Practice!?!? We Talking about Practice!?!? : How Approaching my training like football practice made me a better Weightlifter.

For the vast majority of my weightlifting career , I approached my training like ...well training . Like I trained for bodybuilding , general fitness , or even Crossfit. Around a year ago I realized my approach wasn't working the way I wanted it to . I decided to change my way of thinking about training for weightlifting. 

After putting some serious thought about my athletic background ,  I thought about what weightlifting training really was. I realized that more than traditional training , training for weightlifting was more like a sports practice. My approach had been wrong this entire time! I made the conscious decision to treat my training like I treated practices for most of my life . 

With a quick google search I looked up traditional structure of a football practice to see how I could apply it to my own training and this is what I found:

1. Warm-up & Stretching : Self Explanatory 
2. Review of New Team Plays and/or Conditioning: Looking over the workout for the day to make sure I understood each movement and its purpose. 
3. Individual Techniques by Position: Specific warm up drills to improve qualities of each lift I am working on. 
4. Game Preparation and Team Drills: Working on the Actual lifts ( Snatch and Clean and jerk ) 
5. Group Work: Specific Strength work for weightlifting 
6. Special Teams: Auxiliary work 
7. Cool-Down: Extra Mobility work, Core work, Stretching. 

This was a total game changer for me as an athlete. I had been playing sports my whole life and it took me 4 years to realized I should approach this sport like a sport. Better late than never . 

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