Kodiak Powerlifting

Another fun meet day with the Kodiak team. had a rocky day but showed some VERY impressive resolve. Missed his opener on squat and bench and deadlift and came back to stay in the meet on both of them. Not the day either of us wanted for him but he put up over a thousand pound total and showed some great mental toughness in his first meet. had a solid first meet going 7/9 just missing his third squat and bench and putting up an 1124lb total. Super proud of these guys and also proud and glad so much of the team came out to support

Two Kodiak lifters had a great meet last weekend at Greg competed at his first meet and totaled 1223 with a lifetime PR squat and near misses on bench and deadlift. Richard totaled 1311 for an 11lb total PR with a near miss on his third deadlift. Great job and super proud of these two. Also, shoutout to Caleb for coming out to support and hangout as well.

Love these people. Another great meet day.

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As you might’ve seen on my story a bunch of Kodiak lifters showed out at ‘s deadlift competition. Had a great time with everyone thank you to the gym and to and for putting on a really fun event

I truly thank God for being able to do this. Being able to help people, touch people’s lives and have my life touched so much more by my peers, elders and clients in the sport. The happiness and fulfillment it’s brought me is hard to articulate.

showed me this pic from when we were working on his deadlift last weekend and I realized how happy I look. This is what I love to do and I am very grateful.

It’s meet week for two Kodiak lifters and so I thought I’d throw up this pic from almost exactly 3 years ago. This was my first time coaching and handling clients through a meet. Richard accepted my offer to handle his training the February before and I haven’t stopped coaching since. That was a great day getting these guys qualifying totals and having a last at their first meet. Love meet days and love these guys.

Let’s talk about protein intake. How much protein do you really need? Well that depends on your goals but overall you don’t need as much protein as you probably think you do. To maintain you only really need about .4g/lb of body weight. Now for performance athletes you should probably up that by about 50% (.6g/lb of body weight). The commonly tossed around metric is 1g per pound of body weight and that’s really not necessary in a bulk. When in a bulk you should really only be consuming .6-.8g per pound of body weight and put the dietary focus on carbohydrates which will keep your glycogen stores full. This will create a better environment to accrue good mass. Now when you’re in a cut is when you should really be focusing on the protein content and trying stay in the 1.0g+ per pound of body weight as that will minimize the the catabolic effects a caloric deficit. Now there are seldom negative side effects of too much protein intake as a performance athlete, but it shouldn’t be as worried about and many athletes do. Hydrate, lift, down some carbs, distribute protein throughout the day sleep well and watch the gainz happen.

So right now shirts are available on two different sites because of difficulties with each site. I should have this sorted out in the next few weeks but here are the links to each

shop.spreadshirt.com/Kodiak-powerlifting/

kodiak-powerlifting.creator-spring.com/

The teespring is more expensive because it has the logos on both sides. Hope you guys like them!

Also thank you to for help with the logos

Let’s talk about knee tracking. Where your knees go during the squat is hugely important. I took these pictures above to help with his squat. Ideally knees will track about over the second two, for high bar squatters or Olympic lifters they might track wider which is ok but what you do not want is what is shown on the left where your knee is tracking too far inward. This can put unwanted pressure on your knees and also shows that you likely have poor glute activation and/or hip mobility. Small changes can make a big difference in this game.