Precision Powerlifting Systems

Sunday training . wanted to try a bench shirt so naturally and couldn’t let him do it alone.

Nick got a touch on day 1 in the shirt. It doesn’t feel like a loose shirt, but it is. Start with something manageable, get technical in it, and get stronger.

We put Dan in a much tighter shirt and he put some runs across the chest plate and Max is just working on being more consistent in the shirt.

We did this after some speed bench, then hit some accessories, ending on single arm farmer’s carries. All in under 90 minutes.

Good thing won her weight class so I have a pic to go with this post. More than half of the PPS team has been on the team for over 3 years, with training ages that are much much higher.

Jess has been on PPS for a little over 4 years. We have added over 100lbs to her total, but did not hit any PRs today.

The longer you stick with this sport, the more difficult it becomes to add to your total. Things you have gotten away with in the past you won’t get away with anymore.

People think coaching is writing programs, but when people are beyond those beginner gains, it becomes more about mentoring.

These last few weeks, Jess and I have had quite a few conversations about what it takes to be better and what people don’t see are the changes she made in the last few weeks.

We decided to treat this as a training day, talk about things to work on, and start stacking those things we need to do to lead to better progress.

I don’t give a f**k about this meet. I care about how Jess has showed up on time, phone down, and trained hard the last month with the group. We are going to build on this starting immediately since recovery from the lighter lifts at the meet shouldn’t be too bad.

Its not about hitting PRs, but becoming a different person. At some point you can’t separate those two things. You need to believe you are capable of bigger things before you can do bigger things.

Smiling and screaming after PRs is all good and great and will get likes and make you happy for a day or two, but if thats what you are here for it will be short lived and you won’t ever reach your full potential.

We tend to only see the highlight reels and the stars on IG, but never the real s**t. The real s**t builds character and it will build the total. You will see that from Jess the next time out. No doubt

MY COACHING PHILOSOPHY

Every coach needs to have a coaching philosophy. This is a blueprint that drives decision making.

My philosophy is about building this pyramid from the foundation up. An example of me using this is when I met with groups in person I realized effort was not where it needed to be so that became a focal point in the training since.

We often perform exercises to identify our personal values (integrity), learning is a critical component with our team meetings and 1-1 calls (student), we need to be resilient and learn how to deal with adversity, and this all centers around self-awareness (mindfulness).

You do those foundational things well and I will guarantee you that you will get a lot out of this sport.

From those foundational pieces we get the next layer. We take our values and turn that into intent, our effort into work capacity, our learning and awareness into technique and focus.

From there we develop a training skill, confidence follows, and we can be distracted and encounter the unexpected and refocus our attention.

Then we become authentic in every setting (poise under pressure), we become leaders to newer lifters and the community, and from there we become great.

The program is about developing these traits within each and every lifter. Its more than sets and reps and leaving comments about technique

I had the pleasure of chatting with a couple of weeks ago. and spoke very highly of him, and I now can see why.

Travis and I had a great discussion about training and having a community. He has a pretty motivating story too that will definitely fire people up.

The dude runs a charity for underprivileged kids and even had the judges overturn a good deadlift that they gave him because he holds himself to a particular standard.

Travis is an elite lifter and human being, hopefully everyone enjoys the conversation as much I did