Train The Trainer: ELEIKO

I was training yesterday with a friend of mine, playing with GymAware Pro (with a Web support and BTW I am AMAZED how powerful this tool is) while doing olympic lifts.

We were talking about different variations of the Olympic lifting (excluding the jerk) and I tried to explain to my friend the two criteria for the classifications: start position and catch position. What I came up with is the following matrix. I am not familiar if anyone wrote about this matrix before, but anyway I am posting it since I find it a nice tool to explain different variations of the lifts.

If there is anything you love to add or critique or modify I would really love to hear it, so please be free to post it.

On Sunday we had a game against Halmstad (which we unfortunatelly lost) and headcoach, second physio and me took the opportunity to visit ELEIKO company, the world leader in the olympic weighlifting equipment.

Erik Blomberg, the new CEO of the company was kind enough to give us guided tour through the assembly line and training center along with giving us some very interesting history about the ELEIKO (you can see great presentation here). In this training center coach Charles Poliquin and Paul Chek host their seminars.

I have really enjoyed the visit since I always wanted to get in touch with ELEIKO and working in Sweden for Hammarby IF allowed me such a great opportunity. I am also thankful to my friend Boris Šimurina for introducing Erik to me.

I am posting some of the pictures from the visit.