Competition coaching at Jax Liberty Fitness is not a separate program from regular coaching. It is regular coaching — individualized programming, TrueCoach delivery, video feedback, ongoing adjustments — with a meet date on the calendar and a competition-specific preparation phase built in.

Rick handles the full process:

Programming — a periodized training cycle built around your meet date, your current strength levels, and your specific events. The program adjusts every cycle based on how you're actually performing.

Technique — competition powerlifting has technical rules that matter. Rick coaches your squat depth, your bench pause, your deadlift lockout to competition standard so nothing gets red-lighted on the platform.

Meet preparation — attempt selection, warm-up timing, opener strategy, how to handle nerves on the platform. Rick has been a handler at competitive meets and knows what the day actually looks like from the inside.

Handling — Rick attends meets with his competitive clients as their handler. He loads the bar, calls your attempts, manages your warm-ups, and is the person in your corner when it counts.

Most people who end up competing didn't start training with that goal. They started because they wanted to get stronger, move better, or just feel more capable in their daily life. Somewhere along the way the numbers got serious — the squat started feeling natural, the deadlift got heavy, and the idea of testing those numbers on a platform started to make sense.

If that sounds like where you are — or where you want to be — competition coaching is worth a conversation.

You don't need to have competed before. You don't need to be a certain age, a certain weight, or a certain strength level. Liz didn't walk into this gym with a competition goal. She walked in wanting to get stronger. The records came later — because the foundation was built correctly from the beginning.

What you need is consistency and a willingness to follow a program that takes the long view. Powerlifting rewards patience more than almost any other sport. The lifters who compete successfully year after year are not the ones who trained the hardest in a short window. They are the ones who trained correctly over a long one.

Rick has coached clients through their first meet and their fifteenth. The preparation looks different at each stage — but the coaching standard doesn't. Every session is watched, every program is individualized, and every meet day Rick is in your corner.