Training Awareness: Phone in Pocket on Platform

17 Jan 2020 · 1 min

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In this brief training‑awareness video, the speaker warns lifters that keeping a phone (or any item) in a pocket while performing Olympic lifts on the platform can lead to costly damage. Because the bar is often dropped onto the thighs during lifts, a phone in a pocket may crack or break. The speaker does not forbid listening to music, but stresses that during the actual lift the pocket should be empty. The recommended practice is to remove all items, place the phone in a cubby before the lift, and retrieve it after the workout.

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In today's training awareness, we need to be aware of having our phones in our pockets when we're on the platform. Now I'm not here to say you should never have your phones in your pockets. Some people like to listen to music when they're lifting, but when we're on the platform, we need to be sure that we don't have anything in our pockets because when we're doing the Olympic lifts, oftentimes we're dropping the bar on our thighs. And the last thing we want to do is have a really nice clean and then set it down, realize that we just, that we just cracked our phone because we had something in our pockets. So when you're on the platform, just take everything out of your pockets, leave the phone in the cubby, and then get it after your workout.