Weightlifting  |  Strength & Conditioning

Want to Learn Weightlifting?

Are you interested in learning the Olympic sport of weightlifting? Finding a qualified coach locally to teach you basic technique and to guide you with a sensible training program is a challenge. According to 1984 USA Olympic Team Coach Harvey Newton, “Weightlifting is a very small sport in America, with about 3000 registered athletes (all age ranges) and about 1500 people who have passed at least a USA Weightlifting Club Coach certification course.

If you can’t find a good coach anywhere near your location or if you want to explore the 21^st Century solution (Dartfish), contact Coach Newton, who now offers weightlifting coaching via the Internet. or, consider adding him to your “team” if you already have a coach.

Through a combination of solid program design set for your particular schedule and qualifications, along with the use of Dartfish, the leading edge provider of motion analysis, Coach Newton can provide coaching advice long distance guaranteed to improve your weightlifting performance!!!

In an average month Coach Newton trains 4-6 weightlifters. Each lifter receives a personalized training program (1 month intervals), regular weekly e-mail updates, one monthly telephone contact, two Dartfish mediabooks, and if available, hands-on coaching at major national or regional meets.

Coach Newton brings more than 30 years of weightlifting coaching experience to the platform. He’s coached at the local club level, all the way to the Olympics. He realizes that the ultimate responsibility for improvement lies with you, the lifter. But, if program design, proper peaking, or technique problems are keeping you from making progress, contact Coach Newton today.

"Coach Newton:

When my daughter, Leslie, began in high school weightlifting, I wanted to obtain for her expert instruction so that she could learn the fundamentals of the clean and jerk lift. I attended a state weightlifting meet, and observed you coaching the two most phenomenal lifters in the meet. 

It was obvious that their high school coaches stepped aside, and permitted you to handle the coaching of their athletes. After witnessing your lifters best all other lifters by wide margins, I went down to the floor to meet you. I was very pleased that you were willing to take on another athlete, and your assistance with Leslie has been very instrumental in her success and love for the sport of weightlifting. 

During the summer after we met, I took a trip to York, Pennsylvania.  We toured the USA Weightlifting Hall of Fame.  Leslie was astonished to see your picture as the coach of the Olympic Team. 

I have attended every state high school weightlifting meet for the past several years. Not unexpectedly, the best lifters in the clean and jerk are routinely coached by you. In the sectional meet last year, Leslie was called for push-pressing her first two lifts, and became frustrated. You took the time from the lifters you were coaching to speak to her.  Her third lift was successful. Leslie felt honored that you would assist her in this manner.

I hope to keep in touch with you and have you assist Leslie in the years to come.”

Steven R. Kutner, Esquire