Metal Militia Bench Press Vegas Seminar – Powerlifting

METAL MILITIA is a worldwide brotherhood of benchers and powerlifters who share a bond built on a similar way of thinking, training, technique and support for each other. Started over 17 years ago, METAL MILITIA technique and training methods quietly spread throughout the world through word of mouth and seminars.

The METAL MILITIA way spread because it was different.

In the 1990s, Bill Crawford bench press reached a max of 500 lbs. He went to see Louis Simmons. Nobody really knew how to use bench shirts when they arrived on the scene. When he started studying bench shirts, Bill Crawford took what he learned from Louis Simmons even further. He was told by his brother that cutting the back open would make the shirt work better. Bill became known as the best bench shirt specialist in the sport because he focused on how best to use the bench shirt. Bill and Sebastien Burns gave seminars on how to get the most out of a bench shirt and how to train in one. The seminars blew people’s minds because they were so different and people got an immediate release of 50 lbs in their personal record bench press. All of the top benchers in the world use these new ideas of how to technically use the shirt and train differently. Bill Crawford was the best bench press specialist in the world.

Most people in the world don’t know about the METAL MILITIA technique. New lifters and raw lifters with not much knowledge of the sport are unaware of the power of metal.

Bill Crawford kept it as an underground society. He disliked commercialisation and marketing. He preferred to keep it real and close. The people that trained with METAL MILITIA became very strong loyal brothers and sisters.

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METAL MILITIA MEETS

We will make that a bit more official with our own meets because we have always been a close, loyal, dedicated group of lifters.

We don’t want to grow a powerlifting federation or make money off of powerlifters. We are making our support for each other more known and accessible by creating a home for ourselves.

A style of meet that gives a nod to Powerlifting Tradition is provided by the METAL MILITIA meets. Lifting with integrity and pride is what we have always done. Consistency is provided in the atmosphere, equipment and rules. They will be our meetings. The lifters are metal.