Specifically Chris will be looking at:

• What speciality bars are
• How they improve strength and performance
• Chris' favourite bars

*About Chris

"Using his engineering degree and MBA, he spent nearly 20 years becoming a sought-after turnaround expert in the aerospace, automotive, and industrial equipment manufacturing sectors. But most people know him for his work after moving on from that career, founding his own Education and Manufacturing companies focused on biomechanics, human movement, and personal development. As an award-winning expert in these fields, he holds patents and has been recognized for scientific innovation, and is a desired keynote speaker.

In the sports performance world, Chris’s work is everywhere. His game-changing products are used in nearly every professional sports team in North America, all the big-name colleges and a thousand others, all military branches (white house included), and so many more. His concepts have changed the landscape of strength training in improving performance and the systemized approaches to assessing and correcting human movement dysfunctions.

With extremes again, Chris is not just a recognized thought leader but has held numerous all-time world records and become one of the strongest pound-for-pound powerlifters in the world. He holds the Guinness World Record for the heaviest sumo deadlift of all time, with 1001 pounds for almost three repetitions. He also completed the same feat with a 1001lbs squat making him the only human in history to have Squatted and Deadlifted 1000+lbs for reps. He used these feats of strength to raise money and awareness for charities related to his upbringing."

Social media: @mad_scientist_duffin

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Specifically Greg will be looking at:

• Physiological advantages of cluster sets
• Disadvantages in using cluster sets
• What ascending cluster sets are
• Case study: How to use cluster sets to improve performance

*About Greg

"I am the course coordinator at Edith Cowan University and their master's a strength conditioning. I'm really into strength and I've been into strength since I was really young. At 11 I got introduced to strength training and I've been on that journey for the last 40 years of just trying to find out how to be the strongest I can be. So that took me all over the world to learn from all kinds of people academically as an athlete. And at the moment I'm a professor of strength. I mentor grad students and we try to answer questions that are really relevant to people's training, always in that strength domain, but in different ways."

Social media: @Doc_Haff

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Specifically Steve will be looking at:

• Obstacled to VBT use
• Best practice in VBT
• How anyone can use VBT to optimise training for under $10

About Steve

"Steve Thompson is an accredited Strength & Conditioning coach with the United Kingdom Strength and Conditioning Association (UKSCA) and a Senior Lecturer and the Course Leader for the MSc in Strength and Conditioning Coaching at Sheffield Hallam University. He has recently submitted his PhD in VBT, but more specifically, the use of load-velocity profiling to aid load prescription. Steve is an active early-career researcher, with publications in high-impact journals such as Sports Medicine, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research and International Journal of Sport Physiology and Performance. He currently holds multiple S&C consultancy roles, including City of Sheffield and GB Diving and Barnsley Football Club. Steve has a wealth of experience in elite sport, specifically with GB Commonwealth medallists and Olympic competitors in Diving, Women's Volleyball and Table Tennis, as well as with professional athletes in Rugby League, Tennis, Fencing and Golf. "

Twitter: Steve381
Instagram: stevethompson99t

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Specifically Mona will be looking at:

• Importance of psychology in lifting heavy
• Tools you can use to improve lifting
• How to develop your pre-lift routine
• Her pre-lift routine

About Mona

Mona Pretorius de Lacey is a 6-time Karate World Champion, CrossFit Games athlete as well as a Commonwealth Games medalist in Olympic Weightlifting. She is currently in the South African squad for the Olympic Games in 2021 in Tokyo. Mona also has an Honours Degree in Sport Psychology as well as an Honours Certificate in Mindfulness Training.

"For now, my main goal is the Olympics and my Online business as a Coach. After the Olympics, I would like to be able to build on the Sport Psychology side of things and have my own practice in the next 12 months and work as a Mental Performance Coach. Eventually, (Goal: To start in the next 5 Years) I would love to get my Ph.D. in Sport Psychology. It's another big goal but something I have been wanting to do for years."

You can find out more about Mona at rawrstrength.com or Instagram: @powerfulpretorius

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Specifically Steve will be looking at:

• Key reasons to use VBT
• Essential practical applications of VBT
• Future of VBT

About Steve

"Steve Thompson is an accredited Strength & Conditioning coach with the United Kingdom Strength and Conditioning Association (UKSCA) and a Senior Lecturer and the Course Leader for the MSc in Strength and Conditioning Coaching at Sheffield Hallam University. He is also a PhD candidate majoring in Velocity Based Training (VBT), but more specifically, the use of load-velocity profiling to aid load prescription. Steve is an active early-career researcher, with publications in high-impact journals such as Sports Medicine, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research and International Journal of Sport Physiology and Performance. He currently holds multiple S&C consultancy roles, including City of Sheffield and GB Diving and Barnsley Football Club. Steve has a wealth of experience in elite sport, specifically with GB Commonwealth medallists and Olympic competitors in Diving, Women's Volleyball and Table Tennis, as well as with professional athletes in Rugby League, Tennis, Fencing and Golf. "

Twitter: Steve381
Instagram: stevethompson99t

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Specifically Tina & David will be looking at:

• Training adaptations due to COVID
• Periodisation during lockdown
• Mental demands of lockdown on athletes

About Tina & David:

Tina: "I have a very varied background in education and as a master trainer. I was a commonwealth games coach in 2010, 2014 and 2018, with gold medallist David Liti. We’ve also been to a number of world championships now, I’m very passionate about the sport, and I’m loving it!"

David: "My name is David Liti, I am an Olympic weightlifter representing New Zealand, I dabbled with weightlifting from 2009, just playing around with it until 2014. I’ve been competitive from 2015 until now, and have been to the Junior Worlds in 2016, and Senior Worlds in 2017, 2018, and 2019. I was commonwealth gold medallist in 2018, and I’m hoping to go to Tokyo next year."

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Specifically Nick will be looking at:

• Why cueing is important
• What options we have when cueing
• Best practice in cueing

About Nick:

"I've been a strength coach for 15 years, I've been the head of performance at Irish Rubgy for four, and was at EXOS for 10 years. I think the main moment where the idea around language and communication came in to play was during my tenure as NFL combine lead starting back in 2009."

Language of Coaching:

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