The Hub PT Olympic Weightlifting club in High River, Alberta is hosting Masters Weightlifting Seminar on Saturday, February 29th.
Ages 30+
$35 for CMWFHC members
$50 for non-CMWFHC
members.
Led by our coaches, Lisa
Szabon-Smith and Jennifer Hamilton
(both NCCP Level 1
Certified).
Lisa has been coaching a team of primarily masters weightlifting athletes for the last 4 years and has also worked closely with “older” clients in private and small group training sessions.
Jennifer has been supporting our
team’s masters athletes
through assisting Lisa with coaching and programming.
Lisa and Jennifer have both competed
many times in local competitions, including the annual
Gordon Kay Masters competition held
by the Alberta Weightlifting Association (AWA), as we are both
masters weightlifting athletes as well.
Lisa has a large breadth of national level competitive experience in Bobsleigh, and Jennifer recently competed at the USAW’s Masters World Cup (this was our team’s first experience with an international weightlifting competition).
The Hub PT is located in High River,
Alberta, approximately 30 minutes south of Calgary where
there is a growing weightlifting
community, especially in the master’s age categories.
We are an easily manageable drive to get to, as many people commute daily between High River and Calgary for work. As well, athletes are willing to travel from Calgary to train at our facility with our coaches.
We are also 1.5 hours from Lethbridge and 2.5 hours from Medicine Hat. An overnight stay at one of our 3 major hotels might be recommended after a long day learning all about Masters weightlifting.
The content and structure of the
seminar would be as follows:
10:00 - 10:05 Introductions
and Emergency Information
10:05 - 10:25 Warm-Up - Full
body and dynamic
10:30 - 11:30 Snatch
technique and considerations for mobility
limitations broken
down technical pieces encompassing all phases of the lift,
putting it all together for
full-lift, reviewing elements
necessary for a “good lift” in competition, as well as elements
that will result in a “no
lift”
11:30 - 11:45 Break, Snack,
& Presentation - programming considerations for masters: volume,
intensity, frequency, competition preparation, recovery, etc.
11:45 - 12:30 Clean
technique and considerations for mobility
limitations broken
down technical pieces encompassing all phases of the lift
reviewing elements necessary to
continue on to the jerk in competition, as well as
elements that will result in a “no
lift” during the clean portion
12:30 - 12:45 Break &
Presentation
nutrition for masters (presented by
Lisa - PN-L1 in training)
12:30 - 1:00 Jerk technique
and consideration for mobility limitations
broken down technical pieces from
getting set after the clean to recovery putting together the clean & jerk as a
full-lift
reviewing elements necessary for a
“good lift” in competition, as well as elements that
will result in a “no
lift”
1:00 - 1:45 Lunch to rest
and prepare for a mock competition
During this time, our team member
Jose who is a Level 4 Technical Official in-training
will join us to review important
information for competition rules significant to the
athletes
1:45 - 3:45 Mock
Competition including weigh-ins, declared opening weights,
warm-up, introductions, timing between attempts, a technical official as one referee,
and judged lifts
we would not follow exact timing of
competition with 2-hours between weigh-ins and introductions, but would follow timing as close
as possible between attempts some teachable moments about rules may be taken
during the mock competition in
order that all the athletes can
learn the rules that are pertinent to them
3:45 - 4:00 Review,
Questions & Closing