The Platform — Coaches Roundtable (Part 2): Nick Lundquist & Nick Lusk — Peaking, RPE & Fixing Technique — The roundtable continues as the coaches get into day-to-day autoregulation, peaking for the platform, and the cheap fixes that clean up big flaws.

In this episode: structuring the training week (Lusk's Mon/Wed/Fri lifting with Tue/Thu conditioning and mobility) and getting multi-sport kids in on the days that matter most; auto-regulating intensity when a lifter is dragging — and why the real answer is usually sleep, food, and hydration before it's programming; RPE versus straight percentages (and why brand-new lifters can't rate what they don't know yet); adjusting volume by manipulating sets rather than chasing rep ranges; peaking and tapering into the state meet with dynamic-effort waves, circa-max work, band tension, and the delayed transformation effect; rotating exercises to keep the train rolling; and budget-friendly accessories to fix common flaws — PVC pipe, reverse hypers, and banded leg-curl and tear-apart variations to strengthen weak points and coach the fault out on speed day.

A few lines that stuck with us: "Stress is stress." • "We keep the train rolling with our exercise selection." • "Strengthen the weak points and the technical flaws get coached out of it." • "We're probably gonna find a lot more common stuff than we have differences."