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Monster Garage Gym/Maroscher Coaching Log: (Log number LXXXVII). 1,025LBS in only …..44 years [HD VIDEO INCLUDED!!!!]

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If it were easy, every big boy under the bar would squat a grand. The reality is, a four-digit-squat in a meet is one of those standards in powerlifting that everyone can agree, is a super-human feet of strength and always will be what separates the men from the boys.

For the last few weeks, inter-mixed with other coaching logs, we have featured Big Steve Brock, training for yet another shot at squatting a grand in a meet. Steve is a product of Ernie Frantz and the original Frantz Health Studio in Aurora, Illinois, and as a teenager he and Ernie and others from the famed team flew over seas where Steve won his very first WPC World Powerlifting Championship some 26 years ago. Not long after, although the lifting continued, the competitions became fewer and farther in-between until they stopped altogether.

Fast forward a couple decades and you have a big strong 40-something walking down the aisles of a Home Depot in Gurnee Illinois and you get a chance meeting with this once world powerlifting warrior and yours truly, a powerlifter that owns a little fortress of solitude called MONSTER GARAGE GYM.

Steve joined the MONSTER GARAGE GYM and began lifting heavier, then training heavier, then he started powerlifting again, then he started powerlifting very heavy again, then powerifting really-really heavy again then he started competing again. Over these last few years Steve took a shot at another WPC title in 2014 but that was not to be. Also, Steve took a number of stabs at a grand including most recently at this year’s ARNOLD, but again, denied.

The reality is, Steve has a lot of years under his belt in the weight room, but very little time on the competitive platform and as Steve can tell you, those two worlds are a universe apart. So all the trial and error that a young powerlifting goes through as they try to navigate the shark infested waters of the competitive scene was happening with Steve, except with Steve being at a much more seasoned age. As a master lifter he made young lifter mistakes.

As master lifters we know there are only so many rounds left in the competition chamber and this is when Steve and his training partner Shaun begin to plan yet again another training program. Also, Steve began to work with Donnie Thompson and some other folks to try to have their meet experience complement Steve’s freakish power in the gym. Squatting a 1,000LBS at the MGG is nothing new to Steve, in fact that is pretty much any Sunday for him, but the meet is where it counts and having come up with Ernie Frantz and training alongside of legendary powerlifters like the late Dawn Reshel-Sharon, Steve knew that the meet is where the lift matters.

As I have always said, if it were easy, everyone would have a 1,000LB squat but even for the big boys that number is a staple in powerlifting and is a separator between the men and the boys. Think this is some easy feet, I implore you to merely do a stand-up with a thousand pounds for an 8 count. Seriously, give that a try and you will understand what I mean….that is if you can even get the bar off the J-hook of your EliteFTS monolift.

Bottom line, like a young lifter Steve was making rookie mistakes at meets, but unlike a younger lifter, Steve worked with guys like Shaun and Donnie and worked the problem and he learned how to open the door and walk inside, rather than run into the door a few hundred times, trying to knock it down.

The take-away from this log is that strength and power are not enough to reach big meet goals.  One has to compete and thus, learn how to compete as entering meets is a form of training itself...and that is your teaser for our upcoming article.....Stay Tuned....

So, this story that began some 26 years ago, and started with…..“Once upon a time at a place called Frantz Gym,” now has an ending to it. And that ending goes like this, “….and after Steve racked his 1025LBS, he looked over to see the white lights, it was a good lift…even from the head judge of the meet…the legend himself, Ernie Frantz.” The End.

Wishing you all the best in your training. Ever onward. Eric Maroscher: Monster Garage Gym

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