Written by: Kevin Cann I sent this out to PPS, but I feel more people need to hear it. It seems inappropriate to really talk about anything else right now with what is going on in the world. I titled this article after a famous Martin Luther King Jr speech where he discusses the two Americas that he sees. He sees one filled with prosperity and opportunity and another filled with poverty. I Read More
Written by: Kevin Cann A lot of people will shit on max effort work in the powerlifting world. They will say that it is too hard to recover from, dangerous in terms of injuries, and that technique will suffer. These situations, although I disagree, I do find that there is some merit to them. However, with that said, heavy singles are the sport. At some point you need to actually train the sport. Read More
Written by: Kevin Cann I do not think many people understand what it is like to be a member of PPS. This group is not for everyone, and I am sure as shit not for everyone. We have had many people come and go over the years that could not handle the dynamic of the group, or myself as a coach. PPS is much more than just following a training program, or a Read More
Written by: Kevin Cann One of the PPS lifters asked a fantastic question last night and I think this is a good topic to discuss today. He asked about adding in more accessory work. This being bodybuilding type exercises at the end of a training session. First, we take a lot of singles. However, we are not Westside and we differ from them very much. Our day 1 will be max effort squats, Read More
Written by: Kevin Cann I am beginning a Strength School with PPS. This is an educational/classroom type thing where we will cover all of the basics in strength training and the theory of PPS. Some do not have access to equipment right now and some have access to very limited pieces of equipment. It is important that everyone understands the basics of strength training with these limitations. This is how we make Read More
Written by: Kevin Cann I had a really good conversation with the youngest member of our team this past weekend. She had reached out asking for more work because she doesn’t feel sore or tired after training days in the gym. She also said that the weights feel really easy sometimes and feels she should be doing more. For the sake of this article we will name her Amanda. Amanda is a very coachable lifter Read More
Written by: Kevin Cann I got my hands on some of Dietmar Wolf’s programs earlier this week, and after looking them over it got me thinking a bit. These programs share many of the same principles as my coach, Boris Sheiko’s programs. The volumes and the number of lifts is very similar for one. The only difference is in the average relative intensity. Dietmar’s programs seem to be much lighter in terms of average relative Read More
Written By: Kevin Cann You know how many cues that Boris Sheiko has given me over the 140 weeks I have been training with him? Zero. Not a single cue. Instead I get feedback on my lifts and appropriate variations to help me fix the issues that he sees. It was not always like this. There were a few months before I started working with Boris that I decided to learn the lifts. I hadn’t done anything Read More
Written by: Kevin Cann I had another topic that I was actually going to write about today, but we will get to that one next week. This topic is fresh on my mind coming off of a competition and writing the training blocks for my lifters after we have competed. Every competition every lifter wants to hit the biggest personal records (PR) that they can possibly hit. Of course, they want this, and they absolutely should. Read More
Written by: Kevin Cann This is going to be more of a rant than anything. It is not a bad rant, but something that frustrates me at this point in my career. And before I get started, let me just tell you, I was this person before. I think it is part of the process of maturing as a coach. I have performed the FMS and swore by it, I have done the “single leg is Read More