The Warm-Up Clock and Controlled Chaos 
			
			
		
		
 			
        
	When meet day arrives, you’ll be faced with variables you don’t see in the gym. At Monster Garage Gym, we’ve developed a way to control the most stressful of these variables: the clock.
    		
		
		        				
    		    		
    		
    		
		    
								Mistakes by a First Time Lifter
			
			
		
		
 			
        
	This article is about a lifter who I have talked with over the internet a few times. I won’t mention any names or places, but he knows who I’m talking about. I watched a disaster happen at his first meet. There are a number of things that he and his group could have done differently to help him through his
    		
		
		        				
    		    		
    		
    		
		    
								Choosing and Training Your Openers
			
			
		
		
 			
        
	We get a lot of questions regarding how to choose openers for powerlifting meets and there are a lot of ways to look at this.
Since most veteran powerlifters have their own way of doing things and will probably never read this article, we are not going to address them.  What I am going to do is address the lifter
    		
		











