Here’s a preview of one of the sections in my newest e-book, Seek and Destroy: A Powerlifter’s Guide to Identifying Weak Points and Improving Technique. It’s available for free to my mailing list subscribers, so sign up here to download your copy (and get free training content delivered straight to your inbox every week). If …
“Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.”Albert Einstein I try to keep things simple when I coach. Lifting can be intimidating and this anxiety can interfere with the learning process. The worst thing I can do is muck it up with lots of complicated words and explanations. Everyone learns differently, but over …
I am a firm believer in autoregulation and teaching my lifters how to choose the weight on the bar as accurately as possible based on what I’m asking them to do. This is why we use RPE-based training almost exclusively. In its purest form, RPE (rate of perceived exertion) is an educated guess on what …
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Coaching powerlifters on meet day has come to be one of my favorite things in the world. I take tremendous pride in watching my lifters lay it all on the line, channeling months (or even years) of effort into one single day. The drama, the attempt selection strategy, and ultimately, the satisfaction once the meet …
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Last week, I covered five of the most important lessons I’ve learned in a decade of coaching. This week, I’ll unveil the next five. You can read the full article here, but to recap: Care More Ask More Questions Overcomplicate Before You Simplify Be a Good Lifter Set High Standards Let’s start the second half, …
This fall marks the 10-year anniversary of my official coaching career. In 2012, I accepted my first paid coaching internship during graduate school at Xceleration Sports Training on Long Island. Although I’d “coached” some friends and teammates during undergrad, I consider this my coaching anniversary because it was the first time I’d actually gotten paid …
At Bonvec Strength, we’re incredibly proud to be able to train complete beginners, national-level powerlifters and everyone else in between under the same roof. Not everyone follows the exact same workouts, does the same exercises or lifts the same weights, but they train similarly enough that our coaches can effectively train them at the same …
A training program is only as good as a lifter’s ability to stick to it. As a coach who’s working with multiple people at once AND training people online, I’m constantly searching for ways that a training program can “coach itself” so my lifters can execute their training without me having to watch every rep …
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The fun part about strength training is that there’s no finish line. No matter how good you get, you can always get better – whatever better means to you. Stronger, faster, more muscular, and in the case of this article, more masterful in your technique. Powerlifting isn’t like a video game where you beat the …
Beware the coach who relies on methods and not principles. A coach who relies on methods and not principles will change their entire approach each time a shiny new object appears. It could be a piece of equipment, something an influential lifter said or did, or a seminar they attended. On Monday morning, their entire …
