DCU Weightlifting Club is Ireland's biggest university weightlifting club. The club are involved in the competitive sport of Olympic Weightlifting and frequently send athletes to competitions around the country. The club's main activity is coaching and training athletes to perform the two competition lifts of weightlifting; the snatch and the clean and jerk. As well as building strength and power the lifts are great for improving flexibility, co-ordination and athleticism. Because of these qualities the competition lifts and their variations are becoming more and more popular in the training styles of other sports such as rugby, GAA and athletics. Although a lot of club members do compete in sanctioned competitions, they also learn and train in order to compliment their own sports.