So I’m at university and I’ve been trying to start a power lifting club up with them, but every time I ask them its either a no reply or a plain no. They also fail to give reasons, dicks. Anyways I was competing at a meet on the Sunday just pass and the promoter said that in the UK this is not uncommon that a lot of unis either don’t allow one or have one but don’t want people to know about it.
He said to just to set one up independently which after a year of being dicked about I’m now planning to do. So i was wondering if any you lovely people have any tips for me also if anybody here lives in the Dundee/Tayside area or there abouts, in Scotland and is interested in the idea feel free to pm me.
Thanks
The great thing about a powerlifting club is that at most universities they’ve already provided you the equipment via the student rec center or workout facility. Most clubs have to pay for equipment and travel fees and get minimal help from the school. Just start a club and get people going. You may not getting any funds but as you get more competitive and it becomes bigger the school may start matching donations or giving some stipend yearly. There is nothing stopping you from making one.
[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:
The great thing about a powerlifting club is that at most universities they’ve already provided you the equipment via the student rec center or workout facility. Most clubs have to pay for equipment and travel fees and get minimal help from the school. Just start a club and get people going. You may not getting any funds but as you get more competitive and it becomes bigger the school may start matching donations or giving some stipend yearly. There is nothing stopping you from making one.[/quote]
Cheers man, yeah I was planning that the club would just use their gym as you’re right everything needed is there and its open to students and public alike.
I coach a powerlifting team. When you set up a team you want to think about a few things.
What is the purpose of it - Mission statement
Who can join the team and who decides if they can join it
Who can remove members from the team and why might they be removed
What do they get for joining the team
What do they need to do to join the team
Are there requirements to meet for staying on the team
For example, I am the coach so I decide who is on the team or not. For joining my team they get a Team Tshirt, they get to compete with the team at comps, and they get coaching advice for me. I charge a nominal fee (100 a year - helps separate out people that are serious or not) which covers Tshirts and team entry fees and shit. They need to lift in 1 comp within 2 years after joining the team and they need to go and support at least half of the comps we go to. Some stuff you can do case by case. It doesn’t have to be super formal at first, we started as just 2-3 guys all lifting at the same time but people see that energy and the results and they want to be a part of it and then it grows. Now I have like 30 people on the team with about half of them being very serious. You might want to set up some way for team members to communicate for example I have a closed FB page for everybody. Anyway those are ideas meant to inspire you not discourage you, it can be a lot of fun and going to meets wearing the Tshirts and hanging out and supporting each other is the best part of it, plus it helps ensure you will always have a spotter in the gym.
The Club may have a team (ours doesn’t) Our club is just a collection of lifters not necessarilty compeeting anymore (older) or competed yet (younger). We usually organise an annual club championship (Wilks points based) and allow guests to join in (obviously if they’re not members they cant win the Club title). This helps promote PL and gives nervy types an ‘safe’ intro to competition. We also allow people to just SQ or Bench (usually more of these!) or just DL or any combo (less excuse based on injuries then).
Each member puts in about 5GBP a month to build up a fund that pays the fuel / vehicle hire to see the British Champs, and the Club will pay an entry fee to any lifter qualifying for a national competition (they choose which, single lift, equipped, unequipped etc). Has its ups & downs but generally a great thing to do if there’s more than about 4-5 of you.
Thanks so much you guys, some awesome advice there seriously. Tim I think I might have a sit down with myself and answer those questions. This is great I have the summer now to prepare thanks a again.
Actually one other question, one of the big problems I have is getting people interested I currently train by myself, I do have friends who occasionally come with but they’re all about getting ripped and staying ripped not strength or even size and staying ripped and so do their own thing. Also the sport itself is completely unknown and I’ve tried explaining it to people but they just give blank stares and decline to even give it a try. Maybe I’m saying the wrong things, any tips for that.
If its in your home you prolyl dont wanna do this but something similar to craigslist/kijiji works well. We’ve had a couple of our members come from an add we placed a while ago, this was before we got kicked out of our commercial gym and I moved everything into my basement