Female Olympic Weightlifters

By Kazem Panjavi

Not many books are available in the market of the weightlifting world to guide coaches on how to help female weightlifters, and lonely female weightlifters who don’t have a coach. Since I moved to the UK, I have had the chance to coach 1350 young and junior lifters in over 28 schools and my 6 clubs in 5 different London boroughs, of which half of them were female and I learnt how to deal with female lifters and educate myself to give my best knowledge to help them find their best. Since I became chief coach of the Odisha high performance center, I have worked hard to update my knowledge up to the world standard of a coach who deals with 40 lifters at the same time, 24 hours a day. I am still learning and would like to pass on what I learn to others from my 35 years of coaching and lifting experience. I have also written another book about how to coach at weightlifting competitions called How to win Olympic Weightlifting Competition.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Jun 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9781398455153

Kazem Panjavi

Kazem Panjavi’s experience as an Olympian (1992 Barcelona), representing Iran and national record holder (140.5kg + 175kg= Total 315kg in 70kg category), and his experience as a national coach in the United Kingdom, Iran and India, and his connections with the coaches worldwide will be an asset. Kazem has trained over 1800+ athletes worldwide and from his experience, he apprehends that providing lifters with technical training right from the beginning reduces the work when they become elite lifters. Kazem aims to educate coaches who are working with beginners and intermediary level lifters and especially those who work with female lifters. With the latest scientific methods and the latest trends in the world, he has made sincere efforts to make all the information handy. He has attempted to provide all the technical data and features of the current trends in a single book as very few books are available having all the information in one place.

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Female Olympic

Weightlifters

Kazem Panjavi

Austin Macauley Publishers

Female Olympic Weightlifters

About the Author

Copyright Information ©

Acknowledgements

Olympic Weightlifting and Female Competition

Women’s First Olympic and International Competition

The Difference in Equipment and Category for Male and Female Lifters

Women and Resistant Training

Benefits of Lifting Weight

Women and Menstrual Cycle

Weightlifters and Menstrual Cycle

Difference Between Powerlifting and Olympic Weight Lifting

Warm-Up and Cool Down

Strength

Stretching/Flexibility

Speed

Plyometric

Endurance

Circuit Training

Bar Drill

All Exercises

Method of Training Programs

How to Choose Programs?

Beginners Level 1:

Beginners Level 2:

Intermediate Level 2:

Advance Level (32 sessions–5 weeks)

Beginners Level 1(Part one)

Beginners Level 1(Part two)

Beginners Level 2 (Part one)

Beginners Level 2 (Part two)

Beginners Level 2 (Part three)

30 sessions (5 weeks) Intermediate Level 1 (Part 1)

Intermediate Level 1 (Part 2)

Intermediate Level 2 (Part 1)

Intermediate Level 2 (Part 2)

32 sessions (5 weeks) Advance Level (Part one)

Advance Level (Part Two)

Advance Level (Part Three)

Two sessions per week for busy lifters

All waves

Two Weeks Before a Competition

Two weeks before a competition – 12 days (AM and PM) Two sessions in a day

Example of Percentage Planner

Importance of Massage for Weightlifters

Supplement Needed for Weightlifters

Daily Supplement Plan

IWF Rules of the Competition

National Rules

Supplement Needs for Weightlifters References

A Memoir

About the Author

Kazem Panjavi’s experience as an Olympian (1992 Barcelona), representing Iran and national record holder (140.5kg + 175kg= Total 315kg in 70kg category), and his experience as a national coach in the United Kingdom, Iran and India, and his connections with the coaches worldwide will be an asset. Kazem has trained over 1800+ athletes worldwide and from his experience, he apprehends that providing lifters with technical training right from the beginning reduces the work when they become elite lifters.

Kazem aims to educate coaches who are working with beginners and intermediary level lifters and especially those who work with female lifters. With the latest scientific methods and the latest trends in the world, he has made sincere efforts to make all the information handy. He has attempted to provide all the technical data and features of the current trends in a single book as very few books are available having all the information in one place.

Copyright Information ©

Kazem Panjavi 2022

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ISBN 9781398455146 (Hardback)

ISBN 9781398455153 (ePub e-book)

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Acknowledgements

I bring my knowledge to this guidebook to help new coaches have quick access to the latest information, with help from Tenvic sports in Odisha and my students. Introduction of Benefits of Lifting Weight With the help of Shila Panjavi Hormones & Surveys by Nazharia Schifra & Ilze Ojere. Analyses a diagram/charter by Fatemeh Nazari Absardi with help from Bibekananda Sahu Massage, Diensh Behera, Ellora Pradhan, and Bikash Chandra Swain. Supplements for weightlifters with help from Deborah Alawode.

Olympic Weightlifting and Female

Competition

1

Tatiana Yuryevna Kashirina the strongest women in the world

Olympic Weightlifting competitions have been part of ancient civilizations such as Egypt, China, and Greece. Historically, the lifts contested have varied since the start of the modern Olympics. In the beginning, they contested three lifts, the snatch, clean and jerk, and the clean and press, however, the clean and press were removed from competition in 1972. In today’s competitions, lifters have three attempts in the snatch and three attempts in the clean and jerk. The winner of the competition is the lifter with the highest total of the combined lifts.

The first lift is the snatch, in which the lifter has to move the barbell from the floor to overhead in one movement. This movement requires a lot of technique and flexibility; many believe that gymnastic-like attributes are important for mastery of this movement, and since female athlete learns faster, they have an advantage in this movement.

The clean and jerk is the movement of the barbell from the floor to the shoulders (the clean phase), followed by the movement of the barbell from shoulders to overhead (the jerk phase). This movement is less technical than the snatch and consequently favours strength over flexibility as a counter to the snatch, so male athlete has an advantage in this movement.

Olympic weightlifters do not compete in anything other than the two movements named above, they use deadlift, squat and pressing variations to improve their Olympic li fts. In popular culture, all the strength sports are often mistakenly grouped into one sport, coaches must understand the differences between them, and also that male and female should be trained differently for these sports.

Women’s First Olympic and International

Competition