Post-Competition Restoration and Nutrition

and we only recommend a comp usually usually once to you know two to three times max per year anyway just because there's other shit to work on that's the thing you come off the platform you're already probably like your joints hurt, you're sick, sick and tired of lifting heavy. Everyone's actually looking forward to doing things like that is what we see most often. So you've got to utilize that. That's the perfect time. Just spend a couple of four-week blocks working on stuff you don't normally work on. Work on your split squats. Work on length and position stuff. Work on lower loading, lower intensity.

intensity loading. Do some cardio. Start looking at your diet. Say, I know everybody goes, oh, you got to eat more salt. Man, I've never seen somebody with a salt deficiency. That book, Salt Fix, has fucked every personal trainer's idea of salt. You ever seen a salt deficiency in anyone? No. I see a lot of potassium deficiencies because people won't eat plucking plants. But a lot of, especially in powerlifting, what's a really good bulking food for powerlifters? Maccas. Maccas and pizza. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So it's like, can I get my post-workout fix? Yeah. Especially in, especially in the bigger weight classes where it's like, well, I can just bloat the fuck up, turn myself into a big fucking water sausage. Yeah. You know? So at that point it's probably a good idea to maybe cut weight a little bit, do a little bit of cardio for part of that, get some sweat going on, get some healthier foods back in, um, and then give, give everything a break and see if like a good eight weeks gets all that stuff realigned. And then you can start slowly turning the amplitude of your training back up. The amount of conversations that we've had following the recent pro-role comp that Will's been at from our own clients that it's like, man, I just feel so much better. Like my sleep's the best that it's ever been. And this is the best that it's ever been. And it's okay that recognizing for that short period of time during a comp prep, those things are probably, those qualities are probably going to degrade ever so slightly but it's about knowing that they are short term it's not permanent um and that those are the first qualities that we aim to improve following competition so that you continue to feel good and and can then have the desire to compete again down the track because if you're constantly driving that home um over and over and over again people they tap out from powerlifting pretty quickly as well because they're just fucked all the time yeah it's a brutal sport yeah for sure long term yeah yeah the hardest thing about powerlifting isn't isn't the first prep isn't the second prep it's the it's the 10th and the 15th and the you know 10 years into it prep yeah it's hard to do for a long time that's like half our mentorship is about longevity and how to be because that's the hard part in my eyes so the next thing is when you're done with powerlifting it's weightlifting dunking dunking dunking yeah Yeah. Dunking donuts. Cucking and dunking. Yeah. All the qualities. All the qualities. Sex appeal right there. Cuck, dunk, fuck. Well, that's it. You just pay somebody else to do the dunk for you. Now you've cucked your dunk. Beautiful. Delightful. All right. Zach you got anything you need to talk about Yeah I round this out on a solid laugh I mean unless the person died then it might not be funny But have you ever had to pull the plug on someone who went above beast mode Like someone who just like so close to death ethically, you could not continue to tell them to continue training. Extra points if you name it. You can't just say like, just do nothing. Yeah, I mean, also, like, if they're competing and their blood markers come and it's, like, comps in two weeks, but their blood pressure's higher than a priest joke.