It also has the added benefit of making my girls and their friends laugh. Speed, speed, speed, but with a caution. Make every lift. Don t miss lifts. Stay within yourself.
Perfect practice makes perfect.
Missing lifts can damage you, true, but more important is that missing lifts costs you a lot of energy. Simply dealing with the miss is energy consuming, but worse is the mental effort in psyching yourself up for the lift. Second, focusing on speed and keeping the weights in a manageable range will also save your nervous energy for meets. True, there is no nervous energy research, but anyone who has gone to the well too often can tell you the downside of overtraining. The Master lifter can afford very little error in the direction of overtraining.