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Registered Rustler
Willem contacted me for training advice and has now made the Dutch IPF national team! Congratulations to Willem. He wrote this up about his experience:
Timeframe: 4 weeks
Achievements
Bench: +7.5kg paused, +10kg TnG
Squat: 3RM from 162.5kg to 170kg
Deadlift: Form improved significantly
Bodyweight: stayed the same
Diet: significantly more energy to train long/recovered abnormally fast due to Alex' dietary advice
Overall experiences:
I approached Alex to help me prepare for a powerlifting meet (which is now off due to federation problems, hence only having worked for four weeks with Alex), having done powerlifitng competitions before but really struggling to gain strength with my own programming skills. Although I achieved significant strength and technique gains, in those four weeks my main 'gains' were mentally. Dealing with Alex' programming forcused mainly on my weak points, both techniqually and psychologically. I was suddenly doings things I never did before and lifting way outside of my comfort zone. I found that I always disregarded volume over intensity and was afraid to push myself to do an extra warm-up set, back-off set or top set. By forcing me to do more volume and address my weak spots more, I experienced a complete change in mindset and mental approach to lifting. The first week was Dante's inferno, the second week was hell, week three was more volume AND more intensity, but suddenly seemed like a walk in the park.
Alex was always reachable for straightforward and fast answers to any questions or form vids. Working with Alex meant experiencing a healthy dose of "harden the fuck up" and some tough loving to boot, which was perfect for me as I am one of those typical "feel sorry for yourself"-lifters. I'd definitely recommend working with Alex' as a competitive, yet still intermediate lifter.
Timeframe: 4 weeks
Achievements
Bench: +7.5kg paused, +10kg TnG
Squat: 3RM from 162.5kg to 170kg
Deadlift: Form improved significantly
Bodyweight: stayed the same
Diet: significantly more energy to train long/recovered abnormally fast due to Alex' dietary advice
Overall experiences:
I approached Alex to help me prepare for a powerlifting meet (which is now off due to federation problems, hence only having worked for four weeks with Alex), having done powerlifitng competitions before but really struggling to gain strength with my own programming skills. Although I achieved significant strength and technique gains, in those four weeks my main 'gains' were mentally. Dealing with Alex' programming forcused mainly on my weak points, both techniqually and psychologically. I was suddenly doings things I never did before and lifting way outside of my comfort zone. I found that I always disregarded volume over intensity and was afraid to push myself to do an extra warm-up set, back-off set or top set. By forcing me to do more volume and address my weak spots more, I experienced a complete change in mindset and mental approach to lifting. The first week was Dante's inferno, the second week was hell, week three was more volume AND more intensity, but suddenly seemed like a walk in the park.
Alex was always reachable for straightforward and fast answers to any questions or form vids. Working with Alex meant experiencing a healthy dose of "harden the fuck up" and some tough loving to boot, which was perfect for me as I am one of those typical "feel sorry for yourself"-lifters. I'd definitely recommend working with Alex' as a competitive, yet still intermediate lifter.