What We Saw Wednesday #11: Crumbling Under the Squat | Novice Barbell Athlete Problems

Barbell training is intimidating for a lot of people. New lifters don't have solid technique and they have never handled near max loads. That's why novice lifters should not be testing 1RMs or training with very heavy loads. 

While a relatively light weight may feel challenging to a novice barbell trainee, they don't know what hard feels like. Eventually though, the loads they are using will become relatively challenging.

For some novice trainees, it's just another day in the gym and their mindset, technique, and effort adapts to meet the load on the bar. But for others, heavier weights start to feel scary and they begin to crumble.

As coaches and self-coached barbell trainees, we need to be able to recognize signs of fear versus signs of max effort. 

In this less-than-ten-minute episode, Dr. Rori Alter shares one sign that a novice lifter is scared of the weight versus actually not strong enough. Listen to the episode to learn how she determines fear versus strength issues and how she coached the lifter through it!

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