Wisconsin Powerlifting News, Volume 2, Issue 1, March 20th, 2010, Page 3
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KAHLE - Continued from Front Page
RICH: I began lifting as a kid by sneaking into my neighbor's garage to use his dad's weights because our parents thought it would stunt our growth but I didn't start to seriously train until I was in high school football. Once football was over, I kept lifting and was into bodybuilding and working at a gym. The owner offered to pay my entry fee for a meet that some of the lifters at the gym were going to and I was hooked. No more dieting and I could lift heavy all the time.
I always loved to lift weights and the idea of being strong.
I always loved to lift weights and the idea of being strong.
Wendy: How is your training different for each meet?
RICH: At the start of my lifting career, I would just follow any program that I came across in PLUSA or one of the comic books (bodybuilding magazines) with the thought of just lifting more. I had no strategy or real concept of training beyond train harder and train more. Once I started to study the Soviet training plans, I really began to grasp the idea of long term planning for training. Once I began Olympic lifting, I was exposed to the concept of multi-year training cycles. The training programs I use now focus on certain physical or technical attributes.
In the past two years, I have been dealing with injuries and focusing on putting a whole three lift meet. Good technique, good attempt selections, good execution. This year, my first training cycle is for Western States and is a basic cycle to improve my work capacity after a layoff for injuries and is the setup for World Cup in August. Since a big deadlift is the goal for World Cup, the goal for this cycle is to improve my lower back strength and restore my leg strength. Upper body is also focused on my back and rotator cuff. For Masters Nationals, it will be to get a big squat. For Natural Nationals next year, a big bench press. Each cycle allows for more work on one lift while maintaining the others.
I have also added throwing for Highland Games and Masters Shotput. This has added a need for core strength that should benefit my powerlifting.
In the past two years, I have been dealing with injuries and focusing on putting a whole three lift meet. Good technique, good attempt selections, good execution. This year, my first training cycle is for Western States and is a basic cycle to improve my work capacity after a layoff for injuries and is the setup for World Cup in August. Since a big deadlift is the goal for World Cup, the goal for this cycle is to improve my lower back strength and restore my leg strength. Upper body is also focused on my back and rotator cuff. For Masters Nationals, it will be to get a big squat. For Natural Nationals next year, a big bench press. Each cycle allows for more work on one lift while maintaining the others.
I have also added throwing for Highland Games and Masters Shotput. This has added a need for core strength that should benefit my powerlifting.
Wendy: Do you have anybody that you consider to be a lifting mentor or somebody who motivates you?
RICH: My training mentors have always been in passing because southern New Mexico is almost devoid of powerlifting. Since my return to powerlifting, Mike Adelmann has been instrumental to my development as a lifter. His advice and assistance at meets has been key to me getting stronger, especially on bench press. It was his strongman meet that I was at when he says, "We're having a powerlifting meet here in two weeks..." and I came back to the Dark side.
Rich Peters has been very helpful at spotting little errors in my technique at competitions. His advice has also helped me put my attempts together to have my best potential totals.
Much of my training philosophy, came from Fred Hatfield , Dave Schroeder, and Supertraining from Mel Siff and Yuri Verkhoshansky.
As for motivation, my idols have always been the greats of the sport. In squats, Fred Hatfield and Dave Pansanella. On bench press, Tom Manno was a friend and someone to chase. Anthony Clark was my early hero. Deadlifting, Vince Anello and that picture in Arnold's Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding of Franco Columbu pulling always fired me up.
Rich Peters has been very helpful at spotting little errors in my technique at competitions. His advice has also helped me put my attempts together to have my best potential totals.
Much of my training philosophy, came from Fred Hatfield , Dave Schroeder, and Supertraining from Mel Siff and Yuri Verkhoshansky.
As for motivation, my idols have always been the greats of the sport. In squats, Fred Hatfield and Dave Pansanella. On bench press, Tom Manno was a friend and someone to chase. Anthony Clark was my early hero. Deadlifting, Vince Anello and that picture in Arnold's Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding of Franco Columbu pulling always fired me up.
Wendy: Where do you like to train and why?
RICH: I have my own gym that I have set up for strength sports. I can make it suit my mood, whether that is with loud rock music or total silence. I can train outside in the warm sunshine, except through our harsh southwest winters when it is only in the fifties in the afternoon. I openend my own place because I got kicked out of every other gym in town for using chalk, banging weights, or occupying the
squat rack
for an hour at a time.
Wendy: Is there a retired lifter, or somebody who is still lifting, who you consider to be your idol?
RICH: Paul Anderson was the strongest man to ever live. He was not just a great lifter but a great human being. Plus, his training programs are some of the best you can follow.
Wendy: How has being a
strength athlete
affected your personal life?
RICH: Everything in my life has been about being a strength athlete since I was eighteen and did my first powerlifting meet. I became a trainer originally because I got paid to teach and talk about what I love. I met my wife at the gym. My whole life has been devoted to me becoming the best strength athlete I can be.
Vince Lombardi would talk in "The Speech" about how football taught him all he knows. All I know comes from the feel of knurling on my back or in my hands. The lessons of life I learned from training and competing spread far beyond the technique for clean and jerk or squat. Descartes said, "Cognito ergo sum" (I think therefore I am). I say, "Attollo ergo sum" (I lift therefore I am.)
Vince Lombardi would talk in "The Speech" about how football taught him all he knows. All I know comes from the feel of knurling on my back or in my hands. The lessons of life I learned from training and competing spread far beyond the technique for clean and jerk or squat. Descartes said, "Cognito ergo sum" (I think therefore I am). I say, "Attollo ergo sum" (I lift therefore I am.)
Wendy: What are your personal goals over the next year or two?
RICH: Over the next year, I am shifting my emphasis from the pure powerlifting focus I have had over the past 8 years back to what it was when I returned to powerlifting. I want to be the best overall strength athlete. My goal is to compete at the national championships for powerlifting, weightlifting, strongman, and highland games in 2111. From a pure numbers stand point, I want to post a 2100 (800-600-700) powerlifting total, a 300kg (130 snatch, 170 clean and jerk) weightlifting total, and improve my throws in Highland Games by 20%.
I would also like to try my hand at Girevoy Sport. This is a Russian sport involving kettlebells that is for maximum repetitions not weight. So far, it has kicked my butt and I have failed to complete the event in training.
I would also like to try my hand at Girevoy Sport. This is a Russian sport involving kettlebells that is for maximum repetitions not weight. So far, it has kicked my butt and I have failed to complete the event in training.
Wendy: What is your favorite lifting event(curls, squat, benchpress, deadlift)?
RICH: My favorite lift is the squat. I was a good squatter from the time I learned what parallel is and have enjoyed being good at a lift all the meatscicles and tank top titans at the gyms I trained at couldn't do.
I will admit that hitting a big bench press is a huge ego booster and is a rush. Hitting a big deadlift is the most satisfying to me because it is the last lift of the day and means your training was right on and you are in shape.
I will admit that hitting a big bench press is a huge ego booster and is a rush. Hitting a big deadlift is the most satisfying to me because it is the last lift of the day and means your training was right on and you are in shape.
Wendy What are your
personal bests
in the gym and your personal bests in a meet?
RICH: My personal bests are 825 squat, 611 bench, 733 deadlift, and a 2116 total. I have not lifted big in the gym since I first returned to powerlifting. I can't reach that high emotional level in the gym that I get at a contest and rarely try a new PR.
Wendy: Where has been your favorite place to travel to, and compete, in a meet?
RICH: Favorite place to travel to for a meet has been Las Vegas but the best venue for a competition is at
Westwood High School
in Mesa, Arizona. Walt Sword and his kids always put a great meet on.
Wendy: What is your philosophy on training or where do you get your training tips?
RICH: My training philosophy is a big conglomeration of the knowledge I have picked up over the years. I was originally certified by the
International Sports Sciences
Association in 1994 and had the chance to get advice from Fred Hatfield. I used some training programs designed by Dave Schroeder and always gravitated to the Soviet/Russian training programs but always had to modify them because I could not keep up. I like to periodize my training to focus on different attributes over the year. I have read everything I can get my hands on related to training. I like to visit Rickey Dale Crain's table at the OKC meets to pick up any books I haven't read yet.
The best training books I have read are "The Science and Practice of Strength Training" by Vladimir Zatsiorsky, "Supertraining" by Mel Siff, "The Ten Commandments of Powerlifting " by Ernie Frantz and "The Complete Guide to Power Training" by Fred Hatfield. I lean heavily on the translations Bud Charniga made of the old Soviet training manuals for training theory but reading them is like stereo instructions. You have to read through a heap of stuff before you glean any usable concepts.
The best training books I have read are "The Science and Practice of Strength Training" by Vladimir Zatsiorsky, "Supertraining" by Mel Siff, "The Ten Commandments of Powerlifting " by Ernie Frantz and "The Complete Guide to Power Training" by Fred Hatfield. I lean heavily on the translations Bud Charniga made of the old Soviet training manuals for training theory but reading them is like stereo instructions. You have to read through a heap of stuff before you glean any usable concepts.
Wendy: Currently, do you have "rival" lifter who you would like to defeat on the platform?
RICH: For a while, Henry Thomason and I would butt heads on the platform but I can not touch his numbers now. It is an honor to share the platform with him. Before that, Justin Ransbottom was fun to have in my weight-class. I would love to top Joe Thompson's 11.0 coefficient but I like food way to much...
Wendy: Are you excited about the upcoming PRO meet?
RICH: Not for my own lifting but I am excited for the sport. Professional strength sports is something I like to see and I believe is good for the whole sport.
Wendy: Please discuss any topic we haven't touched on or anything you want people to know about you that we haven't discussed?
RICH: There is a whole heap that could go here. I believe that powerlifting, as well as all sports, teach so many life lessons that apply to the life off the platform and build character in those that participate. In my youth, I didn't pay attention to that but over time, I learned to be a good person, a good friend, and a true citizen because of the time I spent sacrificing, training, and with the numerous people that make up the NASA family. Thank you for being my friends and for all you have done for me.
RICH: There is a whole heap that could go here. I believe that powerlifting, as well as all sports, teach so many life lessons that apply to the life off the platform and build character in those that participate. In my youth, I didn't pay attention to that but over time, I learned to be a good person, a good friend, and a true citizen because of the time I spent sacrificing, training, and with the numerous people that make up the NASA family. Thank you for being my friends and for all you have done for me.
Rich Kahle squats 804 Lbs. at the Feb., 2005, Natural Nationals.