ProgrammingToWin2: Programming for Competitive Powerlifters

by Israel Narvaez

What It Is ProgrammingToWin is the distillation of best practices I have learned in the last eight years of my experience both as a competitive powerlifter and as a coach of competitive powerlifters. After having coached more than two-hundred individual lifters in actual powerlifting meets, providing free programming to thousands of others online, and reading hundreds of books on powerlifting, I have created a system of programming that I believe will yield you the fastest possible results in your first two to four years in the sport. Advanced lifters will benefit from the discussion on Daily Undulating Periodization and the clearly laid program example that they can use to create their own, personalized program. I believe that if I had access to this information when I was first starting powerlifting, I would have made progress at twice the speed. What You Will Get In a sentence, four years have passed since the first edition of ProgrammingToWin was released and I've distilled everything I've learned in the past four years into the new programs in this book. The book features more than 100 pages of discussion on the why and the how of optimally programming your first three to five years in the sport of powerlifting. More than fifty pages of discussion are dedicated to the scientific principles of proper powerlifting programming. No stone is left unturned. If you were a fan of the PowerliftingToWin Program Review Series, the first half of the book delves into all of the tools that we used to analyze programs planning, periodization, programming, training advancement, specificity, overload, fatigue management, individual differences, and, of course, autoregulation! Novice Programs The novice program includes three distinct phases to help you navigate the early pitfalls of training, avoid needless stalls, and cut down on any wasted time whatsoever. This phase should last you through the first six months to one year of your training career. Intermediate Programs The intermediate programs are designed to take you from the end of year one of training all the way through to the end of year three (or so). My intermediate programs are now designed to smoothly transition you into Daily Undulating Periodization programs (DUP). I can tell you from first-hand experience that DUP is the primary style of periodization used by most of today's top IPF lifters. DUP is often described in such vague theoretical terms that no one seems to know how to put a DUP program together in the real world. Well, you don't have to worry about that anymore. I've gone ahead and put one together for you. Now including Advanced Programming! I couldn't be more excited to announce that this version of ProgrammingToWin finally incorporates some advanced programming. By now, most of you who have followed PTW over the years no longer require basic novice and intermediate programming. Most of you are looking for straight forward, easy to apply advanced programming that can take you to the next level. Well, in Version Two of ProgrammingToWin, you'll get a 13 Week DUP Peaking Program designed to help you smash PRs at your next meet. This program incorporates the EXACT principles that I've used to help numerous clients become nationally ranked powerlifters in their country including a few who have gone on to set National records as well as podium. This isn't just a bunch of DUP theory wanking; this is programming that I've tested in the trenches over the past four years of coaching competitive powerlifters. In Sum This books contains everything you need, in terms of information and actual programs to follow in order, for you to have the most amount of success possible in your first four or five years in the sport.

155 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 21, 2018

Reviews

[Will Rattan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent!

This is an excellent resource for anyone wanting to get stronger, but it is written specifically for Powerlifters. The author goes into the underlying science to validity the programs and to convince the athlete of the viable potential for the programs hopeful!y towards buy-in and hopefully greater compliance with actually working the programs instead of undermining the effectiveness.

This book purchase seemed a good way to continue my personal education, but also as a way to financially give back to Izzy Narvaez for his excellent content through Powerliftingto Win. He has graciously given much already. I am not sure how I didn't find this listing sooner: remarkably it never came up in my many searches for books on this and related topics. I was lucky to find it while watching a Jonnie Candito video highly recommending it. Candito's content, generosity, programs, and IPF performances are extremely noteworthy as well!