 What's up guys? What's up, familia? This is silent Mike and today this week I've had the pleasure to learn and work with the one and only Professor Boris Shaco from Russia the legendary the most influential powerlifting coach in the game and right now We have a series of dope content straight from the man's mouth a very cool interview And I'd also like to announce that we now have live in the description the best Translated Boris Shaco programs that have ever been here in the US or been in English And they are now available. Check them out below. There's a couple different options some powerlifting a little bit of offseason and different levels So check the description below the Boris Shaco Kaizen program is now available. Enjoy the video Now, this isn't a very common question I get because I think it's an American Cultural thing and maybe an issue even is that people don't know where to throw themselves and not that we have to categorize everything But you need to generally know speaking if you're a beginner intermediate and advanced Mr. Shaco, how do you kind of fit people into this and then what are some of the differences in training? Generally speaking between kind of a beginner and intermediate and advanced Opinion trainer Who will be able to do it from the technique and the method of training all the way So basically, you know the novice one is easy because you just show up to the gym and train much or novice and then Ideally you would find a very good coach in order to guide you through that process, but The question of novice to intermediate and intermediate to advanced is answered firstly by numbers Just how much you're lifting and secondly, it's also answered by the level of competition You should capable of entering and winning or entering in places For example, if you don't place at like a regional meet then you're probably not advanced and you may be intermediate If you start placing well at regional meets maybe your intermediate caliber And this of course isn't in the so much the developmental sets But what kind of programs you'll be able to benefit from most right and then if you are for example Meddling at the national level you make the US national team for example your IPF team Then it doesn't matter even if you've been training only for five years Then you're very much in the advanced sort of elite category So some more. Yeah loads falling you can handle because you're strong enough might as well push those a little bit That's the idea. Yeah, beautiful The So basically everyone when I come to the gym for the first time think that well everyone's stronger than me and everyone's so strong and as they progress they realize that Well, not everyone is quite strong, maybe two or three years later, not everyone around is strong. And then eventually, you know, there's still strong people to strive for. And eventually, there's very few people left. It seems like everyone's getting weaker. And you know, he said there's a Russian saying that at first you want to be sort of intermediate among the advanced, and then you want to be advanced among the intermediates. And then after that, you know, continue to ascend until you are at the highest level you're capable of. That's beautiful. Ladies and gentlemen, you just watched a quick clip of the interview I had with the one and only Dr. Boris Shaco, and where I tried to ask him his definitions between beginner, advanced, intermediate, because when we kind of talked off-camera, we got a good taste that he was super precise in everything he did. And here in America, I feel like strength sports are starting to catch up. I mean, he has a PhD in heavy training, which basically just means like barbells and throwing, like squat bench dead, cleaning jerk snatch, and then shot put, discus, etc. So how precise he is with everything he says and everything he programs and does. And when we tried to make this program for everybody, we were trying to figure out what in our words or our thoughts or our language or here in America would translate and make him understand what we were trying to get at because in America, I feel like the difference between a beginner, intermediate, and advanced still is kind of fuzzy. Everyone has their own definition. And before that, you know, I only thought about it as one way as many other people do where a beginner, you can kind of, it's almost how often you can gain strength or PR. Where a beginner, you know, you can kind of just be linear and you can gain five or 10 pounds on your lift every single week. And then an intermediate, maybe you can PR every four weeks or every eight weeks. And then in advanced lifters, PRing every eight, 12, 16 weeks to maybe 16 weeks, depending on how advanced you are or how old you are, or for me, my old definition was probably more by training age. And not to say that my definitions, right or wrong, but how Mr. Shaco looks at it, I think is very interesting because he's looking at it at what athletes are going to be champions because he only basically works with the national level team and both weightlifting and powerlifting. So he's looking at which people have the potential to handle what type of training rather than how long the athlete's training, what they need right now or what he's categorizing the athlete by their potential in the future rather than just actually trying to categorize them where he said, basically, if this guy is, you know, if a 200 pound guy is deadlifting 600 pounds, he doesn't really care if he's been training for three or one years or one to three years, either way, he's going to be able to give this guy a certain amount of volume and a certain type of training because he is at that strength to lift that amount of weight at that body weight, which I find very interesting. And I do think that like Dr. Mike translated that if you are at a national level, you can kind of throw out how often you've been training or how long you've been training. Now, that's not to say that every national level lifter can train the exact same way because training, age, actual age, injuries, impingements, whatever do play a role in exercise selection, the amount of volume you can have, but it's more likely that those people, you know, going back to my definition, need 8, 16, 24 weeks to PR just purely because of the strength level and how close they are to the ceiling. It's not always the case that a beginner that can get to a 700 pound deadlift quickly will deadlift 1200 pounds. So the roof, the ceiling may be the same and that's kind of when that uniqueness or that individuality comes only really comes to the advanced lifter. If you're kind of, again, a beginner, you just find a good coach, you get pretty linear, you really work on your form and technique and you figure it out. And then the intermediate, I think Shaco, I don't know if he said it in this video or off air, but he basically said that more people are intermediate than they think. The intermediate pile is very, very big. It's a broader spectrum and that's where he kind of referenced, I think, to, you know, you become the bottom of intermediate and try to become the middle of an intermediate and then an advanced intermediate and then maybe you're an advanced. You try to get to the top of each thing, but that intermediate pile is very long because once you can stop adding five pounds every week, you're an intermediate, but then even someone like me, because of my strength level, I might be to that top end of intermediate before I'm an actually an advanced lifter where the PRs are far from common. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this series. Be sure to give it a thumbs up. We've got more videos dropping from Mr. Boris Shaco. Share it with your friends. Subscribe, turn on the notifications and we'll see you in the next one.