Mike Tuchscherer – Reactive Training Systems – Programming with Emerging Strategies

Learning the Fundamental Concepts of Emerging Strategies

Some athletes simply don’t respond well to any of the traditional peaking strategies and some tolerate very low levels of volume. Emerging Strategies is all about figuring out our individual differences and plan training accordingly.

To write training that is as close to ideal as possible you need to know the fundamentals on how to create training ‘from the ground up’.

In module one, you’re going to learn:

• How to measure the recovery cost of training to ensure successful training results.
• How monitor your athletes training to track their recovery
• The problems with classic planning models and how Emerging Strategies attempts to solve some of those.

The Basics of Writing a Training Program with Emerging Strategies

There are many different ways that you can start building a training micro cycle, but there are some critical components to that structure that’s core to Emerging Strategies. We’ll learn about Time To Peak (TTP), development cycles, pivot cycles, maintenance cycles, and how they flow together.

In module two, you’re going to learn:

• How to design strength blocks, deload blocks and maintenance blocks.
• How to peak for competition and long term planning in Emerging Strategies.
• How to fine tune the details and put together an ideal series of training blocks.

Next level programming: Refining the fundamentals

There are a few different things that can be adjusted in a lifter’s training to ensure they remain healthy while they keep progressing their lifts in both load and technical mastery. It’s important to learn what signals and data to pay attention to so that you can fine-tune the training details.

In module three, you’re going to learn:

• How to optimize some of the more nuanced details in this approach to training.
• Why we care about hypertrophy in the first place and what exercises, reps, RPE, nutrition strategies and stress levels are appropriate to achieve this training effect.
• How to break the stress index up into two different parts will allow you to paint a clear picture of what the training effects are as well as how they are combined to track a total level of stress.
• How to peak faster and how to peak slower.

Program like an RTS coach

Think of this module like a library of all the training programs most commonly used by the coaches at RTS. Each strategy has a different focus or intention around how it constructed in terms of sets/reps/intensity and the exercise strategies being used.

In module four, you’re going to learn:

• The nitty gritty details of how an RTS program is constructed and how you can implement it with your own lifters.
• The strengths and weakeness of tapers so that you can use them in the right situations for a lifter to perform as well as possible.
• How athletes like world champion and world record holder Brett Gibbs trained leading up to IPF Worlds and other specific case studies where Emerging Strategies were used.

Technical Mastery

This module is all about how to optimize your technique for the powerlifts.

In module five, you’re going to learn:

• How individual variations exist in the powerlifts.
•  Learn how the technique is optimized for the individual considerations and the role of self-discovery as well as the constraints of that approach.

Weakness Analysis & Correction

This module is all about how to identify and correct weak ranges of motion on the competition lifts.

In module six, you’re going to learn:

• How the technical models and degradations impact the assessment and analysis of where the weak points exist
• How to determine and analyze the weak range of motion and determine which muscle groups are in that analysis.
• Specifically, address the back position on the deadlift and improve the bench press bar path.

Exercise Toolbox

This module is all about how to implement special exercises to help improve strength at various points in the competition lifts.

In module seven, you’re going to learn:

• About parameters of pause variations, what effects they create, how demanding they are, and when it is best to implement them into the training.
• How varying the height of pins can change the effect, loading protocols to use, how they impact recovery, and when it is best to use these types of exercises.
• How to incorporate bands and chains into your training.
• The role of Eccentrics in assisting a lifter to produce force.
• How Extended Ranges of Motion can improve weak points in the competition lift.

Training Protocols

This module is all about how to implement special protocols that you can use in writing training to get certain desired effects.

In module eight, you’re going to learn:

• How to incorporate singles as a benchmark in your training programs along with considerations for implementation.
• How to incorporate Cluster Sets.
• How Myo-Reps can be included in a training program to improve hypertrophy.