Timestamps
1:10 - Cultural differences between western and Asian people with sports and academics and how that impacted Keenan’s powerlifting career
3:33 - How Keenan’s training has evolved as he’s gotten stronger & unique considerations for his programming based off his leverages and strength levels
13:18 - How Keenan paces his top sets, how heavy his backdown work is, and why he backend deloads
17:50 - How range of motion/distance travels impacts how lifters respond to training intensity on the SBD & how Keenan deals with comparing himself to other top lifters regarding his own training process and how he gets stronger - especially leading into competition
26:29 - How pushing your hypertrophy work to high RPE’s helps your technique on the SBD at higher RPE’s & how systemic fatigue on the SBD impacts your effort on hypertrophy work
33:02 - How Keenan has troubleshooted his SBD plateaus - how to identify if you’re fatigued or undertrained - working around injuries & mobility issues that limit progress
40:08 - Troubleshooting shoulder girdle fatigue issues and interference between the low bar squat position and ability to progress the bench press
43:04 - What keeps Keenan training through injuries and his unique relationship mentally with powerlifting as an advanced world class lifter & the costs associated with progressing as an advanced lifter
50:43 - The possibility of advanced lifter plateaus being associated with overtraining syndrome - examples of advanced lifters who took extended time off and came back to the sport and achieved an even higher level of performance in the sport
55:20 - The number one sign of fatigue being high and why very strong, advanced powerlifters need to deload harder than more beginner and intermediate powerlifters to stay healthy and reduce fatigue enough to have productive training
1:00:01 - Why ascending sets are underrated for advanced lifters and why backdown work might be less effective and needed as you get more stronger and more advanced
Keenan's IG - https://www.instagram.com/arandomkoreandude/?hl=en
Keenan's Coaching - https://www.unlimitedstrength.co/plans
Apply For Coaching - https://adampeeler1.typeform.com/to/elvzT31W
Get My FREE Programs - https://linktr.ee/adamdpeeler
My Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/adamdpeeler/
Macrofactor Diet Tracking App (Use code PEELER for a 2-Week FREE Trial!) - https://macrofactorapp.com/macrofactor/
Leviathan Nutrition (Code: ADAM10) - https://leviathan-nutrition.com/
Built Bar (code PEELER for 10% off) - https://builtbar.com/