When should you start wearing a belt? Right away? When you can squat 225lbs? 315lbs? When should you start using a belt in a given training session? 70%? 80%? 90%? In this video, Izzy discusses his opinion on the optimal way to use a belt for powerlifting training.
Next up the Program Review queue is Stephan Korte’s 3×3 routine. There is no eBook or product associated with this program. You find the original articles written by Korte at the DeepSquatter archives. A lot of people have been complaining that these reviews have become unnecessarily long and wordy so we’re going to blast right… Read More »
Our journey across the powerlifting map during this programming review series now takes us to the Coan/Philippi Deadlift Routine. For those of you who are unaware, this is not a eBook or anything that you have to purchase. The Coan Philippi Routine is free and widely distributed across the internet. This is a deadlift only routine… Read More »
The programming review series has taken us all over the place with regards to powerlifting programs, but no stop thus far is more in your face than this one is going to be: today we will review Jamie Lewis’ Destroy the Opposition. For those unfamiliar with Lewis’ ChaosNPain blog (NOT SAFE FOR WORK!), Lewis has… Read More »
Well, our next stop in the programming review series is Brian Carroll’s 10/20/Life. Over the past few weeks, probably a dozen people have requested a review of this program. As such, I couldn’t fail to deliver. 10/20/Life is the next in what I anticipate to be a long string of American powerlifters trying to cash… Read More »
As the programming series heads towards its finale, it is time to take a look at the Bulgarian Method for Powerlifting. To construct this review, I have consulted multiple works, but my primary influences were John Broz, Matthew Perryman, and Damien Pezzutti. In fact, much of the science behind recovery, overtraining, and its relation to… Read More »
Backed by immense popular demand, we’re finally going to sit down and review the revised and updated addition of Jonnie Candito’s 6 Week Strength Program. I was impressed by both the quality and overall philosophy that went into Candito’s Linear Program. As such, I was pretty stoked to take a deeper look into Jonnie’s Six… Read More »
As we move right along in the programming series, the next program we’ll turn our critical eye towards is the Lilliebridge Method. Now, upon review of this program, I have developed a love, hate relationship with it. On the one hand, I don’t think you should ever charge someone $40 for a shoddy 17 page… Read More »
I’ve decided to take a quick one article break from the powerlifting programming series to write about online powerlifting coaching for three reasons: 1) I just need a break from the rather arduous and tedious review process 2) I’ve recently hired Mike Tuchscherer as my online powerlifting coach 3) I’ve been receiving a number of… Read More »
As the programming series heads towards wrap-up, and we review these last couple of methodologies, the next target of our focus is Paul Carter’s Base Building Manual. Base Building is about 80 pages long and, more than a specific program, it contains Paul Carter’s general philosophy and programming tool kit. In other words, this is… Read More »
Smolov is every masochistic lifters favorite program. The program is often advertised as capable of putting 100lbs on your squat in only thirteen weeks. The only thing that exceeds these lofty claims is the actual severity and brutality of the program itself. I don’t think it is an exaggeration to say that more lifters are… Read More »
The time has arrived for us to evaluate the highly popular numbered Sheiko routines. For those of you who are unfamiliar, Boris Sheiko is perhaps the foremost powerlifting coach in Russia at the time of this writing. He has worked with world champions and world record holders such as Andrey Belyaev, Kirill Sarychev, Yuri Fedorenko,… Read More »
The Westside Barbell Method, also known as the “Conjugate Method”, was developed by Louie Simmons. Westside Barbell, the gym, has produced more multiply world record holders than any other single gym in the history of powerlifting. To this day, the Westside Barbell Book of Methods is one of the most interesting works I’ve ever read… Read More »
I am glad I received so many requests to review The Juggernaut Method by Chad Wesley Smith. To be honest, normally, I expect popular programs to be complete garbage. Why? Well, any time you write a cookie cutter template you have to generalize the program to make it work for as many people as possible.… Read More »