Well today, I was strolling out of the weightroom after a good squat and deadlifting session, One of our football coaches walks through the school doors and starts to talk to me. “play any winter sport?” I say no. THen he wants to know if I’m interested in joining a powerlifting team. Because he’s seen me to powerlifting type thing in out school weightroom(which at my school few do).
How I’m really excited and curious on people oppinions and training styles of powerlifting in highschool. I have a few questions too. What are the weightclasses? what are good numbers for a highschool kid, I weigh 160pounds? What kind of routine should I do?
so I need a bench+squat+deadlif of 875 to be a national level highschool powerlifter?
That’s a little out of my league at the moment. But as time goes onI will get stronger.
[quote]zephead4747 wrote:
Well today, I was strolling out of the weightroom after a good squat and deadlifting session, One of our football coaches walks through the school doors and starts to talk to me. “play any winter sport?” I say no. THen he wants to know if I’m interested in joining a powerlifting team. Because he’s seen me to powerlifting type thing in out school weightroom(which at my school few do).
How I’m really excited and curious on people oppinions and training styles of powerlifting in highschool. I have a few questions too. What are the weightclasses? what are good numbers for a highschool kid, I weigh 160pounds? What kind of routine should I do?[/quote]
[quote]zephead4747 wrote:
so I need a bench+squat+deadlif of 875 to be a national level highschool powerlifter?
That’s a little out of my league at the moment. But as time goes onI will get stronger.[/quote]
Not quite. You would need to get that total in a local meet to be nationaly competative. At the local level you may do very well allready.
Break it down to a 350lb. squat and dead with a 175lb. bench and it desn’t look as intimidating, does it?
[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
zephead4747 wrote:
so I need a bench+squat+deadlif of 875 to be a national level highschool powerlifter?
That’s a little out of my league at the moment. But as time goes onI will get stronger.
Not quite. You would need to get that total in a local meet to be nationaly competative. At the local level you may do very well allready.
Break it down to a 350lb. squat and dead with a 175lb. bench and it desn’t look as intimidating, does it?
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Whoa, hold on.
My advice to him would be:
Get 2-3 meets under your belt before you start worrying about anything other than WTF you are doing.
Worry about getting a WI HS State qualifier and then placing at the State meet in WI.
To place top 3 in 2006 he would have had to total >1120 and that is without a bench shirt as they are not allowed in the WI HS federation. (These are also combined results (inclued Frosh, Soph and varsity lifters) so skewed somewhat.
The winning total at 2007 HS Nats for his weight and age category (assuming he would lift Jr. Varsity) was 1146 and that is with a bench shirt.
Getting a National qualifier at the HS level is intentionally relatively easy due to variance in schools access to gear, a desire to encourage rather than discourage lifters etc. and a very poor gauge of overall competitiveness.
[quote]apwsearch wrote:
SkyzykS wrote:
With team sports the type of routine, practice/preparation is usualy determined by the coach.
Give it a shot. The total in your weight class (165) for usapl qualifiers is 875 for freshmen/sophmores.
This is entirely dependent on his age which was not revealed. 14-15 is 875, 16-17 jumps to 995, and 18-19 is 1065.
Again, these are not indicators of what it takes to be competitive, just what it takes to be able to enter the meet.[/quote]
I based that on info gleaned from previous posts. He said he’s a sophmore. I’ve seen people who appear to buff their lift numbers a bit, but never seen anybody buff their grade.
He also appears to have some decent lifts for his training experience. Throw in some formal coaching and he should do very well.
Throw in some formal coaching and he should do very well.
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I wouldn’t wish for anything less. Just trying to do two things.
Point out the caliber of state he is in for HS PL and help him figure out the lay of the land.
Make sure he comes into this with realistic expectations. I’ve coached sophs who were 16 in the second half of the year which is typically when both Teen/Jr’s and HS Nats are scheduled. Their qualifying total goes up significantly.
The bottom line is an 875 total is something to shoot for but won’t get him very far in the broader competitive scope. There are 123# 17 yo girls totaling high 7’s, low 8’s.
It depends on what kind of meets your going to. Around here our powerlifting meets take place at highschools and are mostly made up of football players. Its pretty much just a bunch of kids that play football lifting together lol. So the totals aren’t that serious just kids showing up to lift.