Hi friends, welcome back to Modern Wisdom. My guest today is powerlifter and all-round fascinating

human, Brian Carroll. You may remember Brian from the episode I did with Dr. Stu McGill

as the guy who split his sacrum front to back and obliterated two of his discs. This

slept him unable to walk or live without pain, and over the course of a number of years

he tried numerous different approaches to fix it, eventually settling on Dr. McGill himself

and now after a long time rehabilitating his back has come back to not only squat over

a thousand pounds again, but has his sights set on a twelve hundred pound squat at 275

pound bodyweight, which will be the first man on the planet to ever lift it. So all of

the heavy weights and stuff aside, today's conversation discusses the genesis of powerlifting,

Brian's advice for strengthlifters and other athletes out there, his thoughts on spine

health, raw versus equipped powerlifting, advice for injured athletes, advice for people

who are looking to begin powerlifting or their journey into strength sports and everything

else. Not only that, but you invited me out to Florida, so you may be seeing me getting

wholly bitched by Brian Carroll within the next twelve months or so. It was an absolute

pleasure having him on, gentle giant indeed. Thank you very much, Mr. Brian Carroll.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. I am joined by without a doubt the strongest man

that I have ever had on this podcast, Mr. Brian Carroll. Welcome to show. Thank you for

having me Chris, I appreciate it. I'm looking forward to having a chat with you. Yeah, me

too. Recently had mutual friend of ours, Dr. Stuart McGill on the show, and he was singing

your praises, and we also briefly discussed the work that you two did together. So I'm

excited to hear the other side of that story as we get through today. Yes, it's been a

very interesting journey the last six years that I've known Dr. McGill, and I met him

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