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Prepare for War: Competition Planning/Cutting for Powerlifting
The most hated man in Powerlifting, Jamie Lewis, offering his thoughts, tips, and hints on how to prepare your mind and body for competitive powerlifting...
The ultimate in competition prep, Prepare For War is the sum total of raw all-time, all-federation powerlifting former world record holder Jamie Lewis's knowledge on the subjects of cutting and training for meets.
Inside, you'll learn how to diet during meet preparation, alter your training to maximize your total, why cutting for meets makes sense, and how to cut water and then recomp to be at your biggest and strongest. You'll also learn how to pick your attempts, and what craziness you should expect during a meet.
Starting three months out, you learn to:
Pick a diet
Pick a program
Reverse engineer your total
Bodyhacks for cutting fat more quickly
Train and diet in the last week before the meet
Cut water weight using a variety of methods for both a 24 hour and 3 hour weigh-in
The amazing art and science of glycogen supercomposition
The author has penned more than 500 articles on the subjects of training and nutrition over the last five years, and began competing in powerlifting simply to prove the efficacy of his training and diet methodologies. In doing so, he broke a record total that had stood for 40 years and tied the 40 year old squat record in the same meet.
The ultimate in competition prep, Prepare For War is the sum total of raw all-time, all-federation powerlifting former world record holder Jamie Lewis's knowledge on the subjects of cutting and training for meets.
Inside, you'll learn how to diet during meet preparation, alter your training to maximize your total, why cutting for meets makes sense, and how to cut water and then recomp to be at your biggest and strongest. You'll also learn how to pick your attempts, and what craziness you should expect during a meet.
Starting three months out, you learn to:
Pick a diet
Pick a program
Reverse engineer your total
Bodyhacks for cutting fat more quickly
Train and diet in the last week before the meet
Cut water weight using a variety of methods for both a 24 hour and 3 hour weigh-in
The amazing art and science of glycogen supercomposition
The author has penned more than 500 articles on the subjects of training and nutrition over the last five years, and began competing in powerlifting simply to prove the efficacy of his training and diet methodologies. In doing so, he broke a record total that had stood for 40 years and tied the 40 year old squat record in the same meet.
72 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 3, 2014
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March 7, 2024
I grabbed this as something to read whilst in boring meetings, mostly the work comes from the Author's blog posts including where he states that more information is found "here, here and here" which online would contain a hyperlink but copy/pasted into kindle needs some editing.
The author's narcissistic world record setting approach takes no prisoners and is a good break from general advice to go lighter and take more rest, but it's not always going to be viable. I also realise the oddity of buying a book on peaking for a meet on someone who thinks peaking is stupid and you should be able to pull three times your bodyweight cold and in jeans.
His approach is clearly to go as hard as possible and backfill what works for him with scientific research where available. Quoting things like Transcendental Meditation for reducing crime rate is generally seen as pseudo science and I belive was withdrawn by the original peer reviewed journal.
Probably not as worth buying as Destroy the Opposition or 365 Days of Brutality.
The author's narcissistic world record setting approach takes no prisoners and is a good break from general advice to go lighter and take more rest, but it's not always going to be viable. I also realise the oddity of buying a book on peaking for a meet on someone who thinks peaking is stupid and you should be able to pull three times your bodyweight cold and in jeans.
His approach is clearly to go as hard as possible and backfill what works for him with scientific research where available. Quoting things like Transcendental Meditation for reducing crime rate is generally seen as pseudo science and I belive was withdrawn by the original peer reviewed journal.
Probably not as worth buying as Destroy the Opposition or 365 Days of Brutality.
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