[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
Solid.
Side note, why is it so damn quiet at that meet? Play some music and get psyched up people, that dude just threw around some monster weight![/quote]
Because it’s a small meet in Minot North Dakota held inside of a YMCA while other people are still working out in the background.
[quote]T3hPwnisher wrote:
[quote]DixiesFinest wrote:
Solid.
Side note, why is it so damn quiet at that meet? Play some music and get psyched up people, that dude just threw around some monster weight![/quote]
Because it’s a small meet in Minot North Dakota held inside of a YMCA while other people are still working out in the background.
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Hmm that would partially explain it.
For some reason, my edit didn’t go through, but basically, we’re guests in their house. We also keep control of the eccentric on the deadlift since we’re on the second floor. Gary Glock, the meet director, puts on a great show with the resources available to him, but it’s a small town. We get like 18 people to compete.
Mike was a great enough guy to come to the meet and put on a great show. Rather than worry about music, I just appreciated what he did for us.
I can’t believe he deadlifted 850. That was amazing. He’s already an elite lifter but still looks like he’ll be able to progress even further in the sport. Does anyone know how much he weighed at this competition?
[quote]Rudy2401 wrote:
I think this dude is ridiculously strong…
I also think his approach to training is sick! But if I ever had to calculate that many numbers and RPE and be so scientific I think I would get bored as hell. [/quote]
For us nerds, it’s incredibly exciting to calculate all these numbers and figure out periodization models and the like 
I write out training programs to my team mates as practice for my own approach to training for fun… because I have no life
[quote]Ghost16 wrote:
I can’t believe he deadlifted 850. That was amazing. He’s already an elite lifter but still looks like he’ll be able to progress even further in the sport. Does anyone know how much he weighed at this competition? [/quote]
He was a guest lifter, so I don’t know if he weighed in.
[quote]T3hPwnisher wrote:
[quote]Ghost16 wrote:
I can’t believe he deadlifted 850. That was amazing. He’s already an elite lifter but still looks like he’ll be able to progress even further in the sport. Does anyone know how much he weighed at this competition? [/quote]
He was a guest lifter, so I don’t know if he weighed in.[/quote]
Damn I really wanted to know. He doesn’t look like he’s anything more than 240.
[quote]Ghost16 wrote:
[quote]T3hPwnisher wrote:
[quote]Ghost16 wrote:
I can’t believe he deadlifted 850. That was amazing. He’s already an elite lifter but still looks like he’ll be able to progress even further in the sport. Does anyone know how much he weighed at this competition? [/quote]
He was a guest lifter, so I don’t know if he weighed in.[/quote]
Damn I really wanted to know. He doesn’t look like he’s anything more than 240. [/quote]
He’s a 275er
In that case he must be pretty tall. I would love to see him get his bench into the mid-500’s. That would be fucking brutal.
I saw Mike at Nationals this past summer. He doesn’t look that big in pictures, but he’s just really well proportioned.
I hear ya about programming for buddies and stuff. I have a few training partners that rely on me for programming as well. While this is not ideal because I would rather people forge their own path, I would probably program myself into a hole and out of the gym with this type of stuff.
On a side note, this dudes training videos on youtube are ridiculous. One of the strongest lifters out there today!
[quote]T3hPwnisher wrote:
For some reason, my edit didn’t go through, but basically, we’re guests in their house. We also keep control of the eccentric on the deadlift since we’re on the second floor. Gary Glock, the meet director, puts on a great show with the resources available to him, but it’s a small town. We get like 18 people to compete.
Mike was a great enough guy to come to the meet and put on a great show. Rather than worry about music, I just appreciated what he did for us.[/quote]
Alright, I gotcha. I didnt know about the venue yall were in.
[quote]detazathoth wrote:
[quote]Rudy2401 wrote:
I think this dude is ridiculously strong…
I also think his approach to training is sick! But if I ever had to calculate that many numbers and RPE and be so scientific I think I would get bored as hell. [/quote]
For us nerds, it’s incredibly exciting to calculate all these numbers and figure out periodization models and the like
I write out training programs to my team mates as practice for my own approach to training for fun… because I have no life[/quote]
I get a nerdgasm everytime I read his manual.
I saw him compete at USAPL Raw Nationals last summer and it was awesome to see him compete. He is like a machine. I have been following Mike’s career over the past several years and what’s even more impressive to me, is the weight he handles training alone. He is also just 26 years old.
[quote]Phillip Wylie wrote:
I saw him compete at USAPL Raw Nationals last summer and it was awesome to see him compete. He is like a machine. I have been following Mike’s career over the past several years and what’s even more impressive to me, is the weight he handles training alone. He is also just 26 years old. [/quote]
Yea his training is ridiculous. No music, loud training partners, or ammonia. I don’t know how he handles some much weight so often either. I guess TRAC is really that good.
Before squatting he has a strange breathing pattern, or at least it’s different to anything I’ve seen before.
Does anyone what the reason is for this or if he has explained it anywhere?
He comments on his breathing while setting up to pull at around 3:24
that is some crazy band tension there - 3 or 4 medium bands haha
[quote]Rudy2401 wrote:
I think this dude is ridiculously strong…
I also think his approach to training is sick! But if I ever had to calculate that many numbers and RPE and be so scientific I think I would get bored as hell. [/quote]
RTS is pretty simple really, judging RPEs becomes natural pretty quickly and there’s not really any number crunching involved. You can add on extra layers of complexity at the advanced level but RTS is pretty basic at its heart, just a method for training by feel.
Mike doesn’t really set a cycle out in generic template for people just starting out. I think he expects people to work out what protocols they need to use for themselves, which has led to the impression that it’s really complicated when it’s not.
Awesome! Such methodical lifting.