Training at EFS

Before I do a big post about all the awesomeness that occurred this weekend at EliteFTS's Learn to Train seminar I wanted to make a quick post about the 3 key points that I took from my training session with Joey Smith, Jeremy Frey, and Brian Carroll.

-Being Patient-
If anyone follows my training, I'm not really patient when I get in the hole with a squat. I don't know if it is the confidence, or just learning to trust the gear. Frey had me really try to be patient when I got in the hole and not give up early, "It was high cause it was only training" was a stupid excuse to not hit depth basically. Something that I really need to work on if I plan on hitting what I'm chasing after.

-Mental State-
This is where Joey Smith and I are very similar. After seeing the "lack of psych up"(not in a bad way) that Carroll and Frey had before hitting squats I realized that maybe being so intense all the time has been hurting my training. Yeah, approach each lift the same, but don't always be so jacked up that if you aren't, you miss the lift. If you don't need the psych up for 495 that you do for 700, you really aren't approaching it the same are you? So basically, Calm the Fuck down.

-Technique, Technique, Technique-
Technique is everything. Those guys look like robots when they squat. Each rep is identical. Although my Raw squat is really dialed in, I'm having trouble keeping the same consistency when I get the gear on. I think this will continue to improve the more I handle bigger weights and learn the gear.

So basically, I got a ton of things to work on, without much being said. I wasn't looking for a an overhaul, I just wanted to learn as much as I could about the gear, about the technique, and some simple stuff that will help me stay in a better position.

And anyone who says squatting out of the ghetto mono set up we do at I-FAST and using a real one is a jackass. Biggest switch ever