Train like a Beginner - WIN the Olympics feat. Olivia Reeves
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2024
- We interviewed Paris 2024 Olympic Gold Medalist Olivia Reeves (71kg USA) about her training leading up to the Olympics. We do a deep dive and summary of the unusual training approach that helped Olivia Reeves win GOLD in Paris 2024. This includes:
her unorthodox training schedule (way less than nearly all top athletes)
how she and her coach work from day to day
her strength PRs
how she built her strength early on
how often (and how heavy) she does the classic lifts
how her training changed over the 9 years she's been with her coach
There is a lot of great training advice from Olivia, and she is exceptionally clear and cogent about not just WHAT she and her coach do but WHY they do things a certain way. It's a master class in effective training AND coaching!
As always, thank you all for your support. Enjoy, and let us know your thoughts and questions in the comments! BONUS question: who was the US's last Olympic Champion before Olivia?
-Dr Boffa & Gregor
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I love her happy smile when she makes a personal best on the platform. Pure Gold!!
Recovery is the key, she also sleeps about 10 hours a day & eats overall very well. Same key for Masters lifters.
It's so impressive to me that she just trusts the process and does what she needs to do to train optimally. I love watching the bulgarians hammering away for hours day after day in the 80s, and obviously that works amazingly well.... But, as they say, any fool can be tough...
What the bulgarians are doing is counter productive if: the athlete is a heavy weight or older as this is a recipe for over-training&injury(notice how you don't see that many of them competing past 30yrs old)
The more massive/older an athlete gets in any strength sport the more rest he/she needs in between sessions to recover and by that I don't mean body building because there you are never working with anywhere close to maximal loads and most of the time is spent on machines that don't allow anything bad to happen in case you reach failure (safeties are in place).
Only time the bulgarian approach is warranted is during the early years of a lifter when technique has to get drilled in on a daily basis to perfect it and while the lifter is still very young and has got very good recovery potential(as hes still a teenager/ in hes early twenties)
I wonder how much of this is also what is called “beginner’s mind” in Zen - having an attitude of openness, eagerness, and lack of preconceptions when studying, even at an advanced level, just as a beginner would.
great insight into how she trains. I love watching her, she is a beast
There’s talent, and then there’s what Olivia Reeves has. She’s genuinely next level. Such an interesting insight into her training. Which, unlike the average elite athlete’s training: I can actually use...(even as a talentless 45 year old)!
Olivia is brutally strong. I really like her, always a pleasure to watch. A really good rolemodel in terms of dedication and grit. A true great sportswoman.
Gregor and david, these videos you guys have been making the last years have really been hitting it out of the park each time. Such great content qualitatively. You actually shine a light on things I want to know and fully delve into them rather than just paying lip service. Great job guys!
Many years ago I trained at the Sports Palace, which was operated by Jim Schmitz. What Olivia describes is quite similar to the programs created by Jim. Furthermore, I recall that Mario Martinez, who was coached by Jim, would self-regulate by making adjustments to a workout according to how he was performing on that particular day. Worked pretty well for him.
Great video! Love learning about these training approaches and she's such a great athlete.
In my view, "training like a beginner" is the wrong way to think about it.
Training without sufficient rest is not training, it's beating yourself half to death.
Without adequate recovery, progress cannot happen, regardless of the program.
beginners can rest
If that’s how you choose to think about it, then yeah. When I hear ‘train like a beginner” I think Fundementals, repetition, nothing fancy, trying to master the basics as best you can. No fancy complexes or crazy things, just good old fashioned weightlifting.
@@michalmajernik everyone should rest.
When advanced lifters decide not to, that is when they get injured. Recovery is even more important for advanced lfters.
The philosophy of her training sounds a great deal like what Tommy Kono tried to teach for years through his seminars, books, and ABCs of weightlifting articles.
She's incredible for sure 👍
Awesome stuff. I would like to maybe get your take on video in regards to the conjugate system for OLY LIFTING, not necessarily the westside style but maybe when it first started back in the old Soviet days.
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One of my favorite athletes in the world.
Great video! If I had to critique anything, I would like to see a bit more of Olivia and the actual interview. That being said, I'm sure a lot of people who don't read between the lines very well would benefit from the small inferences.
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She meant 80% for 15 total reps surely (i.e. 3x5 or 3x5)? Rather than sets of 15?
Definitely total reps - could be 3x5, 5x3, 8x2, 15x1
I like that her coach allows her to still do absolutely ridiculous movements like bench pressing
She's amazing.
it's impressive and somewhat unorthodox as far as I understand that someone can keep making progress for ten years without altering the training. And also many professional lifters would probably say their technique/lifting would degenerate from going back to that kind of program. There are seemingly as many ways to the top as there are people, as we've seen lifters from different systems rise to the top.
Most powerlifting/strength programs that I've seen/had success with were four days max. You could an extra day of accessory work but if it messed with the recovery you would cut it out.
Phenomenal strength
this is gold
Thanks!
Incredible performance
Training like a beginner isn't a bad thing. Why make it harder than absolutely necessary? I've been training for for 25 years and I love running 5/3/1. Why? Because it keeps working.
'Science' training bros are SEETHING right now
This is a very scientific approach. First principle thinking...the minimum effective dosage should always be used when it comes to stressing an athlete to elicit a response. Steve Fauer is a smart coach.
The strongest and the cutest 😍
One armed snatches 😮😅😮😂
Lower frequency training is probably better for body health overall and probably less "pharmaceuticals" needed.
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Looking fine 🌹
Wait for my shout out in 28
Cross-fit will be happy to have done at least one good thing before vanishing into oblivion: give the world the greatest Olympic weightlifter in US history
With apologies to the GOAT, Mark Twain, rumors of Crossfit’s death are greatly exaggerated.
LMAO imagine if she up her training volume
as long as she doesn't get injured she's gonna shatter records at LA 28
She is training at the correct volume.
Training without sufficient recovery is not training anymore. It's damaging.
Clarence Kennedy got his training volume upped by Polish coaches and ended up needing two knee surgeries.
Why would she go her volume if what she’s doing is working for her?! The advantage of how she’s currently training is she can work at much higher relative intensities to someone who trains higher volume/frequency
She is less likely to get hurt than the person who trains 8-10 sessions a week
She’s cute too and still very feminine 💪 😮