Redskins DE Phillip Daniels Opens Monster Garage Gym

Friday night is a big night for me, there’s a lot on the line. Actually I’m not leaving the house but I made a bet with my wife. She’s a huge Patriots fan and I’m a hardcore Redskins fan. It’s just preseason but our teams face each other this Friday.

The veterans don’t have a lot at stake, but as for me, well if the Pats win I’ll never hear the end of it.

One my favorite players is the NFL is Phillip Daniels who is a DE with the Washington Redskins going into his 14th season.

This guy is an Ox! Other than the fact that he slams QBs to the ground and is one of the best run-stuffers in the League, Phil is also an offseason Powerlifter.

I got him on the line to talk with us about a hardcore gym that he just opened up.

It’s called Monster Gargage Gym located in IL and he opened it with co-owner and 2 time WPC powerlifting champ Eric Maroscher.

As a skins fan, fellow powerlifter and the fact that I train at a barbell club and warehouse gym myself I definitely want to help get the word out about this new facility.

Visit MonsterGarageGym.com

Some of today’s fitness centers just make me sick, so I’m happy every time I hear about one of these underground barbell clubs opening up.

Enjoy the interview….Phil is a real down to Earth guy and you’re gonna love his energy.

Go Skins!

Mike Westerdal
(Fan since the 5th grade)

P.S. Why am I Skins fan when I live in Tampa Bay? Because I was born in raised in northern VA and because I like watching them destroy the Bucs! That’s right, I said it!

Training footage from Monster Garage Gym, featuring members of the Maroscher Powerlifting Team and NFL Washington Redskins Defensive End, Phillip Daniels

 
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Up Your Bench

I used to be a private personal trainer. It was great working one on one with clients and watching them get stronger and increase their bench.

Than I started selling my workouts online and realized that I could help a lot more people via the Internet than I ever could on an individual basis.

I still seek out the strongest and smartest people I can to train with and than often times I share that information here on the blog and the Web site.

I have to admit though, sometimes I do miss training people. Okay I don’t miss getting up at 5 am one bit, that’s true. But it felt real good to see young guys grow into men as they built their bodies and their confidence. It’s awesome to see the look on someone’s face after they hit a PR in the bench.

It sure beats getting an email about how someone hit a new record in the bench. But keep sending those emails too, I still love getting them.

What I do feel about is the people that want to the one-on-one attention. I simply don’t have the time to devote to it right now.

That’s where my buddy AJ Roberts of Westside Barbell comes in. He’s a pro powerlifter and has benched over 700 in competition. He has put together a video coaching program called the Up Your Bench system.

Am I crazy for telling you about a competitor of mine? Someone else who wants to help you with your bench and I’m sending you away to go to buy their product?

Ya that’s right. I don’t think of it as competition. We all just want to increase our bench press and if there’s something new out there that can help us do that than I’m going to tell you about it.

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Chris Janek Totals 2502 At Only Third Powerlifting Meet

Chris Janek competed in the 2009 UPA Powerlifting Nationals held in Dubuque, IA - April 2009

Chris Janek (308) represented Critical Bench totalling 2,502 pounds in only his third meet. Janek squatted 1,036 pounds, benched 727, and deadlifted 738 pounds.

Luke Allison of Critical Bench interviews Janek in this podcast discussing the meet and training leading up to the meet.

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Interview With Powerlifter Eric Talmant

Luke Alisson of CriticalBench.com conducted this interview with powerlifter Eric Talmant.

Eric is a metabolic typing advisor and the founder of the Raw Unity Meet.

In this interview Luke digs deep and gets Eric talking about some of these topics that I found interesting and I think you will too.

Luke said it best after the interview. He told me this guy really cares about the sport of powerlifting.

• In powerlifting there are many “national champions”. The quantity of people that legitimately claim this title actually devalues the title.
• How the Raw Unity Meet can determine a raw champion even though it’s not a sanctioned meet.
• Comparing powerlifting to boxing. How at one time boxing had multiple feds and multiple champions and nobody could really say who the official champ was.
• It’s all connected. Sponsors, television coverage, prize money and drawing big lifters.
• Eric walking the walk. How he’s going back to the gear.
• Eric talks about not putting crap down your pie hole!
• Walking the dogs and how it helps GPP.
• Contrast showers, vinegar baths and recovering from workouts!

Eric put on a show. The interview is going on 1-hour so if you don’t have time to listen to the whole thing download it for later. There were a few cut offs during the interview and some technical issues at the end. It’s kind of funny actually hearing them try to figure out how to end the interview. Feel free to skip the last few minutes.

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My Meet Summary - APF Southern States

My Meet Summary - APF Southern States - DEC 6th 2008

Dropped 10 pounds to make weight at 242. Thanks for the cutting advice from Talmant, Carroll and Schwanke.

Went three for three on the squat. 578, 622, 640. PR

Bench hit my opener 578. Hit 2nd 622 for a PR. Went for the gold on the third and missed 655. Got out of grove and felt stuck on my chest.

Deadlift. Hit 550 opener. Got 2nd attempt 600 PR. Went for 645 to try for 1900 even, but it didn’t go.

PRed with an 1862 total in my 2nd full power meet.

Have to thank my handlers Tom Bodenbender and Sam Ho. Couldn’t have done it without you guys, thanks for making the trip. Want to thank the entire Tampa Barbell team for their help during my training cycle. Ofcourse I have to thank Tommy Fannon specifically for allowing me to be a part of the team and providing a great place to train.

My wife for all her support and putting up with my hobby. APT for the best wraps and belts around.

It was fun seeing the guys from Team Samson (thanks for the warm up help) and the guys from OBB. Seeing national level lifters put up big numbers motivates me to step up my game so that was cool too.

Also congrats to Greg Jurkowski for a PR total of 2143 I believe and the biggest deadlift of the meet with a 777 pull. Eddie Fitzpatrick set another world record bench for his age group….good job. Tim James had a nice day too even with a pretty bad head cold hitting a 500+ bench. Critical Bench sponsored lifter Brian Carroll had an awesome day…with the biggest total of the meet including a squat over a grand. Congrats to Brian.

I came out of the meet without bombing out, Got PRs on every lift and didn’t get hurt so I can’t complain. Elite will have to wait till next time. And yes elite is my goal, it just wasn’t time yet, but I left it all out there trying.

Good times!