I’ve completed Week One of Izzy’s Intermediate program. Forget everything I’ve written about my training plans lately okay; just assume it was me thinking aloud. Well actually, that’s what the whole blog is. Week one went well; I liked it, I think it shows great promise as something I can grow with and continue the progress I’ve made. I decided to try it after initially stating I wouldn’t because after a week of trying my own programming, I was bored and felt like it was a waste of time. Let’s face it; I don’t know anything about programming for competitive powerlifting, so I need to let the people who do know serve as a guiding light along the path to the platform.
Izzy has certainly earned my respect and has shown some credibility in his ideas, although some of his new YouTube content is bizarrely off topic. I took another look at his programming in PTW 2.0 and felt the Fully Autoregulated Intermediate Program is about right for my current level of condition and recovery capabilities. It’s still a mass produced program, aka a cookie cutter template, but I can’t afford individualized programming, which is really what I want.
I’d love to hire the thinking powerlifting team of coaches at RTS to analyze where I am and where I want to go and plan a path for me to get there, making adjustments along the way as results dictate and removing me from the process. But it’s not money I’m willing to spend. However….
Garrett Blevins, a record holding, allegedly drug free powerlifter, has created an AI Powerlifting coaching system that will individualize programs for a fraction of the cost of hiring a coach. I’ve been considering it since I first heard about it a few weeks ago but blew it off as too good to be true. I figured I’d wait for the reviews to come in, or at least the YouTube comments (which sometimes should just not be read). But the thought of moving from one program to another, or trying to create my own when I know not what I do, just kept gnawing at me. I’ve made progress, I think I can continue to make progress, but I know these mass produced programs aren’t optimal and knowing that something I’m doing isn’t optimal just makes me nuts.
I took another look at the AI and figured, what the hell. He’s giving away the first four week block of training for $1 and there’s no commitment to continue afterwards. If I think it’s worthwhile, I get my second 4-week block for the cost of my monthly phone bill. So if this AI is anything like what Blevins claims it to be, I could have my optimal individualized programming for something I can actually justify paying. I anxiously await it hitting my Inbox.
Meanwhile, Mike T did a great interview on a YouTube channel that will probably not be seen by nearly as many people as would appreciate it. It’s a rolling discussion about his emerging strategies concepts which he lectured about in a recent seminar in Brooklyn. It’s worth sitting through:
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