Powerlifting Game Day Coaching: A Complete Guide to Competition Day Performance

There is no shortage of material on how to train for powerlifting. What is considerably harder to find is guidance on what to do when you actually get to the competition.Game Day Coaching is written for the coach standing behind the platform. It covers everything that happens between the weigh-in and the final deadlift: attempt selection, warmup timing, tactical positioning in the deadlift, managing your athlete's energy and focus across a full competition day, and the edge cases that separate coaches who have been to World Championships from coaches who haven't.Inside you will find a complete framework for attempt selection across all three lifts, a detailed breakdown of deadlift tactics including placeholder attempts, going last, head-to-head scenarios and the inversion principle, guidance on managing athlete psychology and arousal levels throughout the day, warmup timing methodology with a worked example, and rules mastery covering jury appeals, the same-bodyweight tiebreaker, chip strategy, and loading errors.Written by Oscar Björk, national team coach for Sweden for eleven years, with 34 international competitions including IPF World and European Championships. This is the guide he wished had existed when he started coaching.For coaches working at national and international level, coaches just starting out, and serious competitive lifters who handle their own attempt selection. Read more