Picture an advanced lifter, eight weeks out from a meet, or eight weeks out from a true one-rep-max test day. The base is built. The years are in the legs and the back and the calluses. What is left is the sharpening. What is left is the runway.
This is Programme Five — the eight-week powerlifting peak. A coach-designed peaking protocol for trainees who already have the strength and now need to express it on a specific day.
Inside this one
- Eight weeks, four sessions a week — three three-week blocks plus a meet week
- Block One volume, Block Two intensity, Block Three peak — engineered, not improvised
- Spreadsheet takes your tested one-rep max and calculates every working load across thirty-two sessions
- Taper protocol drawn from Bosquet and Mujika and Padilla — fifty to seventy per cent volume reduction in the final week
- Meet-day attempt-selection rules — opener, second, third — and a one-rep override rule for missed singles
- Audio explanation layer plus spreadsheet execution layer
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