Ep. 115 - Tapering For Strength: What You Probably Don’t Know

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

This week, Dr. Hayden Pritchard joins Iron Culture. Hayden did his Ph.D. specifically on tapering for maximal strength enhancement, which included surveying top powerlifters to see what they do in practice prior to competition. Since his Ph.D. he’s gone on to survey strongmen/women, CrossFit competitors and weightlifters as well. No stranger to maximal strength himself, Hayden Pritchard is also a national-level weightlifter, and a world-level powerlifter, having represented New Zealand at IPF Worlds in the 93kg class. As you know, we value nepotism here at Iron Culture, as you’ll find out that Eric and Hayden actually did their Ph.D.’s at AUT in the same time period, and competed with one another in powerlifting in 2013-2014 multiple times. Join us in this episode as you benefit from that nepotism and learn the science of how strength athletes set themselves up to PR on the platform.

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0:00.0	The fine folks that listen to these episodes of the podcast are probably not aware of the struggles that we go through.
0:06.2	And Eric, I'm going to explain something because if they are only listening and watching the video,
0:11.1	they might not be aware that I'm currently wearing glasses.
0:13.4	And with a yay or nay, or my glasses foggy?
0:16.8	Like, do they look a little foggy, a little clear?
0:18.4	What do they look like to you?
0:20.8	I would say just a little bit foggy, but it could be my connection.
0:24.7	They're ever so slightly foggy, but here's what's going on.
0:27.4	Okay, we tried to read a review in this episode today, and there were no more reviews.
0:33.2	So I had to go to YouTube, but here's the problem.
0:35.1	I rarely, and this is why I'm jealous. I'm envious, Eric, of you, the fact that you have perfect, wonderful vision.
0:41.8	You're not cursed such as myself.
0:44.0	And I greatly dislike this.
0:45.6	This is true, training with my glasses on.
0:47.5	So when I wear my glasses, it basically means there's definitely something wrong with my eyes.
0:51.4	We've been working international. I've had some things going on, just like
0:54.8	some businesses where I'm up at 2, 3 a.m. It's serious stuff. Okay, folks, it's capitalism.
0:59.5	Anyways, my eyes feel like they're melting. Like, this is no joke where they get very teary
1:04.3	and all these other things. Anyways, all this to say that when I thought, oh, I'm going to read
1:09.7	once again a comment, it looked like
1:12.1	a Jackson Pollock painting the words. Now, this could just be the fact that I can't read.
1:17.9	But when I was looking at Eric, it was so funny, I was looking down at it because everything,
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