefits for Adults and Seniors

We all know strength training is supposed to be good for us as we age, right? But why is it so essential?

To answer this, Runrepeat.com posted a great summary of the scientific literature on aging and strength training. After analyzing more than 200 peer-reviewed studies, they’ve compiled a list of the benefits adults and seniors can expect from strength training.

In all, the summary highlights 78 separate, science-backed benefits from strength training for adults and seniors. These benefits fall into the following categories:

  1. Increasing functional independence
  2. Improving quality of life
  3. Improving sleep
  4. Reducing age-related muscle loss and sarcopenia
  5. Burning fat and increasing lean mass
  6. Improving osteoarthritic and bone health
  7. Improving cardiovascular health
  8. Improving mitochondrial health
  9. Improving mental health and cognitive functioning
  10. Fighting type-2 diabetes
  11. Improving recovery from hip injury
  12. Reducing risk of death

Head on over to Runrepeat.com to read the whole article.

Reminder: If you live in the LA area, consider joining us for our Basic Barbell Strength clinic on October 19, where we’ll teach you how to get started safely with barbell strength training.

Sean on Supplementary Exercises For the Olympic Lifts

Sean has a new article out on the Train Heroic blog, discussing accessory exercises for the Snatch and Clean & Jerk. From the article:

“There are three main ways that a supplemental exercise can assist with the two Olympic lifts: strengthening, teaching, and/or fixing. The more it has an impact – which can depend on what level the athlete is at or where they’re at in a training cycle – the more often we’ll use it. “

Read the whole article here.

Weightlifting World Championships Lifting Schedule 2019

The IWF Weightlifting World Championships run from Sept 18th-27th in Pattaya, Thailand.

We cobbled together (read: mostly copy/pasted) the schedule below for all A-sessions and all Team USA sessions based on the World’s thread from Reddit. We added our local time for those watching in the U.S.

Initial times listed are local Pattaya, Thailand time. Times in bold parenthesis are LOS ANGELES (Pacific) time.

The sessions will be broadcast live on the Olympic Channel. They will also be rebroadcasted on ESPN3 on the same day (and archived there for future viewing).

Sean is at the event as part of the broadcast team. When you hear the A-sessions announced via ESPN3 or other English broadcast, the voices you hear providing commentary include Sean Waxman, JP Nicoletta, and David Boffa, with help from Mark Canella and Michael Choi.

SESSION SCHEDULE

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