Continuing Education - Power & Grace Performance

Continuing Education is one of the pillars of excellence of Power and Grace Performance. We believe in providing our athletes with evidence-based training. Power and Grace aspires to provide coaches and athletes with actionable knowledge by providing a breadth of educational resources aimed at enhancing weightlifting performance, and ultimately the sport of weightlifting. To accomplish this, we seek to connect with other coaches within the community utilizing various methods in order to grow together in pursuing excellence.

The Process: Sports Psychology Webinar Series with Dr. Matthew Myrvik

In an effort to provide Power and Grace affiliated athletes, and the weightlifting community at large, with access to forms of continuing education grounded in evidence and experience- we are excited to offer a Sports Psychology Webinar Series with Dr. Matthew Myrvik. The aim of this series of webinars is to provide weightlifters with strategies to address the struggles that come with a perfection-based sport (first webinar), sustained goals/motivation for success (second webinar), and competition anxiety and confidence (third webinar).

The Platform: Secrets to Successful Competition Coaching

While the rules of coaching a weightlifting meet are simple, learning how to use those rules to your advantage separates the good coaches from the great ones. The Platform is here to help the beginner to advanced coaches techniques and strategies from Head Coach of Power and Grace, Spencer Arnold. During this 2.5 hour session, we take a deep dive into coaching at a weightlifting meet.

The Program

Application of Accessory Movements to Olympic Weightlifting

This 3-part, 1 hour per session webinar walks you through how Power and Grace Performance uses accessory movements for the purpose of Elite Olympic Weightlifting. With each purchase, you will receive a file with a list of our accessory movements and links to video demos alongside the 3 hours of teaching. We look specifically at how to program accessory work to build bulletproof athletes and not take away from the primary lifts.

Foundations of a Beginner Weightlifter Video Series

Invest in yourself and your athletes and learn how to effectively program for the beginning weightlifter. THE PROGRAM will help coaches learn exercise selection, macrocycle, mesocycle, and microcycle design. At the end of the course, coaches will have the ability to fully create a 12-week program that will work to develop beginner weightlifters at any gym.

Next Steps – Programming for the Intermediate Weightlifter Video Series

If you liked the Foundation Program for Beginning Weightlifters or have a good grasp of entry-level weightlifting programming and want to explore the next level, this is the series for you. This video series is 3 parts designed to demonstrate how to create a 5-day program for the intermediate lifter that includes the following metrics and teaching points: 5 Day Exercise Selection, Rep Count, Daily, Weekly, and Cyclical Total Tonnage, Average Daily, Weekly, and Cyclical Intensity, and Undulating Periodization Model.