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A couple random questions:

At your meet, who loads the weight? Do I gotta bring my own caddy like Happy Gilmore? Same for spots...

I have a lot of younger people at my gyms ask for help when it comes to PLing. I know theres classes and certs to be a regular trainer, is there the same thing to be a PL coach/trainer?
 
They have volunteers that load the plates, usually for spotters too. I think most meets you can have your own spotters though. There's a few strength and conditioning certifications that you can get. Or a certified Starting Strength Coach certification.
 
jaymaximus said:
A couple random questions:

At your meet, who loads the weight? Do I gotta bring my own caddy like Happy Gilmore? Same for spots...

I have a lot of younger people at my gyms ask for help when it comes to PLing. I know theres classes and certs to be a regular trainer, is there the same thing to be a PL coach/trainer?
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For warming up you will load the weights with the people you are around. For the actual meet lifts there are people that load and unload bars for the lifters, those same people spot you.

Even powerlifting is a course and certs you need to have for a gym to actually hire you as a powerlifting coach but just for personal things you can disclose you have no formal education on the matter and aren't certified
 
jaymaximus said:
A couple random questions:

At your meet, who loads the weight? Do I gotta bring my own caddy like Happy Gilmore? Same for spots...

I have a lot of younger people at my gyms ask for help when it comes to PLing. I know theres classes and certs to be a regular trainer, is there the same thing to be a PL coach/trainer?
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What they said. I'll just add that it'll benefit you to get a PT cert like NASM or similar because it'll teach you the science behind it. Its a good foundation and then you can get continued education certs. Westside even has a cert, it's like $800 or so.
 
So I'm looking into some new knee wraps for my next meet. I've narrowed it down to these choices:

Powerbelly Gear | “Felonies” Knee Wraps

Powerbelly Gear | “Death Row” Knee Wraps

https://www.prowriststraps.com/product/strangulator-knee-wraps/ (Strangulator Knee Wraps • APT Pro Lifting Gear)

https://www.prowriststraps.com/product/convict-pro-knee-wraps/ (Convict Pro Knee Wraps • APT Pro Lifting Gear)

I'm leaning very heavily towards the Powerbelly Felonies 2.5m right now. They're currently out of stock of pretty much everything and from what I'm reading they are almost always out of stock. I'm still about five months out, so I can wait a bit.

Anyone have any experience with any of these and how much did you get out of them? My stance is kind of wide, low bar, pretty fast descent. I currently have Slingshot wraps and get around 50lbs out of them. Looking to get a little more for my next meet.

@acoll83 I remember you saying you used Powerbelly wraps, which ones do you have?
 
Perrin Aybara said:
How much do you get out of them and is your squat style similar to mine?
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First time I used the Iron Rebels I got 30-40lbs out of them. That's having used wraps only once before about a year prior, having had a few weeks off lifting beforehand, and not enough experience with wraps to make he most of them so id say you could set get more out of them than I did.

I'm a high bar squatter. Narrow to medium stance and a fast eccentric with explosive concentric.
 
Docd187123 said:
First time I used the Iron Rebels I got 30-40lbs out of them. That's having used wraps only once before about a year prior, having had a few weeks off lifting beforehand, and not enough experience with wraps to make he most of them so id say you could set get more out of them than I did.

I'm a high bar squatter. Narrow to medium stance and a fast eccentric with explosive concentric.
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That's about what I got out of my Slingshot wraps the first time. Wouldn't high bar, narrow stance breaking at the knees be able to utilize more out of the wrap because of more knee flexion stretching the wrap compared to low bar, wide stance breaking at the hip with toes pointed out more?

Guys like us that drop and explode fast want more rebound than stopping power, correct? I hear these two terms describing the wraps a lot and I'm not sure which one is more appropriate for each style of descent.

Sorry for the long questions, Doc. I've been pouring over forums and websites trying to get a better understanding of this stuff.
 
Perrin Aybara said:
That's about what I got out of my Slingshot wraps the first time. Wouldn't high bar, narrow stance breaking at the knees be able to utilize more out of the wrap because of more knee flexion stretching the wrap compared to low bar, wide stance breaking at the hip with toes pointed out more?

Guys like us that drop and explode fast want more rebound than stopping power, correct? I hear these two terms describing the wraps a lot and I'm not sure which one is more appropriate for each style of descent.

Sorry for the long questions, Doc. I've been pouring over forums and websites trying to get a better understanding of this stuff.
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Typically a wide stance squatter is not an explosive one and they'll get more out of wraps geared for stopping power.

I'm a more narrow stanced squatter and explode up so I like rebound rather than stopping power as I also tend to go lower than parallel by a few inches minimum.
 
Docd187123 said:
Typically a wide stance squatter is not an explosive one and they'll get more out of wraps geared for stopping power.

I'm a more narrow stanced squatter and explode up so I like rebound rather than stopping power as I also tend to go lower than parallel by a few inches minimum.
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I guess I'm somewhere between medium and wide. Wider than shoulder width, but not all the way to each side of the rack. I tend to go deeper than I need to as well. Maybe something somewhere in the middle in terms of rebound and stopping power would be my best bet.
 
Perrin Aybara said:
I guess I'm somewhere between medium and wide. Wider than shoulder width, but not all the way to each side of the rack. I tend to go deeper than I need to as well. Maybe something somewhere in the middle in terms of rebound and stopping power would be my best bet.
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Iron rebel's website, if you're interested in their products, has charts to compare the different qualities of their wraps to each other.
 
Perrin Aybara said:
So I'm looking into some new knee wraps for my next meet. I've narrowed it down to these choices:

Powerbelly Gear | “Felonies” Knee Wraps

Powerbelly Gear | “Death Row” Knee Wraps

https://www.prowriststraps.com/product/strangulator-knee-wraps/ (Strangulator Knee Wraps • APT Pro Lifting Gear)

https://www.prowriststraps.com/product/convict-pro-knee-wraps/ (Convict Pro Knee Wraps • APT Pro Lifting Gear)

I'm leaning very heavily towards the Powerbelly Felonies 2.5m right now. They're currently out of stock of pretty much everything and from what I'm reading they are almost always out of stock. I'm still about five months out, so I can wait a bit.

Anyone have any experience with any of these and how much did you get out of them? My stance is kind of wide, low bar, pretty fast descent. I currently have Slingshot wraps and get around 50lbs out of them. Looking to get a little more for my next meet.

@acoll83 I remember you saying you used Powerbelly wraps, which ones do you have?
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I use the death rows.. my unwrapped max is 500 and I'll be going for 600 in 5 weeks. I wrap it tight as a motherfucker, until it hurts.
 
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