SoCal Weightlifting Academy
The SoCal Weightlifting Academy exists to spread knowledge, build relationships, and develop professional weightlifting coaches.
As a community, we don’t get the opportunity to learn from each other enough, and our SoCal Weightlifting Academy was designed to be a resource for new coaches wanting to develop their knowledge, and experienced coaches wanting to understand an even better way to develop athletes.
We are excited to share an improved academy in 2025 and hope it will provide a broader platform for more coaches.
Free Webinars
Join us once per month for a free, one-hour webinar that dives into various aspects of weightlifting coaching. Click below to see our next webinars topic, date, and to sign up.
Weightlifting Forum
Join us for two Zoom calls/month on the second and fourth Tuesday as we are joined by respected figures in the weightlifting community, and dive into discussion together on topics such as Jump Training, Team Alignment, VBT, Programming, Injury Prevention, Eccentrics, Developing Support Coaches, Injury Prevention, and others.
You will be a part of our online platform where you can post content, ask questions, chat directly with each other, and have access to our call history.
This is a monthly subscription.
Tuesdays at 11am PST/1pm EST starting January 14, 2025
Weightlifting Series
In 2025 we will be running six Weightlifting Series', which are 4, 90 minute calls once/week for a 4-week period where we dive deep into a specific topic to ensure you have all the tools you need to understand and implement in your coaching and weightlifting club. There are so many things to learn that can’t be covered in a short, 1 hour discussion, so we have created the Weightlifting Series to ensure the topics are given the appropriate amount of time. Our 2025 topics will be: Your Programming Toolkit, Improving Your Weightlifting Product, Jump Training, Annual Program Planning, Eccentrics, and VBT.
You will be a part of our online platform where you can post content, ask questions, chat directly with each other, and have access to our call history.
Sign up is available for each Series individually.
Weightlifting Series 1: Programming Toolkit | January 22 - February 12, 2025
Weightlifting Series 2: Improving Your Product | March 5-26, 2025
Wednesdays at 10am PST/1pm EST
Professional Coaching Track
The goal of the Professional Coaching Track is to advance your knowledge of weightlifting for yourself and for your athletes. The course will focus on the development and application of your skills in 5 different areas of coaching: Programming, Athlete Development, Athlete/Coach Relationship, Coaching Development and Mechanics of the Lifts.
The Professional Coaching Track is developed to build up you as a coach and uses both lecture and application calls where you will be an active participant in applying the content discussed.
The Professional Coaching Track also includes all the Weightlifting Forum and Weightlifting Series calls.
This is a year long commitment and we will run 3 cohorts in 2025. This is a monthly subscription.
Our first cohort will start February 11, 2025
Tuesdays at 11am PST/ 2pm EST