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BEST LIFTER SHOWCASE

Mike Lancour

9/21/2021

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​Best Lifter spotlight from the USPC Iron Asylum Classic on September 18, 2021.
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Name, age & how long have you been Powerlifting?
Mike Lancour, 23, 2 years

Best lifts in competition?
502 squat, 390 bench, 573 deadlift

Athletic background?  What you did before powerlifting?
 Running long distances

Why Powerlifting?
Being strong is more fun than being weak 

Tell me something about your gym/team.
Flex gym is #1 in the quality of the gym as well as the people. TEAM FLEX is family, we all support each other and make each other  better  

Training alone or training partner/coach, team?
 Training with team flex is always the best

Biggest inspiration in the sport?
 Luis issasi, Zach Smith, Doug and Beckie Peyer, Jared Johnson

What's your favorite lift?
 Bicep curl and calf raises

Least favorite lift?
 Cardio

Biggest challenge in your training?
 The diet part 

Ideal training atmosphere?  Focused and dialed in or noisy and high energy?
 Noisy and high energy while slamming Miller lite

Training plan. Do your own programming or have a coach?
 Zach Smith owner of Flex Gym

Social media.  Positives and negatives
Positive: keep in contact with people who you don’t see often and learn new things 
Negative: people giving out false info and negative energy 


Diet you follow? Supplements?
 Beer, meat, pizza, rice, tacos, coffee, creatine

Biggest accomplishment in your powerlifting career? 
390lb bench press while weighing 162.8 lbs 

What's one of your non-powerlifting goals?
 Successfully put a beer keg made of home brew beer in my fridge on tap

Finally is there anyone you would like to acknowledge or give a shout out to (team, coach, spouse, sponsors)?
S/O to team flex, Coach Zack for the programming, and the amazing Julissa Armstrong for all the support and love
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Aislinn Arguello

9/21/2021

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​Best Lifter spotlight from the USPC Iron Asylum Classic on September 18, 2021.
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Name, age & how long have you been Powerlifting?
 Aislinn Arguello, 21, 3ish yrs 

Best lifts in competition?
Squat: 275 deadlift: 270 bench: 161 
 
Athletic background?  What you did before powerlifting?
Soccer and track 

Why Powerlifting?
 It’s a sport I could do by myself and work on myself and just got strong enough to start powerlifting  

Tell me something about your gym/team.
Everyone is very helpful, kind and strong. 
 
Trying alone or training partner/coach, team?
Team Flex coach: _aegiduchos_
 
What's your favorite lift?
 Bench 

Least favorite lift?
 Deadlift 

Biggest challenge in your training?
 Cutting 

Ideal training atmosphere?  Focused and dialed in or noisy and high energy?
 Wearing my headphones at full volume and not being able to hear anything else 

Training plan. Do your own programming or have a coach?
Zack/Zeus from flex 
 
Social media.  Positives and negatives
  Positive: it’s cool to watch other people’s lifts Negative: people judge and can be mean 

Diet you follow? Supplements?
 Don’t really have one  

Biggest accomplishment in your powerlifting career? 
 Doing my first real comp and getting a best lifter sword 

What's one of your non-powerlifting goals?
 Owning a gym 

Finally is there anyone you would like to acknowledge or give a shout out to (team, coach, spouse, sponsors)
Team Flex 
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Allison White

9/20/2021

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Javarryon Fort

9/9/2021

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​Best Lifter spotlight from the WPUSA Fearless Summer Showdown on August 28, 2021.  Top OVERALL Wilks 2.0...

Name, age & how long have you been Powerlifting?
Javarryon Fort age 20 , I've been powerlifting for 3 years 
 
Best lifts in competition?
633 deadlift 

Athletic background?  What you did before powerlifting?
 I ran cross country 

Why Powerlifting?
 I was working out fun. As time went i noticed I was stringer than most people my age , so I started taking powerlifting serious at 18, did my first two meets at 19 .

Tell me something about your gym/team.
 I train at two gyms , Accerated fitness where I'm from in Medina it's a great gym . But when I'm peaking for a meet I go to Old school iron because it's more serious and to use the kilo plates 

Trying alone or training partner/coach, team?
 I train Alone so u can stay in my zone . Love to be locked in . My coach is Cody Robinson.

Biggest inspiration in the sport?
Russ orhii  

What's your favorite lift?
Squat  

Least favorite lift?
Bench press  

Biggest challenge in your training?
 Learning sumo deadlift 

Ideal training atmosphere?  Focused and dialed in or noisy and high energy?
 I like noisy when I'm going for Pr's

Training plan. Do your own programming or have a coach?
I have a coach 
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Social media.  Positives and negatives
social media is how you get your name out there negatives would be , people always judging when it comes to lifters .
 
Diet you follow? Supplements?
 No diet just no candy , pops , chips but I live ice cream on my cheat day . I take fish oil .

Biggest accomplishment in your powerlifting career?
 Setting a deadlift record & total record for 18-19 and my 3 metals , the metals mean more to me .

What's one of your non-powerlifting goals?
 Find a career that I love 

Finally is there anyone you would like to acknowledge or give a shout out to (team, coach, spouse, sponsors)?
cody Robinson

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Micheale Morgan-Paynter

9/5/2021

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Best Lifter spotlight from the USPC WV/VA Border Wars Open on August 21, 2021.
Top OVERALL Wilks 2.0...

Name, age & how long have you been Powerlifting?
Micheale Morgan-Paynter
I've been powerlifting for 7 years 

Best lifts in competition?
 138kg squat

75kg bench

163kg deadlift


Athletic background?  What you did before powerlifting?
 I was always an athletic kid and I was into a lot of sports growing up. I also ran cross country and track in college at Marshall University. 

Why Powerlifting?
 It is a fun way to push myself athletically and to continue to have that competitive atmosphere. 

Tell me something about your gym/team.
 I've always been a part of Paynter Periodization and have trained at a few great gyms over the years but I now have a home gym.

Trying alone or training partner/coach, team?
 I train at home alone with my coach/husband Timothy Paynter. 

Something most people you train with (or those who follow you if you train alone) don't know about you?
 That I was a long distance runner for several years before I started powerlifting and continued to do distance running the first few years that's I was powerlifting. 

Biggest inspiration in the sport?
 Timothy Paynter for always persevering in powerlifting 

What's your favorite lift?
 My favorite lift has changed over the years but right now I would say it's squats. 

Least favorite lift?
 After having some issues with SI joint dysfunction my least favorite lift is deadlifts right now 

Biggest challenge in your training?
 I work a desk job and with travel I am sitting close to 11 hours a day which makes staying loose and keeping everything working like it should requires a lot of extra time. 

Ideal training atmosphere?  Focused and dialed in or noisy and high energy?
 My ideal atmosphere is having all the dogs around for petting between sets. 

Training plan. Do your own programming or have a coach?
 I have always trained under Paynter Periodization who does my off season and prep training plans 

Social media.  Positives and negatives
 I think social media is great for keeping in contact and entertainment. But I think it can create a lot of pressure and there is a lot of misinformation shared on it. 

Diet you follow? Supplements?
 I meal prep most of my meals during the work week for convince but I don't follow any kind of specific diet. And I don't regularly take any supplements. 

Biggest accomplishment in your powerlifting career?
 Finally breaking the barrier into a 300lb squat earlier this year. 

What's one of your non-powerlifting goals?
 I am hoping to have my professional engineering license within the next year. 

Finally is there anyone you would like to acknowledge or give a shout out to (team, coach, spouse, sponsors)?
 Shout out to my trainer partners Jeffy, Chloe, and Moon 

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