Ep. 214 - You Don’t Know Powerlifting Coaching (feat Matt Gary)

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Matt Gary is back on Iron Culture after being on way back in episode 16! This time he discusses nuances most people don’t know about game day powerlifting coaching, including even most powerlifters! With the explosion of participants in the sport, there are some weight classes where as many as five individuals could be a world champion depending on how their cards are played. Truly, it’s no longer a question of just who is the strongest, but who is the best powerlifter, which requires coaches to truly know “the game”. In this episode, one of the most decorated platform coaches in the sport’s history, Matt Gary, breaks down what those cards are, all four aces and the joker. Tune in, as this man literally wrote the book on game day coaching (which we’d recommend you read!)

Game Day Coaching Manual: A Powerlifting Coach’s Guide to Maximising Game Day Performance By Matt Gary https://www.supremesportspt.com/gameday-coaching-manual

00:00 An introduction to a very Canadian Eric and Matt Gary

Iron Culture Ep. 16- The Art of Coaching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1aGoBMPgYs

10:39 An overview of Matt’s coaching career

18:26 Matt’s strength and conditioning background

25:10 The ins and outs of gameday coaching

35:08 Taking a trip to the ATM and challenging the jury

43:14 Powerlifting technical jargon and application to some Sheffield match-ups

1:05:43 How Matt uses data to inform his practice

1:15:39 Determining the second attempt

1:25:17 Matt’s best advice for coaches

1:40:45 Closing out and where to find Matt

Supreme Sports Performance & Training https://www.supremesportspt.com/

Instagram @mlgary72 https://www.instagram.com/mlgary72/?hl=en

Transcript

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0:00.0	Eric.
0:02.9	What's going on, man? How you feeling?
0:06.4	Oh, you know, it's a good day here. It's a bit cold, as they say, saw a moose.
0:10.9	But, you know, can't complain. Shouldn't complain, really.
0:14.0	There's plenty of people who got worse out there than me, eh?
0:17.0	So you've been spending a lot of time in Wisconsin, it sounds like.
0:20.7	Oh, no, no, not Wisconsin. That's a little too far south. So, yeah. So you've been spending a lot of time in Wisconsin, it sounds like.
0:22.1	Oh, no, no, not Wisconsin.
0:23.2	That's a little too far south.
0:24.2	So, yeah.
0:26.3	Oh, what is it? Ann Arbor, Michigan?
0:27.3	Michigan.
0:28.5	Also too far south.
0:30.5	You know, you're up there in Tarana.
0:32.6	You know, that's, you know, I haven't been there yet, but it's a good place.
0:36.1	And yeah, so just, just doing my thing.
0:39.7	Oh, do your thing. What brings you to be further up north, Eric?
0:44.4	Well, I just found out today via email. I don't know if you guys got that over in Tirana,
0:49.5	but got accepted as the head coach for the CPU. That's the Canadian powerlifting union,
0:54.3	so that's me, head coach, Canadian Powerlifting Union for Sheffield. We got the whole
0:59.6	national team that I'm coaching, which consists of Jessica Bidner. Oh, I mean, that's a very
1:05.7	robust team. It is, now I want any Canadians in the comment section below.
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