Hayden Pritchard

Hayden works as a Senior Lecturer at UCOL in New Zealand. His research focuses on strength and power development. He is a coach for the Palmerston North Weightlifting Club.

Run Sheets and Counting Attempts

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I remember when I received my first run sheet for a weightlifting competition. As a former powerlifter, this strange document made no sense to me. Why did the attempts count matter? What did all of this mean? In powerlifting, all athletes perform their first attempts one after the other, with the weight on the bar …

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Don’t Fear Rest

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As lifters, missing training sessions can play havoc in our minds. Training is part of what we do, part of what makes our day complete. So when we are out of town with no access to training facilities, or the gym closes and we can’t get our session in, it can seem like a big …

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