World Masters PL - Lessons

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I just finished competing in the IPF World Masters PL competition. Lots of

fun - for those interested in a report I posted one on MFW. This forum is

more on training, so I don't want to waste your time with a social type of

post on what happened. However, when I go to a seminar I always try to

bring back two things I can implement to improve whatever I'm going to the

seminar for. This was like a seminar for me, so here they are.

1. I need to establish more emotional control. I didn't sleep a wink - not

even 15 minutes - the night before and it adversely effected my

performance. I had a near optimum level of arousal at the meet itself, but

not the night before. Even with drinking and eating some carbs I dropped 7

lbs overnight.

2. I need to optimize leverage and technique. Watching all the great

lifters made me acutely aware of how they had all managed to discover an

optimal technique for their bodies which maximized how they were able to

exhibit strength through the PL's. My best lift was the one i had spent the

most time on finding a technique for my body - the squat. In three years it

has gone from my worst lift to my best. I need to spend the same type of

analysis and be willing to take a step back in the bench and deadlift to

get the same level of performance from them.

Very interesting meet!

Hobman

Saskatoon, Canada