After about 1.5 years with my coach, which I’m absulotly aprriciate, I’m thinking about getting a new coach, highest level I can get, to start rising my numbers and being more competitive.
I would like to hear some of you experience and what coaches do you reccomend on? I know the well know. Joey Flexx who I really try to connect with but he seems to not answer me on mail(maybe he want only higher level lifters?), RTS which I really like their method and took their classes, but I do prefer more personal training than a big team(same for TSA), Brandan Tietz who I really like his method too but I don’t know his experience in making world class lifters(Not that I’m even close to that, but it is more attractive to me to work with someone such as Joey, who work with John hack, Russel, etc).
Josh Bryant would be my first pick. Stan Efferding but he is probably the most expensive one out there. Sheiko but price and might not have availability. JTS/Chad Wesley Smith has different packages at different prices.
I take a look at your training log every now and then and your training looks interesting, to say the least. Does Greg use 5th set or a modified version of 5th set or what?
@chris_ottawa it’s 5th Set except we don’t have personalised micros and mesos; and we all do the same supplemental and assistance work. That’s because you just sign on and slot in with the week’s programming.
Its a good start, but at some point you will have to learn to program on your own. That’s why I don’t like programs but prefer methods. For example IMO Juggernaut and Cube are programs, and Westside/conjugate/concurrent and 5/3/1 are methods. The Methods allow for infinite customization whereas programs are best for beginners who need structure and instruction.
I’m not a beginner and know how to program my own program. I actually DO program for my clients which some of them compete.
But yet, I believe in learning from someone with more knowledge and let them lead you.
That’s why Im so picky about my coach.
I would like to hear opinions about these options.
Joey Flexx(Who I really want but it seems like he doesnt answer to mails), JP Cauchi, David Woolson, Brendan Tietz, Evan Chaffey.
Anyone tried one of those?
Another options is trying to get Mike T, but I’m afraid he has too many clients and it wont be personlized to the point I want.
I’m not a beginner and know how to program my own program. I actually DO program for my clients which some of them compete.
But yet, I believe in learning from someone with more knowledge and let them lead you.
That’s why Im so picky about my coach.
I would like to hear opinions about these options.
Joey Flexx(Who I really want but it seems like he doesnt answer to mails), JP Cauchi, David Woolson, Brendan Tietz, Evan Chaffey.
Anyone tried one of those?
Another options is trying to get Mike T, but I’m afraid he has too many clients and it wont be personlized to the point I want.
Is the extremely short rest periods part of Panora’s program or is that just how you like to train? I have never seen anyone get through so much work so fast.
Those little horrors are Greg’s. It just suits me, so most days all it does is leave me sucking wind and cursing him for a few minutes. I realised towards the end of last year that I can do just fine with shorter rests between sets, so by the time I signed on with Greg I was already getting through things pretty fast. His five and 10 seconds breaks were kind of like a logical progression from that. I also like how I can get a decent amount done and usually be out in well under 90 minutes.
Bill Kazmeier said he used to train like that, minimal rest between sets. That sort of training doesn’t really appeal to me personally, but there is obviously something to it. I use short controlled rest periods with submaximal work, depending on where in the training cycle and how heavy it will be anywhere between 45 seconds to 2 minutes, but your 5 and 10 sec. rests make me sound lazy.
RTS has fully customized coaching available, but it’s expensive and you likely aren’t actually going to work with Mike. Some of his other coaches don’t impress me, but Paul Steinman and Ross Leppala seem good though.
The only one of the other guys you mentioned that I have even heard of is JP Cauchi, and he is a young kid. Maybe he is a decent coach, but if I was going to pay for coaching then I would want someone with more experience. These days almost every powerlifter is a coach. I can coach you if you pay me too. Go with someone who has a good track record, don’t look at their lifts but look at who they are coaching and what sort of progress those people are making. Some people judge a coach by his lifts, but Boris Sheiko is the most successful coach in PL history and I’m not aware of him ever competing and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t even lift.
I don’t see any contradiction here, there are times that longer rest periods are appropriate but training with short rest periods is also a valid method. One is not right and the other wrong, just different ways of approaching training. And unless I’m doing submaximal work I don’t use short rest periods, usually in the range of 2-5 minutes depending on what I’m doing.
You got a point about JP Cauchi.
If I cant being coached by Mike RTS isn’t a option for me…
Of couse, I’m looking for who they are coaching and not what they are lifting.
Joey Flexx has some high level athlete, JP Cauchi too.
Still looking for info about David Woolson, Brendan Tietz, Evan Chaffey.
Someone else I’ve heard good feedback on is Bill McCarthy.