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Home » coaching » Weightlifting Scoop Podcast #41 – First Meets & Competition Coaching

Weightlifting Scoop Podcast #41 – First Meets & Competition Coaching

August 7, 2013 By Gregor Winter

On Weightlifting Scoop #41 Glenn Pendlay, Don McCauley and Travis Cooper sat down to talk about First Meets & Competition Coaching.

Download: link to mp3 (66mb, right click + ‘save as’)

  • First Meet: don’t open with something you can’t double (around 90%)
  • prioritize making lifts, not cutting weight
  • they also talk about timing your warm up attempts (one warm up every 3 attempts ~ every 3 minutes)
  • and they break down the rules about declaring weights etc.

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