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Monster Garage Gym/Maroscher Coaching Log: (Log number CVIII). LOOKING BACK ON YOUR YEAR OF TRAINING

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For “the herd,” the New Year brings them loping into the health club in droves with the hopes of, this time, sticking to it. But for you as a competitive powerlifter, the New Year is a time where you must critically examine a years’ worth of collective training programs and authentically assess where you are and where you want to be. It is only after sifting through the nuances that you can best develop your plan and take that plan through to fruition.

We are all creatures of habit and routine can be good. However, being in a routine vs being in a rut can often times be just a shade away from one another. As humans, we use measurement to give our lives some perspective and the measurement of time is one way that we do this.

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As 2016 has ended and 2017 has just begun, this means that 365 days’ worth of training has occurred and it is time to assess where you were at the start of 2016 with your strength goals, your strength numbers and your training routine. With a new year, the smart, competitive powerlifter looks critically at where they were and where they are now and they do a gap analysis to determine what happened or did not happen to get them where they wanted to be or did not get to at years end.

If you are a powerlifter trapped having to train in a corporate gym environment, you see this all the time. The New Year has arrived and with it are all the new yoga pant wearers and gym bro types who have made the decision to get in shape. For those newbies, I wish them all the best as being healthy is critical for living a fulfilling life. For most unfortunately, they fail to plan and more often than not, they merely show up at the facility, find an empty machine and go through the motions. You can see this with crystal clarity because of where you are in your lifting life. But just as you can clearly see their shortcomings, you must, with this New Year, look at your own lifting and take the time to break down the data you have collected over the year and in a way, start again.

Although we are always training, just training is not enough to help you become the best lifter you can be, as the training needs to be the means to an end, but not just an end, the desired end. Your numbers all went up, but did they reach the levels you wanted them reach? If yes, why? If not, why? Training is the fun part, disaggregating the data, not so much. But, like cardio (kar-dee-oh), it has to be done.

As you pull apart the numbers with this New Year, celebrate the successes of the past year, but also take the time to continue what works, perhaps tweak it to get even more out of it if that is possible, and when dumping what did not work, ask first why it didn’t work. Was the short coming the program, or was it lack of rest or the proper nutrition or is your recovery not as aggressive as your training? All important questions, all deserving of thoughtful answers.

A new year is always full of promise and excitement of what could be, but remember, that promise and excitement only reach fulfillment when the work on the lifter’s side has been put in, and not just the hard work, but the hard, smart, re-evaluative and contemplative work.

Wishing you all the best in your training and meet prep. And as we close out this past year and start this New Year, I want to thank those of you who follow my coaching logs and articles. My goal is and has always been, to share anything of use from my experiences as a competitive powerlifter, a powerlifting coach, the owner of MONSTER GARAGE GYM and an observer of life that I think can help in your lifting prowess and growth. Carpe diem and ever onward. Eric Maroscher: Monster Garage Gym.

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Equipment used in this coaching log training video:
EliteFTS Deluxe Monolift, EliteFTS Mastodon Bar, EliteFTS 3x3 Power Rack, EliteFTS Spud Straps (we bolt down our monolifts), EliteFTS Texas Power Bar, EliteFTS bands

You can find ALL of the prior EliteFTS/Maroscher Coaching Logs/articles at this link: MAROSCHER/MGG

MONSTER GARAGE GYM uses Universal Nutrition/Animal supplements and EliteFTS powerlifting equipment.

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