I’ve witnessed powerlifters perform a wild laundry list of methods to make weight such as saunaing in their cars wearing layers of clothing in 30 degree heat, spit to the point of your tongue bleeding, cycling on an air bike at maximum heart rate, starve and dehydrate themselves for weeks leading into competition, cutting hair to reduce weight just to name a few. For these people making weight is arguably the easiest part of their competition day, performing on the platform after performing a last ditch effort weight cut is where they fall short. It irks me to see lifters waste months of hard work in training to perform blind practices and be beaten by the scale.
Not being in control of your weight weeks and the days of competition shows a lack of care and due diligence for a weight class based sport. Yes, there may be some circumstances and situations where things do not go to plan but missing weight is entirely on you and is unacceptable no matter what lengths or efforts you take to try.
These are the practices that I use as a coach and an athlete to help numerous competitors at the state, national and international level make their weight class. “
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Here is how we got Nate’s squat being from shakes to unstable and rebuilt it back to all time numbers with Ease!
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Some people have asked me what we see on the Jury table, here are the angles that we see on replay and some feedback from the weekend 😌
Main thing is film your training videos from the front and don’t take 40 seconds to set up especially if you are prone to getting a rerack 👍🏽
Less troll attempts / hard misses from junior lifters and their coaches this year too, nice 👍🏽
Not much is said about how you subconsciously communicate to yourself, to yourself.
Improving your body language in training and competition is the one of the easier ways to improve your performance.
People who look like exude confidence when attempting a weight, generally make less mistakes because their body tells their mind that everything will be okay. As a result, these people generally make less mistakes or misgrooves because every action towards and and under the bar is performed with deliberate intention.
Compare this to people who look defeated. These people generally struggle to come back and feel disinterested for the back end of the meet when things don’t go well early.
It’s okay to be nervous, deep down we all are. But at times, especially game day you gotta sometimes fake it til you make it 😂
Here are why push ups are one of my favourite assistance exercises
• You can handle a lot of volume and intensity
• You can build higher muscle endurance to handle more higher intensity bench work loads
• Great muscle builder if you are lagging in upper body mass
• From my experience female athletes benefit greatly from doing push ups
• Can take it to failure safely when doing it higher rep
• Gives you a pressing stimulus without a board on your back
• Great teaching tool to teach you where to push with your hands
• Great warm up for actually benching
205/142.5/225
bless up @dooffin.lifts for coaching n @coach.vinh for shouting a bottle of henny
streetlifting up next?
lowk muscle ups gotta be easier than deadlifts atp idk
2026 APA Open Nationals Post Championship thoughts
• Good to see the lower and higher weight classes have a full podium
• Really interesting to see the strategies of Carpino vs Head to Head vs PR total coming into the day
• There needs to be more people at Nationals, we can’t just have 8 83’s 😭
• The jury was good, but maybe should’ve chilled a bit on some sessions
• Doing preps at the back end of the year can be tough for some, and some people have to add a lot of keys to the total to just make top 12, but then ran out of gas to make it to nationals 🥀which is probably why we saw a higher rate of competition withdrawal
• There should be an entire session of all “B flight lifters” across all weight classes capped to 28 spots and that’s the first session of the competition.
🧠 Lemme know your favourite battles and thoughts on this years nationals
Lemme know your thoughts and some of your favourite battles🧠
What does Output mean to me?
Other than the awesome powerlifting community that I have had the pleasure of being a part of both as a coach and athlete. The core principle that I have taken away over the years is “you get what you put in,” get it cuz input and output.
In powerlifting what happens in training is what generally translates to what happens on the platform. Unlike other sports where there are open variables that you need to react to ie. needing to step away from someone running it straight at you, the variables in powerlifting always stay the same.
Your inputs are the habits you do in training and they can work in both good and bad ways. If you’ve been training hard, staying on top of stress management and recovering well, good inputs normally translate to good outputs on the platform.
And if you’ve chosen to fuck around, you will find out.
Pretty easy right? But the hard part is doing this for a prolonged period of time even when the output or results seem so immediate ⛏️
If you feel like what you’ve been putting IN your training isn’t getting the result YOU want - feel free to send me a DM as I help lifters of all levels get the most OUT of their training 😌
