METAL MILITIA

CANADA

 

BECOMING A METAL MILITIA WARRIOR

What makes a competitive champion? Besides technique and a training plan what else is required to become a METAL MILITIA WARRIOR?

Desire, heart, belief, stubbornness to not quit, internal fire, fighting for the right reason, team synergy and support, the right atmosphere, the right equipment. Eating, sleeping and breathing your goals.

Top Ten Traits of METAL MILITIA WARRIORS / Powerlifting Champions

  1. Extreme focus on technique.
  2. Maximize all equipment advantages - don't race a 4 cylinder car in an 8 cylinder race.
  3. Eat big. Love eating.
  4. Drink a lot. Water is best.
  5. It's your top priority and always on your mind.
  6. Never skip a training session.
  7. Do the hard work. Love the hard work. The hard work is the reward.
  8. Meticulous attention to detail.
  9. Head Strong.
  10. Stay Humble.


1. Extreme focus on technique.

Squeeze every advantage out of your techique. Technique will beat brute force several times over. Techinque will keep you safe and as injury free as possible. Never lift heavier than you technique will allow. As soon as you feel yourself going out of technique, go back down in weight and work your way back up again with good technique. Sometimes your best technique will come in the last few reps or your work sets when your brute force is exhausted and you have to rely on technique to get the weight up for a few more reps.

Always take videos and analyse your technique or have a METAL MILITIA coach watch you or watch your videos. A few adjustments in technique can give you and instant increase in weight lifted, as much as 50 lbs more immediately. Go to a METAL MILITIA SEMINAR.

Watch lifters with good technique and turn away from watching lifters with bad technique. It all goes into your head.

2. Maximize all equipment advantages.

If you are lifting in gear, get all the right gear. Don't spend $1000 and your only vacation time going to a meet and not have the best gear you can get for the maximum advantage. Get the right length wrist wraps and knee wraps. Make alterations to ensure the tightest fit of your suit, briefs and shirt.. Plan for weight gain or loss and equipment adjustment including belts.

3. Eat Big.

Eating is part of your training. One of the most common traits of the strongest lifters is they love to eat. Even those that don't, force themselves to eat.  When Al Mehan came to train with METAL MILITIA MONTREAL at Montreal Barbell for a week, I tried to keep up with his eating schedule. I was still full from the last meal when he said, "ding, ding, ding, time to eat!" in the one week of eating and training with him, I gained 6 pounds and benched a 20 lb bench PR. Nothing happens without eating big.

4. Drink Lots of Water.

Water is anabolic. If over 70% of your muscles are water then what do you think happens when you are not fully hydrated? Drinking water helps in quicker recovery and less injuries and pain. Chris Skoda worked long shifts as a heavy truck mechanic. When he arrived at work he lined up 10 water bottles and drank them all before the end of his shirt.

5. It's your Top Priority and Always on Your Mind.

Most of the top powerlifters in the world either own their own gym or work at one. We have had some lifters in the Top 20 All Time World rankings who held full-time jobs, had families and children and went ot their church, synigog or place of worship.

6. Never Skip a Training Session.

Eating is part of your training.

7. Do The Hard Work.

Eating is part of your training.

6. Never Skip a Training Session.

Eating is part of your training.

6. Never Skip a Training Session.

Eating is part of your training.

6. Never Skip a Training Session.

Eating is part of your training.