23 Feb LCS looking ahead and a brief rant

Thankfully it’s not as bad as it looks.  I promise.  Normal movements and I don’t even notice it.  Only unless it’s stretched hard or under load do I start to notice it.  The plan for me is to heal up and roll into a pre-meet raw cycle.  Going look at a raw meet for grin and giggles.

I have a couple lifters qualified for APF equipped Nationals in Orlando at the end of May.  I’ll start planning on getting them ready for that.

For the rest of the crowd we’re going to roll into a bit more intense offseason with the idea of having, what I call, an in-house fun day.  We’ll train as if we’re doing a meet but I let the lifters pick 2 out of the 3 lifts and test them.  Only 2.  Off season isn’t the time to do anything stupid.

For a little rant:

1. People that program hop
2. People that go so far off program

Both of these go hand in hand.  With the rise of social media, everybody wants to be relevant.  It’s boring (so they think) to post RPE 7 level training.  It’s boring to do the same thing week after week.  But you know what’s worse than boring: losing, getting hurt, staying stagnant.  Sure rotate through programs and stay where you are.  Keep posting those rep “PRs” when in all reality it translates to shit over on the platform.  Keep straying off the path to do the things you want and forget about all the things you need to be doing.  Get those likes on social media to feed your precious ego.  Blame the coach and/or the program when you aren’t getting the results you want but when it’s really your fault because you can’t stick to the plan.  Results don’t come daily.  They come after weeks/months of doing the things that you suck at and don’t feel like posting because they’re not “cool”.

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Will Kuenzel is the owner of Lowcountry Strength (www.LowcountryStrength.com) in Charleston, SC. Will started his athletic endeavors as a pole vault; finishing up his collegiate career with a best vault of 16’9” at a whopping 160lbs. He the track and field world to pursue bodybuilding, his first show in 2005, he won 1st place in Men’s Novice as a middle weight. One year later he took 2nd as a Men’s Junior heavy weight. Since 2007 he has been a competitive powerlifter and totaling elite as a 220lber. His best lifts in multiply equipment are a 710lbs squat, a 605lbs bench press, a 615lbs deadlift and a 1930 total. In 2008 Will started Lowcountry Strength out of his garage. Since then it has moved into a 16,000 sq/ft facility and shares space with a mixed martial arts studio. With all disciplines of powerlifting, strongman, MMA, jiu jitsu and other sports in the Charleston area getting trained under one roof, Will heads up the strength and conditioning for a wide variety of athletes and clients.

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