The Reactive Training Systems Podcast

In this episode, your host, RTS Coach, and founder, Mike Tuchscherer is joined by RTS coaches Mark Robb and John Garafano to discuss when someone should consider changing weight classes. 

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The topic for today is pulling the slack out of the bar in the deadlift. Getting tighter in the deadlift is deadlifting strength. It’s the limiting factor for most lifters and you can't ever have too much of it.    In the episode we'll talk about what tightness in the deadlift actually means, some heuristics for its assessment, a lot of different coaching cues that we use, exercise selections to build tightness in the deadlift as well as ways of organising your training to support some of these technical goals.   Enjoy!

Welcome back to the Reactive Training Systems podcast.  In today’s episode Mike Tuchscherer and John Garafano talk to RTS Coach and World Champion Mark Robb about the mindset tactics that he's adopted over his 40 years of training experience, to become the kind of lifter who's still setting lifetime PRs into his 60’s. Because injuries can be such a significant derailment to our progress, Mark shares his experience with one injury in particular, which after decades of experience under the bar ended up keeping him out of the gym for almost six years. This conversation centres around how to adjust goals after being injured, how to reframe some of these scenarios, and not so much about fixing the injury but about how to cope with it mentally. We're going to talk about long term versus short term and the techniques and tactics that we found to be effective as coaches and as athletes and that we’ve used for accepting our circumstances.  We'll also talk about the value of perspective, about mentorship, overshooting, versus undershooting, and quite a few other things. We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back to the RTS podcast. Today, RTS coaches John Garafano and Mike Tuchscherer are talking to Shane Martin of Smart Lifts.  Shane is a bench presser and a powerlifter. He's also a coach, who also happens to be president of the Canadian powerlifting, the largest Federation in Canada.  Shane is someone who has a reputation for being a technician in powerlifting equipment. If you're not familiar, then this podcast would be a great way to understand a little bit more of that aspect of our sport. Shane has helped a lot of lifters develop their technical knowledge develop their competency in powerlifting equipment. And because of his track record and his reputation, a while back, we asked Shane, if he would build a course for us about equipped lifting and it's turned out really fantastic. It's available now on the reactive Training Systems website, to those who are interested. If you are a lifter who's been interested in dabbling in the side of the sport, or if you're a coach that's interested in coaching equipped lifters and maybe you don't have a whole lot of experience with equipped lifting yourself, we definitely recommend that you check it out. https://store.reactivetrainingsystems.com/collections/classroom/products/equipped-powerlifting-thriving-in-single-ply

Learn about the process of starting with Emerging Strategies in training programs, including watching the lecture on YouTube and taking the course. Discover the importance of continual adjustment and individualization in programming for optimal performance. Explore flexible powerlifting strategies, progressive training techniques, and principles for accessory work.