Coaching for lifters at every stage — from your first snatch to your next competition. Start with the route that fits where you are now.
Build confidence, learn the lifts in a sensible order and establish foundations you won’t have to undo. An online course you work through at your own pace, with one technical review of your lift by Mike.
Establish where you are, identify what’s getting in the way and where the opportunities for progress are, then build an individual plan with Mike. For lifters at any level who want a coach, not just a programme.
Every lift depends on two things: the physical capacity to do the work, and the skill to express it under load. They aren’t separate phases. They develop together.
Strength, positions, speed and tolerance for training — what you have to spend.
Organising that capacity in the snatch and clean & jerk — consistently, under load, on the day.
Develop both deliberately and the lifts move. Measured on the platform, not in cues.
Every rep of a lift is also training: repetitions, volume and repeated exposure build the capacity the lift needs. Good coaching chooses the practice so both move forward at once.
A missed lift shows you where it changed — not why. That’s why coaching starts by looking at the whole picture before deciding what to work on.
More than 30 years in Olympic weightlifting — competing for Team GB and winning over ten national titles. Today Mike coaches lifters in London and remotely through Causer Strength, alongside his work with the IWF Refugee Team. Precision Nutrition certified.
The same method runs from a lifter’s first session to an Olympic platform: understand what’s limiting the lift, train it with structure, and stay consistent long enough for it to show.
Clean & jerk PB · Ramiro Mora, Olympian, 7th at Paris 2024
Clean & jerk PB · Stefano Cataldi, 2× National Champion
Snatch PB · Alex Jamieson
A practical audit of your own training: notice the pattern in your lifts, form a sensible hypothesis about what’s holding them back, and choose one thing to test. The last lesson points you to the next step that fits — the course or One-to-One.
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Pick the route that matches where you are today. You can always move to the other later.