Improving Athletic Performance and Power Through Olympic-Style Lifting Movements
Coach Lansky’s presentation will focus on many of the issues surrounding the use of Olympic Weightlifting Movements in the strength and conditioning programs of competitive athletes.
Coach will discuss how the movements can help athletes enhance their ability to produce power and improve sports performance in a variety of sports.
After exploring the characteristics of this type of training and the rationale behind its use, Coach will then deal with some of the ‘hot issues’ surrounding the topic.
Triple joint Extension, concerns about overhead lifting, pulling vs. the lifts proper, and lifting form the floor vs. the hang are some of the key issues that will be discussed.
He will then present real-life, usable hands-on methods surrounding the introduction, coaching and refining of the lifts as they relate to non-weightlifting athletes. Coaching progressions for both individual and large group, team settings will be covered.
Key common technical challenges that strength and conditioning coaches deal with and their corrections will also be addressed.
Finally, the topic of how to best incorporate the lifts into a sport’s strength and conditioning program will be discussed. This will include program design challenges such as the integration of the lifts with the demands of a sport’s technical and tactical needs and the adjustments needed for off-season, pre-season and in-season time frames. Daily and weekly training unit design considerations will also be addressed.
Coaches will be able to take away some concrete methods and usable information that they can apply to the training of their athletes.
A 1988 graduate of Syracuse University, Coach Lansky has worked as a strength and conditioning specialist for the past 24 years. He has held coaching positions with various sports at Booker High School, Venice High School, Lakeland Christian High School and Eckerd College. He is currently employed as the Strength and Conditioning Coach for Football at Manatee High School in Bradenton, Florida where he also teaches part-time, and serves as head Coach for Boy's and Girl's Weightlifting. Manatee Football finished this past year as the Florida 7A State Champions and was ranked nationally in the top twelve in all three major polls.
Coach Lansky has been involved in competitive lifting sports since the early 90's, first as a competitor and then as a coach. He has coached Weightlifting at every level, from local meets to the World Championships. His coaching travels have taken him across 5 continents, serving as Coach for Team USA at the Pan American Championships, Junior Worlds, the University World Cup and the Australian Mermet Cup.
Domestically, he was the head coach for Team Florida Weightlifting form 1999 to 2008, which won the National Championships, National Junior Championships and the American Open during that time span. He has also personally helped develop and coach four separate USAW National Champions, all from the Florida Gulfcoast area.
As owner of RCL Sports Performance Services, Inc. and Optimum Performance Training, Inc., he works with prospective NFL athletes preparing for the Combine as well as professional athletes from the NFL, MLB, MLS, ITF, USTA and the WTA.
In addition to being a lead instructor for the USAW Coaching Education Courses, he served on USA Weightlifting's Coaching Committee (2004 to 2008) and Collegiate Competition Committee (2002 to 2008).
He has presented on the topics of Weightlifting, Strength and Conditioning and Sports Performance Training at multiple NSCA National Conferences, the IOC Solidarity Coaching Program for Weightlifting, the USTA Player Development Center, the Baylor Sports Performance Clinic and University of Tennessee Sports Performance Clinic.
Coach Lansky has been published in the NSCA Journal of Strength and Conditioning, Weightlifting USA Magazine, Training and Conditioning Magazine, and Purepower Magazine. He also was the 2007 USOC Doc Counsilman Award Winner for Sports Science Application to Coaching for the sport of Weightlifting.
A USAW Certified International Coach, Coach Lansky also holds NSCA CSCS and ACSM HFS credentials as well being eligible for his Florida Teaching Credential in Physical Education. As an athlete, he won the middleweight class at the APA Powerlifting Nationals in 1992 and is a past national record holder for the APA as well as a current WABDL state record holder.
