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Jul 11, 2022

In this episode, Mike Tuchscherer sits down with Mark Robb to discuss how a seasoned powerlifter's needs change over time. The conversation addresses specificity, frequency, and even off-season needs. 

Jun 27, 2022

Dr. Kristin Lander joins RTS Coaches Mike Tuchscherer and John Garafano again to talk about the difference between coaching nutrition versus training. Want to learn more about nutrition, check out Dr. Kristin Lander's courses here: https://store.reactivetrainingsystems.com/collections/classroom/products/nutrition-course-bundle

Jun 13, 2022

John Flagg of Rebuild Stronger joins coach Mike Tuchscherer to discuss all things related to the injury reintroduction process. 

May 30, 2022

Jordan Feigenbaum joins RTS Coaches Mike Tuchscherer and Ross Leppala to discuss some of his recent thoughts on nonspecific work in training and how they might help the powerlifts. 

May 16, 2022

Mike Tuchscherer sits down with Derek Evely to discuss Emerging Strategies and generally how athletes adapt to training stimuli.

May 9, 2022

RTS Coaches Mike Tuchscherer and John Garafano are joined by the President and Co-Founder of The Strength Guys, Jason Tremblay, to discuss how quality matters in training. 

Apr 28, 2022

RTS Coaches Mike Tuchscherer and John Garafano sit down with Shamal Asnani to talk about all things on the business side of coaching. Now, Shamal is a powerlifter and coach himself but his primary specialty is as a Certified Public Accountant. You can learn more about Shamal by visiting fitnesstaxes.com. Shamal also created a new RTS course all about the business side of coaching. Go to store.reactivetrainingsystems.com > Courses for more information. 

Apr 4, 2022
Natalie Hanson joins RTS Coaches Mike Tuchscherer, Ross Leppala, and John Garafano to discuss how your mentality can impact RPE ratings. Ultimately, our mindset can determine quite a bit regarding our ability to accurately rate RPE. 
Mar 28, 2022

In this episode, RTS Founder and Head Coach, Mike Tuchscherer, meets with Jacob Tober of 'Metric' which is a velocity-based training app that helps you measure velocity with your smartphone--no strings attached. Mike and Jacob talk about how to incorporate using velocity measurement to help calibrate your RPE. To learn more about 'Metric' please visit https://www.metric.coach/

Mar 21, 2022
Part 2! Building upon our last episode in December, Newton Cheng joins RTS Coaches Mike Tuchscherer, Mark Robb, and Ross Leppala to dive deeper into understanding one's meaning and purpose behind powerlifting and how to 'Win The Day'. This podcast was recorded right after the 2022 Arnold Sports Festival where Newton set several American and State records.
Mar 14, 2022

Building upon our last episode in December, Newton Cheng joins RTS Coaches Mike Tuchscherer, Mark Robb, and Ross Leppala to dive deeper into understanding one's meaning and purpose behind powerlifting and how to 'Win The Day'. This podcast was recorded right after the 2022 Arnold Sports Festival where Newton set several American and State records.

Feb 28, 2022

Ben Esgro of Elemental Formulations (https://eformulations.co/) joins RTS Coaches Mike Tuchscherer and John Garafano to discuss how to evolve your coaching. 

Feb 14, 2022
Landyn Hickmott joins RTS Coach, Mike Tuchscherer, to continue the conversation from the previous episode and discusses alternative set structures in powerlifting. 
Feb 7, 2022

In this episode, Landyn Hickmott stops by to chat with coach Mike Tuchscherer and coach John Garafano to discuss his most recent article titled 'The Effect of Load and Volume Autoregulation on Muscular Strength and Hypertrophy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis'. Landyn shares his recommendations regarding how much velocity loss we should look to train at to maximize strength and hypertrophy adaptations.

Check out Landyn's article here:

https://sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40798-021-00404-9

Jan 31, 2022

In this episode, RTS Coaches Mike Tuchscherer, Mark Robb, and John Garafano talk about the top 3 things they've learned in their years in the sport of powerlifting as both athletes and coaches. 

Jan 24, 2022

Have you ever wondered what happens during a Tactics Meeting here at RTS? Well, in this episode, we give you a glimpse into the kind of conversations we have. RTS Coaches, Mike Tuchscherer, Adam Jones, Hayden Pritchard, and Peter Lucey sit down to talk about their observations regarding periodization, Emerging Strategies, and much more. This is a fun one that you shouldn't miss! 

Jan 17, 2022

RTS Coaches Mike and John are joined by Dr. Kristin Lander to discuss how to replace the Bulk/Cut Cycles for a powerlifter. Dr. Lander also provides an overview of her new course available at the RTS website.

Jan 3, 2022

In this episode of the RTS Podcast, RTS Coaches Mike Tuchscherer and Hayden Pritchard sit down with Bryce Lewis and Eric Helms for a discussion on the Coach-Athlete Relationship. Since Eric and Bryce have been working together for over a decade and have accomplished a lot together, this is a really insightful episode into that evolving relationship.

Dec 13, 2021

RTS Founder and Head Coach, Mike Tuchscherer, and Coach John Garafano sit down with RTS Athlete, Charlie Richards to discuss how he creates a resilient mindset in training. Charlie is currently in Medical School and has employed several tools to help him not only become a good athlete but a great one, despite training in non-ideal conditions. 

Dec 6, 2021

In this podcast, Mike Tuchscherer sits down with Alex and Will from the Weakly Weights podcast to discuss some concepts of Advanced Autoregulation and Coaching including testing of some new systems that he has been developing. 

 

Please check out the Weakly Weights podcast: https://weaklyweights.podbean.com/

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Nov 22, 2021

Finding an ideal technique is not something that you arrive at and never change. It is a process that is ever-evolving and changing. In this episode, RTS Coaches, Mike, John, and Mark discuss how to help lifters determine their ideal technique. 

Don't forget RTS is running an early Black Friday sale on Adaptive Templates, Courses, the RTS Community, and Coaching until midnight Eastern on November 23rd. Head to https://store.reactivetrainingsystems.com/ for more information.

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Dec 9, 2020

Last week Team RTS spoke about stress management, recovery modalities, and hypothetical scenarios we may want to implement to help encourage long-term progress in powerlifting.

In this episode, we wanted to bring a real-world case-study for how to manipulate training variables when life gets overwhelming. We had the pleasure of speaking with Team RTS Lifter Adam Jones as he describes how a health-related scare helped him to re-imagine what powerlifting means to him and how he changed his training approach for the better.


Nov 25, 2020

In this episode coaches John Garafano, Ross Leppala, and Jim Elli talk about how hectic life can get, how it impacts our training, and what we can do about it.

Life stressors build up over time, and if left alone can prevent us from achieving our lifting and life goals. Bringing awareness to these stressors helps us to accept them and make the next positive step forward. Training is not done in a laboratory and we hope that this episode helps you in your journey wherever you may be.

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Sep 8, 2020

In this episode, Coaches John Garafano, Ross Leppala, Jim Elli and Mike Tuchscherer discuss the Emerging Strategies Tool that gets the least amount of love...Pivot Blocks.

Can we "optimize" pivot blocks? Can we increase the success of development blocks if we put more emphasis on the pivot blocks that we write as coaches? If so, how?

In the second half of the podcast, Coach John Garafano chats with Team RTS Lifter Amanda "The Sleeper" Allen about her powerlifting journey.

Spoiler Alert: She's a nighthawk, training in silence, building her strength in the shadows, ready to fight.

Stay tuned until the end for a special announcement.

Aug 4, 2020

In this episode, Mike Tuchscherer speaks with Bryce Lewis, from The Strength Athlete, about the potential drawbacks to a Bottom-Up Coaching Paradigm, and what we might be able to learn from using a more Top-Down model. This one is interesting...so we hope you take some notes and send us feedback on instagram @reactivetrainingsystems.

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