Do you have general thoughts on Starting Strength and how it prepares people for powerlifting? If someone aspires to compete, at what point would you deprioritize the press and focus on the bench (especially given touch and go will get you reds)? During the NLP? After? Do you generally train clients who want to focus on powerlifting differently than people who want general strength development (I guess this goes both ways for people who want to compete in strongman which has more overhead stuff)?
(I'm a 19 year old who finished the Novice Program as written, and am starting the Texas Method, and feel my bench is really lagging.)
For the bench, moving to a bench focus after the novice LP is fine as long as you're still doing some pressing. Obviously you have to practice paused bench before a meet, even if you do one during the LP itself.
For more real specific PL stuff, I'd wait til after the early intermediate phase, when you can no longer make reliable progress every 1-2 weeks.
Do you have general thoughts on Starting Strength and how it prepares people for powerlifting? If someone aspires to compete, at what point would you deprioritize the press and focus on the bench (especially given touch and go will get you reds)? During the NLP? After? Do you generally train clients who want to focus on powerlifting differently than people who want general strength development (I guess this goes both ways for people who want to compete in strongman which has more overhead stuff)?
(I'm a 19 year old who finished the Novice Program as written, and am starting the Texas Method, and feel my bench is really lagging.)
For the bench, moving to a bench focus after the novice LP is fine as long as you're still doing some pressing. Obviously you have to practice paused bench before a meet, even if you do one during the LP itself.
For more real specific PL stuff, I'd wait til after the early intermediate phase, when you can no longer make reliable progress every 1-2 weeks.
How would that change for strongmen clients? Do you do that or not really?