I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the readers and commenters, this is the first time I've tried to make free and clear guidance available that will help as many people as possible to be as strong as I hope they can be. And I enjoy all the feedback you give me, some tell me that the tips I gave here helped them progress, whether it's in technique, planning or everything I write here, which makes me happy and encourages me to continue. And more importantly, some of you have written about the challenges and difficulty in implementing what I recommend, and sometimes come to me with questions about things I didn't remember to write. I'm constantly learning from you how to write and make it more accessible.
I will write here what I think is sometimes the difficulty in implementing my recommendations, in the hope that you will be able to overcome these difficulties.
1. Personally, I have read a lot of books on powerlifting, some I got for free, and some I paid a lot of money for. Although the books I paid for were perhaps less effective or famous, they helped me more. It was mentally easier to read the entire book, and remember and apply what I learned in the best way, and psychologically every word written in these books feels more valuable, and easier to appreciate. That is why I recommended to the free information collectors who read this, try to be creative in reading every line and word I write, many of the questions that come to me are answered in the article itself, and probably missed by skimming too quickly. I wrote everything slowly and with a lot of thought, I recommend that you read the articles in a similar way.
2. You are not objective, you think you are doing everything right, but in reality it is far from true. I recommend filming yourself, and watching the video several times so that you understand if and what your mistake is. And it would be better if you enlist a friend or a few good friends to give you constructive criticism in a pleasant way (not the friend who says everything you do is bad, and not the one who always praises).
3. Not all of my tips can be clearly seen in the technique, a lot of them need to be felt. With such tips, it is worth concentrating well, and taking only one tip at a time, and not trying to improve everything in one fell swoop. Therefore, when I train someone, I do not only rely on what I see, I also want to hear how it feels. For example, I cannot feel which muscles were more seized after your training than others, or pain while performing the exercise.
4. I always say to try my advice with a low weight. I don't mean 5 kg less than usual, I mean more like half of the usual weight. At a heavy weight, the body will do everything to survive, the brain works on automatic, there is no chance to improve technique or learn new things that way.
Keep responding and writing to me so I know what to improve and change in the future. From you I learn how to formulate my words. As Thomas Lilly says, a coach needs to think about how the coachee will interpret his words in the worst way, and formulate them in a way that will make the fewest mistakes. My job is to formulate them in a way that will cause the fewest misunderstandings, and through your feedback, I learn exactly how it should be.
As a wise man said, "Rabbi Hanina said: I learned a lot from my teachers, and from my friends more than from my teachers, and from my students more than all of them" (Taanit, page 7).
