This week we welcomed Limerick’s own Gar Benn to the podcast. Gar is the owner of CityGym Limerick, Titan Ireland, Head coach at Sigma Nutrition, Head of the European Powerlifting Conference & Elemental Formulations Europe.

Being able to have great communication skills & coaching processes that will translate into getting more clients, keeping those you have happy & how it will help get better results.

This is one for the coaches & aspiring coaches out there, don’t miss it!

Topics covered:

Links to find Gar:

All Gar’s links: https://linktr.ee/gar_benn

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gar_benn

Links to find the boys:

Shane Storey

Website: www.storeystrength.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/sstorey94

Email: [email protected]

Lawrence King

Instagram: www.instagram.com/_lawrenceking

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_lawrenceking

This week we welcomed IFFB Pro John Jewett (@johnjewett3) onto the podcast to discuss optimising hypertrophy for powerlifters.

John is a very decorated bodybuilder having won many NPC shows & competed at the coveted Mr. Olympia 3x to date but before the bodybuilding life he was all about powerlifting.

He has broken multiple records in the sport & it’s unlikely we will have a bigger bencher on the podcast for a while (he has benched 706lbs/320kg).

Topics covered:

Links to find John:

Website: https://www.j3sportsrd.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnjewett3

Links to find the boys:

Shane Storey

Website: www.storeystrength.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/sstorey94

Email: [email protected]

Lawrence King

Instagram: www.instagram.com/_lawrenceking

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_lawrenceking

This week we welcomed the one & only Dr. Eric Helms (@helms3dmj) to the podcast. Eric is a research fellow at Auckland University of Technology, chief science officer for 3DMJ, MASS contributor, coach & pro natural bodybuilder - a busy guy you could say.

This podcast was centred around how to balance bodybuilding & powerlifting. Both sports or outside of sport, the pursuit of strength & size, have many commonalities but subtle differences in programming, periodisation & planning competitions into the year.

Eric has both the experience competing in a multitude of sports within the same year having competed in bodybuilding, strongman & powerlifting & has trained others to this stage at a high level too.

Having been Helms fans for years it was great to chat with the man himself & I hope you enjoy the episode!

Topics covered:

11:30 Training differences between powerlifting & bodybuilding

18:00 Training-specific adaptation

22:00 Minimum effective training for strength

25:00 Preventing loss of adaptations

45:00 Lessons learned from competing in bodybuilding & powerlifting

1:00:00 Setting up for your life to compete

Where to find Eric:

Website: https://3dmusclejourney.com/about/eric-helms/

Research Review: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/mass/

Links to find the boys:

Shane Storey

Website: www.storeystrength.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/sstorey94

Email: [email protected]

Lawrence King

Instagram: www.instagram.com/_lawrenceking

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_lawrenceking

In this weeks podcast we had Anna Hourihane, Conor Kiernan, Jayne Jones & Ger Buckley on to give our predictions for this weekends ABS

Pro & Series 8.

This ABS Pro will be the first since 2019 which saw Arthur Chrzaszcz & Heather Connor walk away with the W.

Heather will be coming to retain her title against some very very stiff competition in the Womens.

In the mens, Arthur won’t be competing to defend so we will be crowning a new champ.

With some of the strongest lifters in Europe competing, this is going to an amazing weekend of lifting.

This is not a meet to be missed by any PL fan & you can access it through the Kilo.cast livestream which myself & Lawrence will be doing the commentating for.

Topics covered:

Div 2 Male

Div 2 Female

Div 1 Male

Div 1 Female

Pro-Am Female

Pro-Am Male

Pro Female

Pro Male

Links to find the boys:

Shane Storey

Website: www.storeystrength.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/sstorey94

Email: [email protected]

Lawrence King

Instagram: www.instagram.com/_lawrenceking

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_lawrenceking

Link for media packages:

https://markstellmedia.ie/

Link to the livestream & tickets:

https://advancedbarbellsystems.com/ser8/

This week we welcomed Anna Hourihane & Jayne Jones to the podcast to discuss weight cutting strategies for strength sports.

Anna & Jayne are both Irish international powerlifters, registered dietitians & work alongside ABS Powerlifting as part of the nutrition team.

The two of them have been very busy since competition season started ramping back up between ABS series, international, national & regional competitions getting athletes ready using either chronic or acute weight manipulation to make weight or improve formula score.

Most of what people know with weight loss is that we need a calorie deficit. However with acute weight manipulation we look to different factors to achieve a short term weight loss for a competition/specific day.

Its an area that requires thought & strategic approach as it can lead to very bad outcomes if done incorrectly or without supervision.

This was a very informative podcast to record & will certain educate anybody who listens to it on everything to do with weight manipulation for strength sports.

Find the girls at:

https://www.instagram.com/pow_ah/

https://www.instagram.com/jayne.joness/

https://advancedbarbellsystems.com/nutrition-2/

Links to find the boys:

Lawrence

Instagram: www.instagram.com/_lawrenceking

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_lawrencekingT

Today on the podcast Lawrence & Shane discuss the two most effective sport supplements on the market: caffeine & creatine monohydrate.

Links to find the boys:

Lawrence

Instagram: www.instagram.com/_lawrenceking

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_lawrenceking

Today to the podcast we welcomed Brian Minor - coach, founder of MyoJournal, USAPL powerlifter & pro natural bodybuilder.

If you have read any of Brian's work on progressive overload & other principles of strength training, you would know he is a deep thinker & has an excellent way to conceptualise complex topics.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bdminor/

Links to find the boys:

Lawrence

Instagram: www.instagram.com/_lawrenceking

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_lawrenceking

Episode 15 📻

Today we welcomed to the podcast Pak Androulakis-Korakakis who is a coach at Stronger by Science & strength training researcher.

Over the last 3 years PAK has been running a series of training studies on what the minimum amount of training we can do to get stronger, specifically to increase 1RM strength in powerlifters.

In a field where people are very focused on what more we need to do to improve - more sets, more reps, more accessories & also see that as the only way we can improve, we may get to a point of diminishing returns.

PAK’s research helps to recalibrate this with his work showing that even as we get stronger & more experienced that periods of lower training volumes can lead to strength gains.

This was a great discussion & one for the coaches as well as the lifters which will surely challenge some of your biases around the “just work harder” mentality.

Publications: https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/668516/overview

Links to find the boys:

Lawrence

Instagram: www.instagram.com/_lawrenceking

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_lawrenceking

This week we got Brian O’Haonghusa, one of Ireland’s finest nutritionists & head of nutrition Triage Method to come on to talk about performance nutrition.

The fuel you put in has a massive impact on your recovery, performance & therefore your results so having a good approach is key if you want to do well. Unfortunately its an area where there is still a lot of misinformation & people probably focusing on certain areas more than they should.

With that in mind, Brian breaks down nutrition into a step by step format on the areas you should focus on more, those you should focus on less, common mistakes to avoid & ones we have made ourselves!

Links to find the boys:

Lawrence King

Instagram: www.instagram.com/_lawrenceking

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_lawrenceking

After an unintentional sabbatical myself & Lawrence got together to chat lifting once again.

We talk about competing, our diet experiences & plans for the coming year.

This was a pretty relaxed discussion but there is some gems of wisdom (& shite talk) in it so make sure to listen.

We will be back next week with a juicy topic to feed your brain once again 👊🏼

Links to find the boys:

Shane Storey

Website: www.storeystrength.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/sstorey94

Email: [email protected]

Lawrence King

Instagram: www.instagram.com/_lawrenceking

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_lawrenceking