Silent Mike/Omar/Bart Kizen Powerlifting Program

[ro98pt]

I've acquired the 12 Week Peaking Program + Silent Mike's Infinite Off Season Program.

The off season program has me doing Barbell Rows and Block Pulls one day, and the day after you should do Lat Pulldowns. What do you think about it?
Isn't it counter-productive?
Other than that the program looks great!

[sooby]

Haven't seen the program. But I'd probably trust anything that Silent Mike puts out.

[ro98pt]

The program is solid. You're right, Silent Mike is one strong/big/smart dude. I should trust the program right?!

[sooby]

yessir

[NorthStrong]

Doing some lat work often is fine. Not sure about the rest of the program, but I typically train lats 4x a week, MT ThF.

[themonkay]

Its fine. I'm currently doing a row/pulldown 4-5x per week as well.

[screamingjesus]

only thing I don't like is the name. kaizen is japanese for continuous improvement or something, so if you work in a corporate environment it's a ****ing buzzword.

[ro98pt]

The program looks amazing! I'm really excited to start it, wanna get strong as helllllll

[_Aggression_]

Most routines/programs out there for PL'ing have a lot of back work. I usually train some part of the back (rows, pullups, pulldowns) 3-4x a week.

[ro98pt]

Thanks for the replies! On my way to get strong as hell!

[elroca209]

I'm starting Strength and Fatloss Program - 12 Week from Silent Mike and his crew today. I'm little hesitant with the calorie intake.3200 calories for the first week and then every week brings it down 100 calories. I want to keep my strength and loose weight at the same time. Do you guys think this is possible? I do trust in Silent Mike. He is very knowledgeable and knows what he is doing.

[ro98pt]

Follow and trust the plan

[orion792]

you paid for a program,then went on bodybuilding.com asking if the program is good?are you ****ing serious?

[jonglo]

you paid for a program,then went on bodybuilding.com asking if the program is good?are you ****ing serious?

well, he said "acquired"

[zubairs]

Can you guys recommend if getting the online coaching for a month by Omar/Bart/Silent would be worth it? It's only costing $ 7 for the Black Friday offer though.

[screamingjesus]

Can you guys recommend if getting the online coaching for a month by Omar/Bart/Silent would be worth it? It's only costing $ 7 for the Black Friday offer though.

For powerlifting, Mike seems like a good and experienced coach and has personally achieved things in powerliting. I don't know anybody who Bart has coached. he owns a gym and has a successful youtube channel, he has competed in powerlifting but none of these things prove he can coach. Omar Isuf has a successful youtube channel and powerlifted as a hobby, I do not know of anyone he has trained, and he seems to be more interested in aesthetics than powerlifitng. He has never competed to my knowledge.

So for me this team-up seems like a way to capitlise on youtube popularity and name value when really they only have 1 experienced coach. Does this mean it wont be good? Who knows. It's 7 bucks, just try it.

[Joesywhales]

Silent mike has trained with mark bell for years. No way he didn't learn anything. Would trust his program, other 2 are plebs just banking on silent mikes skill. They did it together for marketability.

[Spaja]

Silent mike has trained with mark bell for years. No way he didn't learn anything. Would trust his program, other 2 are plebs just banking on silent mikes skill. They did it together for marketability.

Omar has been training with Jeremy Hamilton who is stong as f***. So I think that he also knows a thing or two. He has 365 bench, 600 deadlift and soon 500 high bar squat. And he isnt even a powerlifter. So he definalty know stuff

[screamingjesus]

Omar has been training with Jeremy Hamilton who is stong as f***. So I think that he also knows a thing or two. He has 365 bench, 600 deadlift and soon 500 high bar squat. And he isnt even a powerlifter. So he definalty know stuff

He never deadlifted 600, 365 bench was touch and go and "soon" 500 high bar lol who cares. Who has he trained? The first question when hiring a trainer is "Who have they trained." Training at the same gym as Jeremy Hamilton is not a qualification.
Someone with semi decent genetics doing a few good lifts on youtube doesn't mean anything. There are real trainers out there who coach actual powerlifters, and then there are youtube famous 'trainers' who cash in on their clueless followers.

[KillerBEA]

He never deadlifted 600,

https://www.instagram.com/p/BbCq2RmA...en-by=omarisuf

[screamingjesus]

I stand corrected. I guess he's a good coach now.

[308smk]

Lmao at taking programming from YouTube personalities

[boss2450]

Will this get me fat, considering I won't be moving as much at high intensity

[Rags85]

Will this get me fat, considering I won't be moving as much at high intensity

Eating lots of fatty foods will get you fat. Following an exercise program will not.

[dustinC001]

I've acquired the 12 Week Peaking Program + Silent Mike's Infinite Off Season Program.

The off season program has me doing Barbell Rows and Block Pulls one day, and the day after you should do Lat Pulldowns. What do you think about it?
Isn't it counter-productive?
Other than that the program looks great!

how did you like the program? Did you mostly see just a strength transformation or did you notice a physique transformation too?

[strengthisfirst]

I ran the off season program twice last year. I made some small progress.

S: 325 lbs -> 330 lbs
B: 205 lbs -> 215 lbs
D: 375lbs -> 385 lbs
O: 150 lbs -> 155 lbs

I made progress but I did not enjoy running the program. But since my numbers went up, what is there to complain about?