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Let’s get straight to the point: this article answers all your questions about which supplements work the very best for powerlifting.
Have you ever wondered whether eating healthy for powerlifting even matters? Is micronutrition important for performance on the platform? This article covers all that and more.
Find out how to optimize how often you should eat and what you should eat at various points in the day to maximize performance and body composition as a powerlifter.
While it has certainly been a while since the last installment of the Powerlifting Nutrition Series, the show must go on. Beginning with this article, we’re going to discuss the actual “how” of dieting for powerlifting. In order to do so, you must understand “macronutrients” and the role they play in setting up a powerlifting diet. Now, admittedly, much of this article is geared towards relative beginners to nutrition. If… Read More »
Thus far in the powerlifting nutrition series, we’ve really outed the WHY and the WHAT behind powerlifting nutrition. Now that we’ve got those pieces in place, we need to put the big picture together before we can move on to the “how” of powerlifting nutrition. If you haven’t checked out earlier parts of the series, now would be a good time to do so. The primary purpose of powerlifting… Read More »
Let’s talk about how to cut weight for powerlifting! In the last article in the nutrition series, we discussed when to move up a weight class. If you’ll recall, our rule for deciding what weight class to compete in was: the lowest possible weight class without crossing below our minimum body fat threshold and without cutting more than 5-10% water weight depending on the length of our weigh-ins. … Read More »
For whatever reason, people get very adversarial about their programming plans. As you all know, we just HAVE to have those debates about what is better: 5/3/1 or Cube, Sheiko or Smolov, and PNP vs Starting Strength. This somewhat makes sense. After all, if you’re doing one program, you can’t be doing another. There’s a worthy opportunity cost to discuss. What confounds me the most, though, is that this… Read More »
I’ve been wanting to write this article for a very, very long time. Despite the fact that I spent nearly a month reviewing dozens of programs, various methods of organizing training, and even several periodization schemes, to most of you, that stuff is hardly relevant minutiae. That’s right; I said it. Most discussions about optimal programming amount to nothing more than mental masturbation. If you’d rather watch than… Read More »
Depending on how you view such things, Ed Coan is perhaps the best deadlifter of all-time. His deadlift success is so outstanding that the “Ed Coan Deadlift Program”, which he didn’t even write, is one of the most popular routines of all-time. That said, the thing about Ed’s deadlifts that perhaps sparks more interest than any other is his deadlift stance: he used a very close, “semi-sumo” stance. Of… Read More »
Powerlifting Shoes are a key piece of equipment for any serious powerlifter. As most of us know by now, the average trainee tends to squat a bit more weight if they use Olympic lifting shoes. Now most of us also know that premium brand Oly shoes can cost anywhere from $150-200 and sometimes those are sales prices. Naturally, it doesn’t come as any surprise that a lot of you were… Read More »
In the first articles in the nutrition series, we established that Powerlifting Nutrition primarily serves two purposes: performance enhancement and weight management. In this particular article, we’re going to hone in on the topic of weight management. Previously, we discussed the idea that a lifter is going to be at an advantage when he weighs the maximum amount allowed in his weight class. This is going to both maximize… Read More »
ProgrammingToWin Is Finally Here! Grab a copy now! If you’d rather watch than read: What You Will Get The book features more than 100 pages of discussion on the why and the how of optimally programming your first two to three years in the sport of powerlifting. More than fifty pages of discussion are dedicated to the scientific principles of proper powerlifting programming. No stone is left… Read More »
As detailed in Mike Tuchscherer’s Reactive Training Manual, traditional percentage based programming is highly flawed. The crux of the issue is that most programmers make two fatal assumptions: 1) they assume a lifter’s one rep max is fairly stable from training session to training session and 2) they assume by knowing how much work a lifter has done, that they know what effect the training session has had on them.… Read More »
