Category-125 kg
Open RawChampion
The coach behind the lifts.
Douglas Lutz is a competitive powerlifter, strength coach and sports physical rehabilitation professional based in Costa Rica.
Two things shape how Douglas coaches: he competes himself, and he works with bodies that have to keep training the week after.
He competes in the -125 kg Open Raw category, where he is a champion of the class and holds an 845 kg total from the Power Cartel Meet under WRPF. He represented WRPF Costa Rica at the Iberoamericano 2025 and took second place at the Meet of the Americas in Mexico City, 2026. Inside the country he is a multiple-time CRPL category winner and serves as Vice President of the federation.
Alongside competing, he works as a sports physical rehabilitation professional. That side of the work shows up in the programming: load is planned, technique is held to standard, and training is built to be repeatable rather than impressive for one session.
Around 22 athletes currently train under his programming — people starting from zero, lifters who want to move better, and competitors preparing for the platform. Each of them gets an individualized plan, weekly programming and a direct line to the coach who wrote it.
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Competition total845 kgPower Cartel Meet · WRPF
Iberoamericano 2025WRPF
Costa RicaRepresented Costa Rica
Costa RicaRepresented Costa Rica
Meet of the Americas2nd
PlaceMexico City, 2026
PlaceMexico City, 2026
CRPLVice
PresidentMultiple-time category winner
PresidentMultiple-time category winner
“Everything I ask an athlete to do, I have done under a loaded bar first.”
The platform is where a program is judged. Everything before it — the block structure, the technique work, the weekly adjustments — exists to make that day repeatable.
How the method worksBeginners and competitors,
same standard.
Douglas works with people who have never touched a barbell and with lifters preparing for a national platform. The training is different; the care behind it is not. Weight loss, hypertrophy, strength, stability, technique and general physical performance are all programmed with the same structure — assess, program, train, adjust.
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