Program Review - Juggernaut AI Powerlifting and Powerbuilding 2.0 My plan was to write this in 2 months as part of a meet recap, but without getting to into this ridiculous back story, while rearranging my garage gym at my apartment building I tore my bicep pushing my deadlift platform into place.
- Since Smolov Jr is a peaking program, some may look to do it before a meet. That’s simply a high risk and high reward decision. While the program certainly works, it also carries a risk of injury. As well, not every lifter will maintain (let alone increase) their deadlift during the 3 weeks off from deadlifts.
- A lot of the information you read about peaking for a competition revolves around 'supercompensation.' You dramatically increase training volume and intensity for 7-14 days then, one week out from the competition, you bring training stress way down and increase carbs to supercompensate. This leads to an increase in performance.
- Oct 01, 2019 As old as time itself, these peaking programs can be run for squat, bench, and deadlift when preparing for a powerlifting meet. Both seek to improve your 1 rep max by 5% after the end of the cycle. The differences between the 9 week and 12 week peaking cycles can be seen below.
- Developed from the legendary 8-week program created for the Army Powerlifting team that’s now been used by thousands of lifters, the 6 week powerlifting program utilizes undulating periodization and works each compound lift twice per week.
Which One Do I Start With?
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Each template is aimed at a different demographic, i.e. novice, advanced- slow peak, advanced- fast peak. We would recommend starting the template whose demographic is most similar to you for your first go around.
6 Week Powerlifting Peaking Program
If using these templates for a Strengthlifting meet, i.e. a meet that uses the press instead of the bench press, simply replace all benching variations with the press. Similarly, replace pressing variations with the bench press. The squat and deadlift variations remain the same.