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Episode 91 (5/4/22) 
 Voting Results:  Round 4 (Final Voting)
Round 4:  Dawn   58votes/75%
                      Cameron 19votes/25%

The next Top 5 list?
Top 5 Karaoke Songs
Top 5 best beers
Top 5 TV Show Intro Songs

NGB
Deadlines: Monday, June 13, 9-5pm - Las Vegas
- Athletes Rep (4)/Honorary Awards/EC Positions

 PL Situation 
The technical comptroller at Nationals stops you as you're about to walk to the platform for your third attempt bench. They tell you that your wrist wraps are illegally wrapped and that they need to be removed/fixed before you can step on the platform. You have 20 seconds left on the clock. What do you do?

 New Lifter Tip
Extra long "press" calls on Bench are typically the lifter's fault. A press call is only given when the bar is motionless on the chest. The key word is "motionless".  Agree or Disagree?

Team Rohr Training Weekend

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Episode 90 (4/27/22) 

Cindi Jaeger and Amy Pancake, State Referees, start off by talking what made them decide to become a referee and their experiences with such.
They also discuss their experiences with in-person coaching and virtual coaching and how it differs.

Voting Results:  Round 3
Dawn will face Cameron for the Win in Top 5 Movie Soundtracks
Final Voting will take place on Sunday, May 1.

 PL Situation 
There are 14 lifters in your flight. When you go to start warming up, you see that the warm-up options are 2 squat stands that are not real stable and one ER Rack with Kilo Plates to warmup on. There are 10 other lifters around the ER Rack. Where do you warm up?

New Lifter Tip
Train with referee commands.  You have to wait for them in a meet, therefore practice waiting for them in training. Agree or disagree?

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Episode 89 (4/20/22) 

Congrats to Coach James Vang on the birth of his daughter on Monday, April 18! Ellastasia

Meet Results:
Amber Riley - USA Powerlifting Capital City Barbell Championships
6/9 Day
92.5 kg squat (PR Squat)/55 kg bench (tied PR Bench)/135 kg deadlift (PR Deadlift & Florida State Record)/282.5 kg total (PR Total)
Broke record of Allison Garden

Voting Results:  Round 2
Final Four Voting will take place on Sunday, April 24.

Why did Primetime change to Raw only?
Josh discusses his thoughts and the reasoning behind the decision

PL Situation 
After weigh-ins, while warming up, you look at the scoreboard and your forecasted total is 2.5kg behind the forecasted 1st place total. Your last squat warmup felt really light and there are still 2 minutes left to change your squat opener. Should you increase your opening squat so that your total is projected 1st after openers?

New Lifter Tip
Do not choose a coach based solely on their social media presence.  Good marketing does not make you a good powerlifting coach.  On the flip side, being a good marketer does not make you a bad powerlifting coach. Do your homework and be thorough.   

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Episode 87 (4/6/22)
 
Q&A:
What is your worst meet day experience?
When can we have a beardless Rohr back?
Josh Rohr doesn’t mind being beardless in this post but refuses to shave. When will the madness end?

Top 5 Movie Soundtracks - #1 Choice

PL Situation 
Nationals are in 10 weeks. Before you can sign up, you get a call from your sister. There is a family reunion on the same day you would lift at Nationals. The city/state where the family reunion is being held has a local meet the day after. Many of your family have never seen you compete.  Do you do Nationals or the local meet after the Family Reunion?

New LifterTip
Have your warm-up attempts written out before you start warming up. Discuss them with your handler/coach ahead of time. This will allow for near perfect timing of your warmups and significantly less stressful warmup experience that doesn't feel rushed. Agree or Disagree?

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Episode 86 (3/30/22) 

PL Situation 
On a scale of 1-10 (10 being very important), how important do you feel volunteering is?

Importance of Volunteering
Team Members that have recently volunteered
Katey Dodge/Ashley Hanna/Stacie Metcalfe
Kati Jones/ James Vang/Josh Rohr
David Dix/Chris Elmore/Wesley Toler/Amy Pancake

At what point does a coach push too hard?

Top 5 Movie Soundtracks: #2

New Lifter Tip:
Shin Length Socks for deadlift: Make it a habit to put them on as soon as you finish your 3rd attempt bench. Too many people go out for their first deadlift without having them on and time out. If they are already on, you can simply pull them up if you forget.
Agree or Disagree?

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Episode 85 (3/23/22) 

Everglades summary

Military Nationals
Xavier Richardson - 6/9 - 5kg PR Deadlift 
Spotting/Loading:   2 Platforms: 
1: James Vang & Wesley Toler
2: Josh Rohr, Chris Elmore, David Dix
3: Boards: Ashley Hanna & Amy Pancake
4: Handling: Stacie Metcalfe

Top 5 Movie Soundtracks:  #3

PL Situation 
Training has not been going well recently. You are getting more and more frustrated and thinking about quitting. You find yourself more irritable than normal because of this as well. You really don't want to quit, but you don't want to work so hard for no progress. What do you do?

New Lifter Tip 
Make sure you take your walk-out on squat attempts seriously.  It is not light weight

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Episode 84 (3/16/22) - Sam Calhoun

Introductions: Sam Calhoun

• 3x USAPL National Champion
• 2x IPF Worlds Silver Medalist
• Currently holds 67.5 kg American Record Total
• Coaches in person at the Iron Asylum in Virginia and does Online Coaching 

https://www.instagram.com/sam.s.calhoun/

https://samstrong500.com/

Sam’s Original Post
Thoughts

• Listener submitted scenario:
  •  I have a  wry experienced lifter (long time barbell and wrestling athlete) who has competed twice before.
  • 10 minutes prior to his session the lifter mis- placed his cell phone and has some anxiety  about being to find it and stay in contact with his wife. We search the warm up room and all of our gear bags but to no avail. We press forward with warm ups and head back to the tunnel to await our first squat. 
  • As a coach I tell him, we will find the phone  By all accounts he was primed and ready physically to go off for a big meet. 
  • Unfortunately what happened next wrecked the day. One of the National Level referees comes back into the tunnel and goes on a rant about how no white lights were being given out for squats this morning and how no lifter is getting remotely close to parallel much less to adequate depth and warns us (3 lifters out) that if we have questionable depth, we better make sure we push it further. 
  • As a coach I hear that as some guy giving advice, but for the lifter that was a major point of concern and he began to question his depth which ultimately led to him altering his form  creating an 0/3 bomb on squats due to compromised form and a lost cell phone. This then translated to bench where the mental disconnect is continued and we went 0/3. 
  • My question ultimately comes in two forms, how do you handle this situation as 1.) An Athlete/Competitor and 2.) As a Coach. .
• #PLSituation: The meet director of a meet you are competing in decides to bring in a band instead of a playlist.  They ask each lifter for input of which band to bring in. It can be any band from any era. What band would you choose to play at your meet and why? 
• 
  
• #NewLifterTip 
  • You've

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Episode 83 (3/9/22)

• Arnold Review:
  • Friday Session 1 
    • Gretchen Patsios (0/3) 
  • Friday Session 2
    • Alicia Webb - 9/9, all meet PR’s.  Silver medal
    • Jo House - 9/9, gold medal
  • Friday Session 3 
  • Stacie Metcalfe - 9/9, bronze medal
  • Katey Dodge - 6/9,  gold medal
  • Amy Pancake - 7/9, gold medal
  • Chris Elmore - 6/9, bronze medal
• Saturday Grand Prix
  • James Vang - 8/9, gold medal
• Sunday Session 1 
  • Allison Garden - 6/9, gold medal
• Sunday Squat Challenge (10:00am Start)
  • Amy Pancake - 6 reps at 2x bodyweight, gold medal
• #4 for Top 5 Movie Soundtracks

PL Situation
Your 2nd squat gets turned down 2-1. You want to go to the jury to protest the lift but you also know that you only have 60 seconds to turn in your next attempt. The jury table is in the opposite direction of the scoring table and if you go to the jury, you likely will miss that 60 second window.   What do you do?

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Episode 81 (2/23/22)

Georgia State Meet Recap

PL Situation  
A friend asks what you want for your birthday. You tell them a 46 Titan Katana S/S Bench Shirt. On your birthday, as that same friend looks on in excitement, you open up a gift to find a Titan F6 Bench Shirt.
What do you do?

New Lifter Tip 
Wait for the Referee Commands!
Squat: "Squat" / "Rack"
Bench: "Start" / "Press" / "Rack"
Deadlift: "Down"
We've posted this before, but people are still forgetting to wait. 

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Episode 80 (2/16/22)

Richard Seymour  - Elected to Pro FB HOF

Club Affiliation Clarification: P. 2 of the USA Powerlifting Rulebook (under “club/team affiliation”)
Each lifter may represent only one local/state team and/or one national championship team of his or her choice during the registration year. 
Lifters may be members of both a national championship team and a local/state team at the same time. 
A lifter may not change team affiliations in the middle of the registration year. 
Changes in club/team affiliations may only be made during the registration for the next year.

Xavier Richardson - Did his first meet on Saturday to qualify for Military Nationals in Atlanta, GA
        9/9/155 Squat (341)/105 Bench (231)/212.5 Deadlift (468)
        472.5 Total (1042) in the 82.5 kg Class

Georgia State Meet Preview:
Saturday AM Session (8:00am start)
Serena Thomas/Gretchen Patsios/Ashley Hanna/April Gadsby/Olivia Vilella/
Jenna Weinstein/Amy Pancake/Alicia Webb
Saturday PM Session (3pm Start)
Dmitry Lampe/Wesley Toler
Sunday AM Session (8:00am Start)
Chris Weitzen/Nathan Booker/William Ruff/
Matthew Martin/Ballard Childs/Rex Polly/Jenson Taylor
Sunday PM Session (3:00pm Start)
John Lampe/Cordell Estrada

Next Top 5 Movie Soundtracks?
Top 5 Movie Soundtracks - Deadline Extended!
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PLSituation
Your PR Squat is 195 kg, Current State Record is 200 kg
Your PR Bench is 127.5 kg Current State Record is 132.5 kg
Your PR Deadlift is 240 kg, Current State Record is 250 kg.
The current state record total is 575 kg. The qualifying total for Nationals is 570 kg.
Your goals/priorities are 1st to qualify for Nationals and 2nd to break as many state records as possible. Training has been going well. You feel like you have added ~5 kg to each of your lifts since last meet. You opened at 177.5 kg and just squatted 190 kg for your 2nd attempt. It moved well, but felt heavier than expected. What do you put on for your 3rd attempt Squat and why?

NewLifterTip
Attend Early Equipment Check (if offered).
Not every meet offers this, but many meets will offer early equipment check the night before the meet. This gives you an opportunity to get your rack heights, check your bodyweight on the official meet scale (not actually weigh-in) and get all of your equipment checked by th

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Episode 78 (2/2/22) - Cindi Jaeger
Cindi Jaeger talks about her latest meet at the WI State Championships
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PL Situation
             You plan to compete at Nationals on Friday in Full Power. You also have a good chance to win Bench Nationals on Wednesday. Full Power is your priority, but you really want to do bench only as well to try and earn both your Pro Card and Pro Bench Card.
Do you only enter one event or both and why?

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Episode 76 (1/19/22)

Introductions

• PLSituation  
  • You coach a team of 20 lifters, competing at the State Meet. There is no limit to how many lifters you can list on the official team roster because only the team's 10 best scores will make up the total team points. If the team roster has less than 10 lifters, a single lifter can score points twice by being in 2 divisions (Open and Masters or Full Power and Bench Only). If a team has 10 or more lifters, a single lifter can only score once. Mathematically, it would be detrimental to the team points to list more than your top 9 lifters, entered in two divisions. While beneficial to the team points, this would mean leaving over half of your athletes off of the official team roster. Official rosters will be listed on the event website, in the lifters guide and in the state meet program.
    • Do you include all of your team members or only the top 9?
• NewLifterTip
  • Squat Depth:
    • You are low enough when the top surface of the legs at the hip joint are lower than the top of the knees. It has nothing to do with hamstrings being parallel to the ground or any other factor. The only thing that matters are the two points mentioned above. Many newer lifters think they are squatting deep enough when they are actually high.
      • Agree or Disagree?
• Lara reflects on the life on friend and teammate Selena Hesse
• Josh and Lara reflect on lessons they've learned over the years about balancing life and powerlifting and what is important to them

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Episode 74 (1/5/22) - Siraj Saeed - Truborn Rookie Rumble

• Introductions :
  
  
• Siraj Saeed:
  • Owner of Truborn Strong
  • Truborn Rookie Rumble Preview:
    • Sunday, Jan 9 @ No Excuses Crossfit in Suwanee, GA
• Q&A: (listener submitted questions)
  • Do you think lifters that aren’t elects or pro will get lost in the USAPL shuffle?
• New Georgia Meets:
  • 4/30/22 - USA Powerlifting Georgia Ladies of Iron - Lawrenceville, GA
  •  5/21/22 - USA Powerlifting Savannah Showdown - Savannah, GA
  • 7/30/22 - USA Powerlifting Atlanta Open - Atlanta, GA
• PLSituation 
  • You are coaching a brand new lifter in their first meet. They are 8/8 on the day. You call 150 kg for their 3rd deadlift, which would be 5 kg under their training PR. The primary goal was to go 9/9 and have a great first meet experience. Looking at the scoreboard, if you bump up to 157.5 kg, that would be enough to earn the bronze medal out of 10 lifters in the weight class.
    • Do you make a change or stay at 150 kg?
• NewLifterTip 
  • Yes, it's a new year but that "new year feel" will fade. The good news is every single day is a new day. Don't lose sight of that opportunity!

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Episode 73 (12/29/21) - Jeremy Hartman vs Jenna Weinstein

Round 5 Voting Championship (Top 5 Hype Songs):
Jeremy Hartman vs Jenna Weinstein

Next Contest Ideas
Listener submission ideas to @plballadspodcast

2021 Highlights

2022 Goals

PL Situation

New Lifter Tip

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Episode 72 (12/22/21)

Round 4 Voting Results for Top 5 Hype Songs
        Jeremy Hartman vs Mike Hafenbrack
        Stacie Metcalfe vs Jenna Weinstein
       (Winners will give their case for why their playlist is best)
                   Final Voting on Sunday, December 26

Previous PL Situation/ Current PL Situation

New Lifter Tip

a7 has sponsored the top 5 hype song competition

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• Listen to the Top 5 Driving Songs on Spotify!
  
  
  
  
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The Powerlifting & Power Ballads Podcast is co-hosted by Josh Rohr and Lara Sturm and sponsored by Team Rohr Powerlifting - for all of your powerlifting coaching and meet day handling needs. The podcast covers Georgia Powerlifting information as well as National Powerlifting news. One of our more popular segments is music, specifically 80’s music and Power Ballads.

Episode 70 (12/8/21) 

   Introductions :

   Savannah Winter Classic
          Jenna Weinstein (7/9) 1st in 57kg class (best lifter)
         Will Ruff (7/9) 1st in 83kg class and PR Bench
          Rodney Alexander (SC) / (7/9) 1st in 66kg class 

Virginia Pro Series Highlights
           Saturday/Sunday
                 Alicia Webb (Ashley Hanna)
                       3rd overall female
                       American Record Squat 429
                       PR Bench 264
                      1st in Masters Pro Series for Female M2 (50 points)

Round 2 Voting (Top 5 Hype Songs)
            Spotify Playlist
           https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H5jkHaPK3qqJ2Y5SVskzj?si=be039393faa144c5

PL Situation
New Lifter Tip

Voting happens every Sunday! @plballadspodcast

A7 is sponsor for this contest and winner will get $50 gift certificate

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• Listen to the Top 5 Driving Songs on Spotify!
  
  
  
  
• More Information about the Podcast and Team Rohr Powerlifting: https://solo.to/plballadspodcast
  
  
• Get the Team Rohr Training App!

The Powerlifting & Power Ballads Podcast is co-hosted by Josh Rohr and Lara Sturm and sponsored by Team Rohr Powerlifting - for all of your powerlifting coaching and meet day handling needs. The podcast covers Georgia Powerlifting information as well as National Powerlifting news. One of our more popular segments is music, specifically 80’s music and Power Ballads.

• Round 1 Voting (Top 5 Hype Songs)
• Guest: Wade Johnson
• PL Situation
• New Lifter Tip

Spotify Playlist for Hype Songs
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H5jkHaPK3qqJ2Y5SVskzj?si=84412465b25146a1

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• Follow/Direct Message us @PLBalladsPodcast on Instagram & Facebook or email us at PLBalladsPodcast@gmail.com
  
  
• Listen to the Top 5 Driving Songs on Spotify!
  
  
• More Information about the Podcast and Team Rohr Powerlifting: https://solo.to/plballadspodcast
  
  
• Get the Team Rohr Training App!

The Powerlifting & Power Ballads Podcast is co-hosted by Josh Rohr and Lara Sturm and sponsored by Team Rohr Powerlifting - for all of your powerlifting coaching and meet day handling needs. The podcast covers Georgia Powerlifting information as well as National Powerlifting news. One of our more popular segments is music, specifically 80’s music and Power Ballads.

Episode 68 (11/24/21) 

• Introductions 
• The #1 Hype Song List!
• Voting for Favorite List on Sunday November 28
• Spotify Playlist with All the Songs!
  • https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2H5jkHaPK3qqJ2Y5SVskzj?si=deb6637eb58d4918
• #PLSituation 
• #NewLifterTip 

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• Listen to the Top 5 Driving Songs on Spotify!
  
  
  
  
• More Information about the Podcast and Team Rohr Powerlifting: https://solo.to/plballadspodcast
  
  
• Get the Team Rohr Training App!

The Powerlifting & Power Ballads Podcast is co-hosted by Josh Rohr and Lara Sturm and sponsored by Team Rohr Powerlifting - for all of your powerlifting coaching and meet day handling needs. The podcast covers Georgia Powerlifting information as well as National Powerlifting news. One of our more popular segments is music, specifically 80’s music and Power Ballads.

• USA Powerlifting New (Old) Weight Classes + 1 
• Pro-Series
• Q&A?
• Top 5 Hype Songs #2
•             Lara Sturm (@strengthmatters63k)
•              #2 Korn - Blind
•            Josh Rohr (@jrohr83)
•             #2 Young Jeezy - Lose my Mind
•             Charlie Jackson (@charlie.the.fat)
•              #2 Nanowar of Steel - Valhalleluja 
•             Jim Battenfield (@jimbattenfield)
•              #2 Eminem - Til’ I Collapse
•              Cindi Jaeger (@iamsinkaye)
•               #2 Prince - Let's Go Crazy
•             Chris Peterson (@cpeter48)
•              #2 Young Jeezy - Put on
•             Wade Johnson (@bigwade800)
•             #2 Slipknot - Psychosocial
•             Chris Elmore (@elmorereality)
•             #2 Pantera - Becoming
•             Mike Hafenbrack (@haf_lift)
•             #2 Pantera - Walk
•             Hannah Keith (@hannah.keith_)
•             #2 Megan Thee Stallion - Circles
•             Shana White (@shana.v.white)
•             #2 BTS - Dynamite
•            Jeremy Hartman (@hartmanperformance)
•            #2 Rob Zombie - Dragula
•            Eric Corderio (@eccbeast)
•            #2 Slayer - Raining Blood
•             Ben Green (@bgree.bpg)
•             #2 Nothing More - Do you really want it?
•            Stephen Fortenberry (@stevo410beast)
•           #2 Hatebreed - Looking down the Barrel of Today
•            Stacie Metcalfe (@metcalfe13)
•            #2 ACDC - Thunderstruck
•              Amy Pancake (@amyjpancake)
•            #2 Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
•            Megan Powell (@justpeachymegs)
•           #2 Lil John - In the Pit (Non Explicit)
•            Marshall Powell (@powellifting)
•            #2 I Prevail - Hurricane
•           Jenna Weinstein (@justcallme_jenna)
•           #2 System of a Down - Chop Suey
•           Gretchen Patsios (@firehorse_incarnata)
•           #2 Slash - World on Fire
•           Kate

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• Follow/Direct Message us @PLBalladsPodcast on Instagram & Facebook or email us at PLBalladsPodcast@gmail.com
  
  
  
• Listen to the Top 5 Driving Songs on Spotify!
  
  
  
  
• More Information about the Podcast and Team Rohr Powerlifting: https://solo.to/plballadspodcast
  
  
• Get the Team Rohr Training App!

The Powerlifting & Power Ballads Podcast is co-hosted by Josh Rohr and Lara Sturm and sponsored by Team Rohr Powerlifting - for all of your powerlifting coaching and meet day handling needs. The podcast covers Georgia Powerlifting information as well as National Powerlifting news. One of our more popular segments is music, specifically 80’s music and Power Ballads.