Jamie Smith's Coaching Model

In this episode, guest Jamie Smith of Melbourne Strength Culture joins Anas to discuss some of the tenants of his coaching philosophy and key ideas that can help lifters to guide their training into the next level. Anas and Jamie delve into topics such as how to optimize variables within your training and how you can structure your own framework as well as resources to use to get ideas to create your training model.

In this mult-part series; David and Anas take a deep dive into the main points that can help you manage training and find trends within your own training to help keep you lifts progressing. David and Anas go over the how having wide training experiences and a longevity mindset can be more beneficial for long term progression and how all this can be used as meaningful data. They talk about the progression from block to block and how most lifters that still make progress within powerlifting are the ones that rebound from injuries and continue to learn from their mistakes. As always listen to us every week and tune in for new episodes!

Block structure, personal experiences, and how to set yourself up with secret exercises in order to achieve your powerlifting potential! Anas and David take another deep dive into how to troubleshoot training resources and how to see trends in movement and how to get the most out of your training blocks. They also compare past methods seen in their experiences and how programs now address modern problems. As always tune in to Chalk My Back every Tuesday!

In this episode of Chalk My Back! Anas and David talk about problem solving and movement as it relates to powerlifting as well as how one can find issues in their own training to be able to make progress. As Anas and David delve deeper into movement constraints and issues they also give personal examples as to what they've seen as coaches and what problems they've encountered with powerlifting athletes. Tune in and as always this is Chalk My Back!

In this episode of Chalk My Back! Anas and Abe talk about the recent news and talk about the events that have been occuring between Israel and Palestine. Anas covers the history of the conflict with how it started and arose and how the territory came to be while Abe gives us the context and more current events and how they tie in what the news might talk about. Join in as we discuss a topic that is dear to the hosts and as always tune in to us every Tuesday wherever you listen to podcast.

It's been a while CMB gang but we're back with a banger for you guys! In this episode the boys go over some life PR's as well as recap raw nationals. Anas gives us the play by play as to his entire experience as well as some behind the scenes of the meet that offers some unique perspective as to what the whole experience of raw nationals is like. Does Josh get his pro card? Abe is now a world champion? Anas is Mr. International using his pro card to get into the mother land? All this and more on this episode of Chalk My Back!

In this episode we are joined by Nevin Saju a DPT who specializes in helping those who want to get back to either lifting to their fullest or being better at their respective sport! We also get into his origin story with how he started PT school his why and how he got to where he is in his Physical Therapy journey. Along the way Nevin gives us some personal insight into how he treats his patients to how he found powerlifting and then some personal life details that influence what he does in his own training and his how he views the physical therapy space as a whole. Does Abe finally get to chalk some cheeks? Anas gets into the rice and beans of pain science? Josh is now a full fledged PT and a chiropractor? All this and more on this episode of Chalk My Back!

In this episode we discuss where we've been for the past couple weeks since our last upload as well as what we've got planned for the future! Josh talks about a recent home project while Anas gives up a meet recap for his athlete Mae at the TBS meet. Along the way we discuss commentary that we did for equipped nationals as well as future plans to do more commentary to bring you the fans more CMB takes!

In this episode of Chalk My Back! We finish the three part series of diving into each of our host and what their own respective journeys through powerlifting have been. Abe closes out the series with a look into his start with powerlifting and how powerlifting flows in different priorities and how to balance lifting, friends, being a father and more! Tune in as we give you the keys to finding how to fine tune your schedule to fit whatever busy life you might have as well as how to prioritize lifting to your lifestyle if you are feeling like you don't have the time or at a low point in your lifting career. Abe finally does a strongman competition? Anas is a Pro USAPL commentator? Josh is back on the good good? All this and more on this episode of Chalk My Back!

In this episode of Chalk My Back! We get to hear Anas's journey with the beginning of powerlifting and what motivates him now being a pro powerlifter. Anas gives us the origin details as to what first got him into lifting, what he thought of the layout of powerlifting as he started and how the community has evolved ever since he began. Josh and Abe also ask him questions along the way in terms of his first plan with his career, what he does with his free time, and how his training philosophy had changed or how it has adapted as he becomes more and more in tune with his training. Will Anas become one of the top 75kg lifters? Does he finally give us the secret sauce stack? What is being a pro powerlifter like? All this and more on this episode of Chalk My Back!