How To Coach Yourself For Powerlifting - The Complete Guide

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In this video, he says novices need an overhead Tricep Ext because bench doesn’t hit the long head, but in his novice program, he says there’s no direct tricep work because novices get enough Tricep work from pushes. Can someone explain this discrepancy?

Hello there, can someone explain a part of the video again to me? I dont really get that part with the cumulative reps being equal to number of sets for hypertrophic effect.
I get that a 5x4 is almost the same as a 3x7 / 3x12 and so on. But how heavy needs the 5x4 to be to count. Cuz im sure as hell that just doing a 5x4 at an rpe2 wouldn't really be stimulative. So is there kind of a percentage based cutoff like at 80% perhaps or even lower?

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if it works, don't change anything!
for the past 7 months i have done a simple 5x5 for S B D twice a week and each lift went up lots (+140kg total) i did minimal hypertrophy because i didn't have the work capacity. i hit a wall with bench so i tripled the volume (+18 sets of 10/wk plus heavy singles) and dropped the average 5x5 weight i did by 5kg/10lb to aid recovery. my squat and deadlift continue to skyrocket 10kg a month, but getting to the point where squats are impeding my deadlifts now.
don't change your programme if it is working, change it when it's not and before you hit the wall.

That new look you've got at 18 mins is very cool.

I have watched this video numerous times now and I think I’m closing in on 50% absorption of the information 😂

Can someone dumb this down I don’t understand shit I’m a dumbass

is it me or it's essentially the opposite of the 6 week program?
can we maybe get an updated version?

Holy shit this was too much knowledge for a beginner i don't even understand half of the things he's talking about I'll watch it in 0.75x later

Do you need to have a year plus into general strength and hypertrophy training before starting powerlifting type training or is it viable for beginners in the gym aswell?

Dude you should do a face reveal

Can you create a video about selecting warm-up reps.

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I'm late to the party but this is pure gold. Thank you!!!

I am a lifting enthusiast and I had an injury that forced me to quit lifting for many years (The most depressing and darkest years of my life for I didn't have an understanding of how pain worked). Then I decided to lift regardless of the pain then I learned about back pain recovery stuffs mostly from your channel and the Barbell medicine Team. Then I opted for rehab coaching from BBM crew which improved my self-efficacy a lot got me back to lifting fairly decent numbers recently. But then I realized that I want to really go through the entire process of lifting, so I am planning to compete in a powerlifting meet in the near future ( I am 27 as of now and want to do it before I Turn 30), not for the sake of competing but for the sake of going through the complete process of what it feels to lift under pressure especially during competitions.

Your videos are really helpful for persons like me who really want to get into powerlifting. Thank you so much for these really valuable videos, Jonnie. Wish me good luck for my future meets. Once again Thank you, Jonnie Candito.

Thanks bro, needed this vid

Bro. This is so on point and the point of finding rep ranges that you respond well to spoke so much to me.

Hey i got a question i use 8,6,4,3,2,1,4,12 on the bench and i go up ten pounds every set. But i want know what u think about how long should i stay on this??

I can’t lie dude. if I was just starting out in powerlifting, this video would make me wanna stray away from it.

So lucky to have this sort of analysis depth and knowledge in the powerlifting circle

your workouts are LIMITED to three hours in the offseason??? my god

What’s wrong with jug AI ?

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Pure art. And very reasonable train of thought on top of your experience. Fantastic video.

This guys a legend. Telling you to download free programs instead of pushing his bullshit that won’t work on you. Respect again bro

Regarding the repeating cycles segment, is what i got from it correct: Always monitor how you feel, during the entire cycle, last week, did you hit PR, how did PR day feel like etc and make changes according to that? Start by adjusting the taper if only the last week feels bad, if the entire cycle felt bad try different rep ranges, (but still enough total load for hypertrophy), then as a last resort volume increase?

So how should we be structuring a training cycle? Should we start with high volume and taper down with higher intensity towards the end of the cycle? Or should we just follow one of the free programs from lift vault? Lots of scientific jargon but not much on how to actually implement them into our training, just some constructive feedback

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Can you please allow adding subtitles, I'd like to add Turkish subtitles and other people can add their own language subtitles, as well.

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Any idea if this can be applied to upper body gymnastics style training, i.e. chins, dips. ring muscle ups? I've had to move away from squatting, deadlifting and lower body training in general and have no choice but to leave powerlifting/weightlifting behind. I feel like the next best style of training I would enjoy besides powerlifting is gymnastics style strength, since it's more goal orientated than bodybuilding. Obviously since this is a very niche style of training it's practically impossible to find a coach for it. Are these principles applicable to bodyweight? What would you advise on programming (splits, volume) since it's entirely upper body style training, unlike powerlifting which is a mixture of upper and lower body?

but like 6x6 squats :(

I don't understand what he's trying to imply in the deadlift speed section in terms of frequency/intensity/load?? Just train DL in % rather than RPE or specific reps/sets?

Question for you, Jonnie - can you do a video on weekly singles year-round? This seems to be a huge contention between various notable coaches at high levels and it would be great to see someone do a video on the pros/cons of weekly singles, the purpose of them, any literature to back up the benefits of touching singles weekly, etc.

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Very, VERY interesting video. The point that resonated with me the most (I have to go back and redigest some of the technical elements) was the fact that you have to believe you're smart in order to coach yourself. After a recent back injury, my own sense of confidence has taken a beating, and now, as I'm coming back, I'm finding it harder than I did before my injury (which was not related to my programming style but rather to just plain carelessness) to get pumped up about what I'm doing. So your point was very timely and well-received. Thank you JC