My first full-length e-book, Bench Like A Beast, is now available for purchase! It’s a culmination of everything I’ve learned about the bench press over my 10-year lifting and coaching career. I’m psyched to finally share it with the world because I know that if you’re like so many lifters out there, fighting to improve …
Here’s part 2 of the “10 Keys to a Big Bench Press” chapter from Bench Like A Beast. You can read part 1 here. It’s just a quick bite of over 90 pages of content from the book. Enjoy! 10 Keys to a Big Bench Press (Continued) #6: Follow a Medium/Low/High Schedule No matter how …
I’m PSYCHED to release Bench Like A Beast to the world on September 19! To hold you over til the release, here’s a little excerpt from one of the opening sections: 10 Keys to a Big Bench Press This book is as much about training philosophy as it is a training program. There are a …
It’s official: on September 19, I’ll be releasing my first-ever full length product, Bench Like A Beast. It’s a 10-week bench press specialization program designed to add as much strength as possible to your 1-rep max bench. One of our test lifters added a whopping 40 pounds to his bench press in 10 weeks, which …
We’re super excited to have world-class powerlifter and coach Mike Tuchscherer of Reactive Training Systems on this week’s episode of The Strength House Podcast. We’ve looked up to Mike and admired his work for years, and he dropped some serious knowledge about: How to build an individualized training program using RPE The importance of meticulously …
The Strength House Podcast – Episode 20 ft. Mike Tuchscherer Read More »
What if I told you that to become a better powerlifter, you should spend less time building muscle and take more time to build confidence? If you’ve been a powerlifter for any appreciable time, you’ve likely competed and fell short of your goals. It’s also likely that at some point during that subpar meet, your confidence …
I never thought I’d have to tell people to keep their head on the bench during the bench press. That is, until it became a thing. Now every powerlifting meet I go to (besides USAPL and IPF where head lifting isn’t allowed), I see lots of lifters pulling their head off the bench to watch the …
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The bench press likes to stall hard and fast more than any of the other big barbell lifts. There’s less muscle mass involved during the bench compared to the squat or deadlift, so there’s less room for technical error and less ability to “muscle” through heavy weights. A bench press plateau can take months or …
Power development for powerlifters sounds pretty redundant. I mean, they’ve got “power” in their name so they must be pretty powerful, right? Actually, powerlifters have the most deceiving title in all of strength sports. Strongmen are indeed strong and weightlifters do indeed lift weights, but by definition, powerlifters are NOT powerful. That’s because power requires …
Power Development for Powerlifters: 3 Underutilized Methods Read More »
I used to think the bench press lockout was something raw lifters didn’t need to train. If you lifted raw and you missed at lockout, it was because you messed up something in your setup. Or so I thought. While the geared lifters of the late 90’s and early 2000’s were preaching nothing but triceps to …
