David R Miller
info@eastcoastgold.org
Olympic Weightlifting | Strength Coach and Professional Ski Instructor. Assistant Coach, Team leader or Head Coach for many East Coast Gold National Championships. USA Weightlifting International Coach and Team Leader. LWC/USA Weightlifting liaison and promoter.
- USA Weightlifting International Coach
- USA Weightlifting Level II Team Manager
- USA Weightlifting National Referee
- East Coast Gold Weightlifting Team Exec. VP & Director
- NSCA – Strength & Conditioning Specialist
- PSIA Alpine Instructor
- USA Track & Field Coach
A life time of sports plus 25 years of Olympic Weightlifting Competition and Coaching have solidified my base knowledge for assisting athletes & fitness individuals build strong physiques. I specialize in strength training athletes and fitness enthusiasts interested in improving their sports performance and general health.
Olympic Weightlifting is one of the most popularly contested athletic events the world over. The lifts begin with weight resting on the floor (or platform) and finish with the athlete standing and the weight securely supported overhead. In order for these athletes to have the ability to support heavy weights overhead - not to mention getting them there; weightlifters have developed tremendous hip-torso power and stability - i.e. CORE STRENGTH!! I believe very strongly that practicing some of the techniques used to train competitive Olympic Weightlifters, modified for an individuals’ ability, skill, experience, etc. will improve everyone’s fitness level!
I have documented improved performance in vertical jump height, sprint speed, balance, coordination & flexibility for athletes in sports such as Basketball, Baseball, Football, Hockey, Martial Arts, Track and Field plus Modern Dance.... not to mention a few Weightlifters.
Accomplishments : 2009 77 KG National Master Silver Medalist. East Coast Gold Weightlifting Team Coach of the Year - 1999, 2000 & 2001. Nationally competitive weightlifter and Mid-Atlantic Champion 1995-1999. Athlete - University of Maryland Weightlifting Club Team, 1985-1988.
International assignments :
- September 2006 USA Weightlifting Team Leader - Sub 17 Pan Am Championship
- Guayaquil, Ecuador
- October 2001 USA Weightlifting Assistant Coach - Junior Pan AMs, Crillio Cup
- Caguas, Puerto Rico
Randy Hauer
rchauer@yahoo.com
- USA Weightlifting Senior Coach
- USA Weightlifting Sports Performance Coach
- USA Weightlifting LWC Referee
- Russian Kettlebell Challenge Team Leader-Instructor
- American Kettlebell Club Kettlebell Lifting Coach
Coached and competed in many meets including local, Master’s National and Pan American Championships. 2008 94 KG Master’s National Bronze Medalist. Achived Candidate Master of Sport qualification in Kettlebell (Girevoy) Sport for 80, 90 and 90+ KG body weight classes.
Since 2006, strength trained professional Stihl Series Timber Sport athletes Mike Eash and Arden Cogar, Jr. In 2008 coached Collegiate Stihl Series runner up Matt Slingerland who at 17, is the youngest competitor to qualify for the Collegiate Timber Sport series. Arden Cogar, Jr is the 2009 Stihl Series American Champion and will represent USA in the World Championships.
In 2005 coached former National Kettlebell Lifting Champion Jen Morey who in 2005, participated on the first USA Kettlebell Lifting Team to ever compete in Russia. Jen was runner up in the 2007 National Championships. She still holds the American record for total one arm snatches and double jerks.
In all sports, the ability to express speed, strength and explosiveness for the duration of an event are prized athletic attributes. These attributes are trainable. Both kettlebell and Olympic weightlifting movements are excellent choices for the athlete desiring to improve explosive strength. Traditional repetition kettlebell lifting also provides an additional dimension of strength endurance training not found in other weight training modalities. Intelligent application of both kinds of weight training practiced produces the ability to express explosive strength and speed repeatedly with less fatigue. Kettlebell and Olympic Weightlifting movements teach athletes to generate power from the core/torso and concentrically transmit focus and power. Weight training is essential for all athletes. For runners, cyclists and any endurance athlete.
Consider the words of three-time British Olympian Gordon Pirie :
“Before I began weight training, I was a long distance and cross country runner who could grind it out with anyone but a constant loser in the sprint. A diet of hard weights, however, turned me into a complete competitor, one who could pour on the pace and still sprint madly at the finish.”
