Powerlifting cycle by Ed Coan

How did I become so incredibly strong in so short time? The answer is hard training and good food, you think. Wrong!!! Well I train rather hard but I do not eat like the books say you should (yes, you could call me a "sausage lifter").

When I first started with powerlifting I had been training (I wasn´t that serious) for some years but I had never trained my legs so I focused on the legs for the first few months with incredible results thanks to the king of powerlifting Ed Coan. I watched a training film about him and followed his cycle. I recommend this to everybody. I started with powerlifting november 1996 and did a total of 390 kg weighing 74,4 kg. This was in march 1997.

Well, I tell you about Ed Coan´s training cycle. It goes something like this over a 16 week period.

First set up a fixed weight.

Then increase the weight little by little and reduce the number of reps.

Look at my Ed Coan inspired cycle below and think about it. I only show the squat cycle but my Benchpress and Deadlift cycle look the same.

When I composed this cycle I had squatted 202,5 kg in a contest weighing 82,4 kg.

Week	Weight	Reps	Equipment
16	220 kg	1	Belt + Straps + Powersuit
15	210 kg	2	Belt + Straps + Powersuit
14	200 kg	2	Belt + Straps + Powersuit
13	180 kg	3	Belt + Straps + Powersuit (down)
12	175 kg	3	Belt + Straps
11	170 kg	3	Belt + Straps
10	160 kg	5	Belt
9	155 kg	5	Belt
8	150 kg	5	Belt
7	145 kg	6	Belt
6	140 kg	6	Belt
5	135 kg	8	Belt
4	130 kg	8	Belt
3	125 kg	10	Belt
2	120 kg	10	Belt
1	115 kg	10	Belt

* This is only how it could look like.