Weightlifting

Advanced 17-Week Weightlifting Program for Elite International Master of Sport Athletes

Updated: 2026-06-08
 Original: 2024-10-23
Advanced 17-Week Weightlifting Program for Elite International Master of Sport Athletes
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Here’s a sample training program for those lifters who qualified for International Master of Sport status in this article .

To begin this program, you will need to determine goal 100% figures to be achieved at the end of the macrocycle in a competition.  This is a 17-week program and should be employed from twelve weeks before the goal competition. 

Determine goal (100%) weights for the following lifts.  They should be higher than your current best lifts.

  • Snatch
  • Clean &; Jerk
  • Back Squat
  • Front Squat

The snatch 100% should be used for all snatches, power snatches, snatch high pulls, snatch extensions, overhead squats, and snatch deadlifts.

The clean &  jerk 100% should be used for all cleans, power cleans, clean high pulls, clean extensions, clean deadlifts, jerks, power jerks and push presses.

The Back Squat 100% should be used for all back squats.


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