Weightlifting Career

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There is no denying to the fact that the sporting activities like the weightlifting sport are limited to the bigger events like the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, etc. However, there has been a significant jump in the events which include the sport of weightlifting as the competitive sport. The frequency of these events has also increased. This has resulted into bright career options in the sport of weightlifting.

How to make a career in weightlifting?

Learning the art of weightlifting is the basic way of entering the career domain of the weightlifting sport. Besides this, the understanding the biomechanics behind the art of weightlifting, results in the opening of the gates for the jobs like the fitness trainer, the analytical coach, etc. Many people think that there is hardly any variety in the jobs related to the sport of weightlifting. But, the current scenario has proved this conception a blunder. There are many different career options in the sport of weightlifting like the coaching career, the career of the fitness trainer, the health and the biomechanics analysers, etc Proper education and application of this education shall result in bright future in this field.

Weightlifting career: Qualification, Courses, Training:

The job of the coach shall require the experience in the sport of weightlifting and nothing else. The technical jobs in the sport of weightlifting require framed educational certification like the High school diploma, Bachelor’s degree, and preferably the Master’s degree. Experience is the key in achieving the jobs.

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Weightlifting career: Schools, Colleges and Universities:

After realising the orientation of the people towards the sporting activities for the purpose of career option, many educational institutions providing sports related education have cropped up all over the world. Some of them are as follows:

  • University of Minnesota, Minnesota
  • St. John’s University, New York
  • University of Central Florida, Orlando

Weightlifting career: Job opportunities, Salaries, Recruitment:

The salary purely depends on the job type, the technical job average salary being around 800-1000$.

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Feliks Vishevnik October 27, 2011 at 2:26 pm

FELIKS VISHEVNIK
MAILING ADDRESS: 125 B. 19th Street, Apt. 9 – C, Far Rockaway, NY 11691
Tel. (347) 606-5927
Objective: To obtain a coaching position and create a strongest team(s) in the Olympic Weight Lifting Sport and / or an assistant coach for a Soccer team(s).
Experience: 2001,- Substitute teacher in Hine Junior High School of Washington D.C.
1992–1998 Teacher of Physical Education in the High Schools of the City of New York: Basketball, Soccer, Weight-Lifting, elements of gymnastic exercises.
1991–995,- Assistant coach (summer time) for the Olympic Weight-lifting team at the sport camp of the Gettysburg of Pennsylvania; responsibilities included: planning the intensity of exercises, special weight training, techniques and analysis of classical exercises, analysis of the exercise levels
2002 – 2009, Hospitality services in Washington D.C., Virginia

EDUCATION: 1980–1985 Graduated from Zaporozjhye State University of the Ukraine (former USSR), Pedagogical Department of Physical Education

SINCE OF 1996 CITIZEN OF THE USA

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