Coaching the Clean & Snatch: A Simple 5 Step Approach
This hands-on presentation will highlight a step by step system for teaching the Snatch and Clean and their variations. Coach Lansky will explain a simple, effective and reproducible system of teaching the hang power clean, the power clean and the squat clean as well as the hang power snatch, power snatch and full snatch.
After a brief introduction on philosophy and biomechanics, Coach Lansky will take participants through a scientifically-based, safe teaching progression for each lift.
Specific attention will be paid to how Coach Lansky gears his instructional cues and corrections to teaching the lifts to non-weightlifting athletes, both at the developmental and advanced levels.
Rich Lansky serves as a strength and conditioning coach and physical education teacher at Manatee High School, an 8A Public School in Florida. He started at Manatee High School in late 2010.
At Manatee, he is responsible for teaching weight training and strength training concepts classes as part of the Physical Education Curriculum. He also serves as the head Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Manatee High Football Program, designing and implementing strength and speed work for the Freshmen, Junior Varsity and Varsity levels.
Lansky is the Head Coach for both Girls and Boys Weightlifting Teams at Manatee as well as the Strength Coach for Girls Basketball. During the summer, Lansky coordinates strength and conditioning for Boys Basketball, Boys Soccer, Boys and Girls Swimming and Diving, and Baseball. In the past he has worked with Volleyball and Cheerleading as well.
In addition to his work at MHS, Lansky has been the head coach for Team Florida Gulf Coast Weightlifting, formerly known as Team Florida, since 1999. During the late 90s and early 2000s, this USAW club won the team trophy at Nationals, the American Open, Jr. Nationals, School-Age Nationals, and the 23 and Under Championships.
Since 1996, Lansky has coached 5 different USA Weightlifting National Champions, among them a Pan American Games Team Member, two World Team Members, three World University Team Members, three Junior Word Team Members and a Youth World Team Member.
He has coached Internationally on five different continents, serving as an Official Team USA Coach at the Mermet Cup in Australia, the Junior Worlds in both Europe and Central America, and the Pan Am World University Championships in South America.
As a Personal Coach, he has worked at the Pan American Games, the World Championships, the Junior World and Junior Pan Am Championships, the World University Cup and the School-Age Pan American Championships.
Before he became a teacher and coach at the high school level, Lansky spent twenty years in the private sector, operating two Sports Performance Training Centers, one in Sarasota, Florida and one in Lakeland, Florida. During this time, he worked with athletes of all levels, from developing youth to professional football, baseball players and tennis athletes. He ran a successful NFL Combine and Pro Day Prep Program from 2005 to 2011.
He also coached with Eckerd College Rugby, Booker High School Football and Wrestling, Venice High School Wrestling and Lakeland Christian Football during the past 25 years.
A 1988 Graduate of Syracuse University, Lansky has been NSCA Certified CSCS since 1992, an ACSM Certified Exercise Physiologist since 1993, and is a Level 5 USA Weightlifting Senior International Coach.
He also holds a Physical Education Teaching Credential for the State of Florida.
Lansky served on the USA Weightlifting Coaching committee, the Collegiate Committee, and the Board of Directors during the span of 2001- 2009. He helped develop policy and educational materials on the topic of youth and weightlifting during this time period as well as collaborated on a USAW Florida High School Coaching Manual.
In addition to his coaching and committee service to USAW, he has been an instructor for the USAW Coaching Education Program since 2000, teaching level one and two certifications around the country for 16 years.
In 1996, Lansky won the Special Olympics Florida Coach of the Year for his work with Powerlifting.
He was recognized as the USOC Doc Counsilmen Sport Science Coaching Award Recipient for USAW in 2007.
In 2014, he was one of three coaches honored by American Football Monthly /Samson Strength as a High School Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year.
The Tampa Bay Lightning Organization awarded him an Excellence in Education award in 2016 for his work with Manatee County Physical Education Teachers and Coaches on the topic of Weight Lifting in the High School environment.
This will be the second time that Coach Lansky has presented at the CSCCa National Conference. He has also presented at three NSCA state conferences as well as four NSCA National Conferences.Over the past two decades, he has presented at the University of Tennessee, Baylor University, USA Tennis Developmental Center, the North Carolina Coaches Conference at Wake Forest, the Florida Athletic Coaches Association State Clinic, Purdue University and the USF Strength and Conditioning Clinic as well as Glazier Football Clinics and an IOC/IWF Sport Symposium Roundtable in Colorado Springs.
He has been published in the NSCA journal of Strength and Conditioning, Purepower Magazine, Strength Plus Magazine, Weightlifting USA, and Training and Conditioning Magazine.
Lansky has been featured in educational videos for the Agility Training Institute as well as the International Tennis Performance Association. He produced videos on Olympic Style Weightlifting and Strength and Conditioning for Wrestling back in the late 90s.
He is a thirty-year veteran of competitive strength sports. As a powerlifter, he won his class at the 1992 APA Nationals and was best lifter at the 1993 Drug-Free Deadlift Nationals. Throughout the early 90s, Lansky set open drug-tested national records in the 165 lb class that lasted ten years. In the 2000s, he won a WABDL State Title and set open records in the Deadlift. During the last two years, he set a Master's State Deadlift Record in the WABDL and State and American Master's Records in the AAPF.
Lansky and his wife have been married 25 years.
