Note 15
Smelling salts on meet day
One inhale before the attempt you actually came for.
Meet day is not the day you discover smelling salts. It is the day you use the bottle you already trust, once, on the attempt that actually matters.
Warm-ups stay quiet
You do not need ammonia inhalants on a bar that is fifty kilos under the opener. Save the reflex for the third attempt, or for the second if the first already went sideways. Frequent hits make the next one feel like air. That is a stupid way to spend a meet.
We already wrote the general powerlifting note. This one is narrower: treat the bottle like chalk. It is there. It is not the program.
What to pack
A multi-use bottle with a cap that closes. Water if you have not activated it yet. Nothing that looks like a pile of ampules in a plastic bag on a platform. Hold it off the nose. One breath. Walk out. If the federation has a rule, follow the rule. The lift is still the lift.
Bardown ships quiet. Splash it when the week starts, not in the ready room.