Matt & Niki and your lifting and life questions.

Topics include coaching certifications oriented to coaching females, shoulder pain from presses & squats, adductor tears during squats, office strength groups, and power clean rack position.

0:00 Introduction & BLOC Party Overview

8:16 Programming During Weight Cuts

• Gained a bunch of weight during LP, having a USSF meet coming up: still want to hit big numbers, but want to lean down
• Performance doesn't have to suffer very much with small weight cut if done intelligently
• Top set with volumes can really be a nice combination of hitting enough volume and still hitting the intensity
• Lots of volume can help maintain muscle mass
• Drive up that top set as much as possible

15:21 Certification to Coach Females?

• Do you need to get a certification for coaching females? No
• Need to improve your coaching, in general
• Need to relate to your clients
• Permission to coach mindset: more variation within group than between
• 5x3 works well for lots of people with a deficiency of upper body muscle mass

23:32 Shoulder Pain

• play with squat grip: probably bring it in
• guess at what it is: proximal bicep tendinopathy
• if it persists, put squat at the end of the workout (as squat tends to make rest of workout worse)
• be very specific in where things hurt
• do more sets of lower reps with slower, perfect form
• lower the weight, slow down the lift
• keep pain below a 3 and look for it to reduce over time
• incline dumbbell press?
• work to get the intensity back up
• can also play around with frequency

30:14 Adductor Pain during Squats

• Where is the pain presenting itself? (middle or end of muscle)
• Is it at the tendon or in the muscle belly
• Did you bruise?
• Play with stance angle and ensure form is on point

35:25 Strength Office Activities

• Start a strength training for running & cycling groups, but it's really just strength
• Help coach 1/3 sessions they lift
• Cycling Power Development

38:27 Power Clean Rack Position

• wrist mobility or strength?
• have to think about strength & mobility and what they really are, first

43:00 Most Impactful Non-Strength Books

• Matt: Lonesome Dove, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Measure What Matters, The Bible
• Andrew: Endurance, Man's Search For Meaning
• Niki: Deep Work, Sparking Joy, Into Thin Air, Bone Clocks

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