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That same year I took some athletes to the National Junior Championships and several of them won. That s when I started getting more heavily involved in the sport.<br><br>BFS: Did you continue lifting after college?<br><br>Schnorf: After college I didn t lift seriously. Also, the effoРsX-have made would have been pretty pathetic compared to the lifts some of the kids I was working with were doing.<br> <br>BFS: You stopped coaching for several years to go to law school, and it was almost a decade before you got back into coaching. Why were you away from the sport for so long?<br><br>Schnorf: There s a long path from the time you first start teaching athletes how to perform th Olympic lifts until they reach the point where they actually are capable of competing ona world level. It s such a huge commitment of time and energy to do it the way it should be done that sometimes it can burn you out. Besides that, it can be frustrating when your athletes lose interest or quit for other reasons. <br><br>BFS: So what made you get back into coaching lifters seriously?<br><br>Schnorf: James Williams, a high school thrower I was working with on the lifts, made an international junior squad in weightlifting, and that got me back into coaching the sport.<br><br>BFS: Did your physical education classes at college prepare you to coach weightlifting to young athletes?<br><br>Schnorf: At that time there was a reluctance to advocate weight training for kids, certainly prepubescent kids. In fact, I remember asking my instructors if it was safe and I can t recall anyone I ever had contact with who was a proponent of early training.<br> <br>BFS: Do you know of any top lifters who experienced growth plate injuries from the sport?<br><br>Schnorf: In my experience I can t think of any who have been diagnosed with such an injury, and I would say that I ve certainly started more kids at an earlier age than all but a handful of coaches in this country. I ve known plenty of kids who developed serious injuries from playing baseball and other sports, but I ve had very, very few even moderate injuries in weightlifting.<br><br>BFS: Many medical experts will say that while it may be fine for kids to lift heavy weights, they must avod lifting weights overhead because it can easily damage the shoulder at that ag. What is your opinion?<br><br>Schnorf: Medical and cientific theory often conflict with practical experince. A lot of such theoriesto.jpg" wi-xs="100">
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