Download or read book Olympic Weightlifting Strength Manual written by Louie Simmons and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am writing this book on the development of special strengths to help raise individual lifts, specifically the snatch and the clean and jerk. The value of the top strength has been forgotten. If strength did not matter, then there would be no need for weight classes. But, indeed, there are weight classes and the weights are always larger in the next higher weight class.