Olympic Lifting with Olympic Silver Medalist Alex Krychev

The Olympic Weightlifting program is for people that are serious about lifting and want to compete in weightlifting competitions. 

The training sessions are held Monday through Friday from 4:00 – 6:30pm. and Saturday from 3:30 to 5:30pm.  Training can be purchased by the session or the month.  Multi-session packages are available.

Call 925-457-4587 now to schedule your first session.

This is your opportunity to train with one of the most respected Olympic Lifting coaches in the country. 

Alex Krychev Personal and Coaching Bio:

Personal Athletic Bio:

•  The first teenager in the world to win a medal in a senior World championship -  silver medal at the 1970 World championships in Columbus, OH.
• As junior, broke 28 World records.
• Silver Medalist 1972 Munich Olympics. 
• Age 20, career ending injury.

Coaching Bio:

• Graduate, Bulgarian National Sports Academy.
• Ex coach of the Bulgarian National Olympic weightlifting team – 1977 and 1978
• Coached several Bulgarian European and World champions
• Defected (received political asylum) in the US during a World championship in Gettysburg, PA – 1978
• Certified USAW coach
• 5 Years Strength and Conditioning Coach, Monte Vista High School.
• Current Coach: CoreQuest Weight Lifting Club training 2 time European Junior Champion Martin Pashov.

The training sessions are held Monday through Friday from 4:00 – 6:30pm. and Saturday from 3:30 to 5:30pm.  Training sessions are led by Coach Alex Krychev.

The sport of Olympic Weightlifting consist of Snatch and Clean & Jerk. On competitions, every lifter is allowed of three lifts in the Snatch and three lifts in the Clean & Jerk. The winner is determined by the total of the best lift in each exercise.

Call 925-457-4587 now to schedule your first session.

There are three types of weightlifting

• Olympic weightlifting
• Power lifting
• Bodybuilding.

Bodybuilding is done mostly with machines, in gyms like Pinnacle, Bally. The ultimate goal for bodybuilders is to have huge muscles. Not specifically useful for most sport. Just for appearance.
 
Power lifting is consist of three exercises – Bench Press, Back Squat and Dead Lift. The ultimate goal for power lifter is to lift heavier weight in each exercise. Power lifters develop mostly slow twitch fibers in their muscles, hence power lifters are extremely strong but lacking speed, quickness and explosiveness.
 
Olympic weightlifting develops strength as well as quickness, explosiveness and speed. Very often we make comparison between B-52 bomber and F-16 jet fighter, where B-52 are the Power lifters and the F-16 are the Olympic lifters. The B-52 (Power lifter) is very powerful but slow and less maneuverable compare to the F-16 (Olympic lifter) – strong, fast, very maneuverable.
 
Only the Olympic lifting is part of the Olympics. Power lifting and Bodybuilding are not.  

Olympic weightlifting is very closely monitored by WADA (World Anti Doping Agency) and USADA (US Anti Doping Agency) especially for use of steroids and other banned substances. Power lifting and Bodybuilding are not.

Read about the benefits of Olympic Lifting.
 

Martin Pashov, lifting for the CoreQuest Weightlifting Clubs, takes home the gold and breaks sets a new PWA record with his 203 Clean and Jerk. Martin completes a 162K Snatch and 203K Clean and Jerk to win the 105K Mens Division.

Kris Pavlov takes home the Gold medal in the 69K (152lb)Mens weight class at the Tommy Kono 2009 Open with a 85K (187lbs) Snatch and 115K (253 lbs) Clean/Jerk for a total of 200K (440lbs)