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These are deadlift programs that call for the athlete to deadlift 2 days per week. Some are deadlift-only programs, while others program all lifting movements.
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By Kyle Risley
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Meet prep program: Yes
Program goal: Olympic Weightlifting
Uses RPE: No
Uses 1RM Percentage(%): Yes
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This is a 12 week Olympic weightlifting program with 3 to 6 training days per week, depending upon your classification. It can be used by beginner, intermediate, and advanced weightlifters, as it provides programming for multiple lifter classifications.
This program can be used in preparation for a weightlifting competition.
[Read more…] By Kyle Risley
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Experience level: Advanced, Intermediate
Weeks: 3
Periodization: Linear Periodization
Meet prep program: No
Program goal: Strength
Uses RPE: No
Uses 1RM Percentage(%): Yes
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Deathdealer is a strength program influenced by 5/3/1 BBB and Simple Jack’d. Like 5/3/1, it is run in 3 week cycles, has one focus lift (i.e. T1 lift) per training session, and uses training maxes. Having a given number of goal reps for your T2 lift, to be completed in any number of sets, is borrowed from Simple Jack’d.
[Read more…] By Kyle Risley
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Recommended by Lift Vault: Yes
Experience level: Advanced, Intermediate
Weeks: 6
Periodization: Block Periodization
Meet prep program: No
Program goal: Powerlifting
Uses RPE: Yes
Uses 1RM Percentage(%): Yes
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David Woolson, strong and smart dude over at Brazos Valley Strength, has boldly declared that he intends to release free powerlifting programming over the next year.
[Read more…] By Kyle Risley
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Recommended by Lift Vault: Yes
Experience level: Intermediate
Weeks: 15
Periodization: Block Periodization
Meet prep program: No, Yes
Program goal: Strength
Uses RPE: Yes
Uses 1RM Percentage(%): No
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This is a 15 week intermediate powerlifting program from PRs on the Platform. It utilizes block periodization and can be run repeatedly or used to peak for a powerlifting competition.
[Read more…] By Kyle Risley
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Experience level: Advanced, Intermediate
Weeks: Indefinite
Periodization: Linear Periodization, Undulating Periodization
Meet prep program: No
Program goal: High Volume, Strength
Uses RPE: No
Uses 1RM Percentage(%): Yes
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May 2020 Update: Added Simple Jack’d 2x spreadsheet. You should probably run v2.0, as the creator of the program considers it superior to v1.0.
Simple Jack’d is a modified blend of the Bulgarian Method and the Smolov base cycle. It’s essentially a flexible one week volume accumulation block that can be run indefinitely for powerlifting and general strength goals.
[Read more…] By Kyle Risley
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Experience level: Intermediate
Weeks: 12
Periodization: Block Periodization, Linear Periodization
Meet prep program: Yes
Program goal: Powerlifting, Strength
Uses RPE: No
Uses 1RM Percentage(%): Yes
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Heavy, Light, Medium (HLM) programs are a simple and effective way to organize strength training. Each training session consists of either a heavy, medium, or light load for a given lift. The HLM training style is extremely flexible and can be used to accommodate many training goals.
[Read more…] By Kyle Risley
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Experience level: Beginner, Intermediate
Weeks: 10
Periodization: Block Periodization
Meet prep program: Yes
Program goal: Peaking, Powerlifting
Uses RPE: Yes
Uses 1RM Percentage(%): Yes
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Prep10 is a 10 week powerlifting peaking program designed for beginners and intermediates. It uses block periodization to take the lifter through a 5 week hypertrophy mesocycle, followed by a 1 week transition mesocycle, a 3 week intensity mesocycle, and a 1 week deload. This program could be used to peak for a meet taking place on week 11 (assuming week 10 is the deload week). [Read more…]