How to Time Warm-ups in Weightlifting Competition - Counting Attempts

Warming up for Olympic weightlifting competition requires carefully timing your lifts to prepare you to open on the platform when called.

This video provides the basics of how to count attempts and time warm-ups in competition.

Competition video by William Breault

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[liftingweights]

Quoting my Gurkha Sargent "The enemy WILL not wait for you to get Ready. Be Ready"

I think Its better to train at "long" intervals after warmups (sugars stabilized to cooling-point lifts) and then even gradually extend that interval to "colder" lifts

AND at short 2 min intervals (attempts may come due to missed lifts OR openers of the next lifter are higher than your top lift etc) OR lifters below you may drop out (injuries etc)

Then a strategy on meet day of Early Warmup to be ready for short interval opener, and maybe lighter long-interval warmups for the longer wait until opener

[TheMarinerfan]

I recently competed at an event where I had 17 lifts between 1st and 2nd attempt snatches, can you talk about what you would do in this situation. And then 8 lifts between 2-3rd

[TheJHrevolution]

Greg, this is too long. My attention span is only 60seconds

[hulee]

Can you teach me how to overheadpress ?