The Reactive Training Systems Podcast

Round back deadlifting

Accessory work, supplemental work, assistance work, oh my!

How to Use Velocity Based Training with Landyn Hickmott

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How to get tighter (and stronger) in the deadlift

The topic for today is pulling the slack out of the bar in the deadlift. Getting tighter in the deadlift is deadlifting strength. It’s the limiting factor for most lifters and you can't ever have too much of it. In the episode we'll talk about what tightness in the deadlift actually means, some heuristics for its assessment, a lot of different coaching cues that we use, exercise selections to build tightness in the deadlift as well as ways of organising your training to support some of these tec...

Why Overload Work Makes You Stronger

Mindset Tactics for Long Term Success

Welcome back to the Reactive Training Systems podcast. In today’s episode Mike Tuchscherer and John Garafano talk to RTS Coach and World Champion Mark Robb about the mindset tactics that he's adopted over his 40 years of training experience, to become the kind of lifter who's still setting lifetime PRs into his 60’s. Because injuries can be such a significant derailment to our progress, Mark shares his experience with one injury in particular, which after decades of experience under the bar ende...

Equipped Lifting with Shane Martin

Welcome back to the RTS podcast. Today, RTS coaches John Garafano and Mike Tuchscherer are talking to Shane Martin of Smart Lifts. Shane is a bench presser and a powerlifter. He's also a coach, who also happens to be president of the Canadian powerlifting, the largest Federation in Canada. Shane is someone who has a reputation for being a technician in powerlifting equipment. If you're not familiar, then this podcast would be a great way to understand a little bit more of that aspect of our spor...

How to start programming with Emerging Strategies

Welcome back to the RTS podcast. This episode is going to be a conversation on how to get started with Emerging Strategies. Mike Tuchscherer will be talking to three of our newest coaches at RTS: Adam, Peter and Hayden. A question that comes up for us fairly often is how to get started with Emerging Strategies. It's a topic that we're obviously very passionate and very animated about. If you're listening to this, and you are just getting some first exposure to Emerging Strategies, something that...

Low Intensity Part 2 with team Data Driven Strength

Welcome back to the RTS podcast. This episode is a part two of sorts, connecting to the conversation that we had last time about very low RPE training. Last time, it was the RTS coaches, who gave their take on this topic of growing popularity in powerlifting training. We mentioned then, that we really wanted to talk to Zack and Josh of Data Driven Strength about this. So we booked it in. You can think of it as a kind of classic RTS programming discussion, where we dig deep into the weeds and tal...

Programming with low RPE

You may have noticed that lately in the powerlifting universe, there has been a trend toward low RPE training. This trend has been misunderstood by many people, and mischaracterized by others. There are certainly aspects of it that we at RTS agree with, and we find ourselves in support of, and then there are other aspects of it, where we maybe see things a little bit differently. Since this has been a question that has popped up in our Instagram Q&A's more than once, and it's a bit of a more...