1180: Joe DeFranco on What Makes a Good Trainer, the Importance of a Structured Warm-Up, the Role of Genetics and MORE
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sal, Adam and Justin talk with good friend Joe DeFranco.
- Why Joe refers to bad trainers as “slap dicks” and how he takes criticism. (3:08)
- The differences between his certification and all others. (5:00)
- The origins of building a certification course and how he was introduced to James Smith. (10:09)
- What are the real reasons why someone should focus on having a structured warm-up? (13:50)
- The breakdown between application and academia. (17:35)
- How do I know if a trainer is good or not? (19:22)
- Should we be training squats and deadlifts? (23:43)
- Why do we give a shit about how people eat? (26:35)
- Always listen to your body FIRST! (29:10)
- What is the value of speed and power training for the average person? What does a workout look like? (35:50)
- The risk vs reward of his athletes incorporating Olympic lifts into their training. (44:50)
- If you don’t use it you lose it. (47:30)
- The hidden benefits of the post-activation potentiation training method. (50:10)
- How do you break in and train your own clients? (56:00)
- Behind the curtain of the ‘freak of nature’ that is Brian Cushing. (56:51)
- How much of a role do genetics play? (58:30)
- Is Joe a big sports guy? (1:02:34)
- What is his favorite part about what he does today? (1:05:09)
Featured Guest/People Mentioned
- Joe DeFranco (@defrancosgym) Instagram
- Official Website
- YouTube
- Joe DeFranco's Industrial Strength Show
- James Smith (@smittydiesel) Instagram
- Cory Schlesinger (@schlesstrength) Instagram
- Brian Cushing (@briancushing56) Twitter
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- Mind Pump 1035: Joe DeFranco
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- The Game Changers - Joe DeFranco
- Mind Pump 907: Cory Schlesinger
- “Behind the Scenes” – Lower Body Strength/Power Workout
- Joe Defranco’s Top 5 Ways To Develop Explosive Power
- Post-Activation Potentiation
- Post-Activation Potentiation: Theory and Application
- DeFrancosGym.com: Brian Cushing 64 inch Hurdle Jump!!!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | Mind up, mind up with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | In this episode of Mind Pump, we interview one of our favorite people in this fitness space. |
| 0:20.0 | In fact, we've learned from the sky when we were trainers, you know, 10, 15 years ago, |
| 0:25.0 | Joe DeFranco. He's a world-renowned strength and conditioning coach. |
| 0:29.0 | He's also the owner of DeFranco's gym. Now, for the past two decades, athletes from across the world |
| 0:34.0 | have hired Joe because of his remarkable ability to improve strength, power, speed, mobility, agility, and sports-specific endurance. |
| 0:43.0 | This guy is the trainer of trainers. He's one of the best. |
| 0:47.0 | He's one of the best. |
| 0:48.0 | Now, his trained techniques have been featured all over the place. |
| 0:51.0 | ESPN, Spike TV, the NFL Network, WWE Network, Men's Health Magazine, Men's Fitness Magazine, |
| 0:58.0 | and more. He actually was featured in a New York Times bestselling book, The Four Hour Body. |
| 1:03.0 | His resume of clients is massive, but it includes NFL players from all 32 teams, which is crazy. |
| 1:09.0 | MLB and NBA players, WWE superstars, UFC fighters, Olympic athletes, and high school, and college, all Americans. |
| 1:18.0 | They're best of the best. |
| 1:19.0 | He's also a super cool guy. We love talking to this guy. He's a, he's very humble, even though the guy, his knowledge is just... |
| 1:27.0 | Bar none, some of the best in this industry. One of the things we like most about him is his ability to communicate what he knows. |
| 1:34.0 | He's a very authentic, real person. This is our second interview with the guy. |
| 1:39.0 | We love the first one so much. We invited them to come down, hold a certification here. |
| 1:43.0 | He does have a certification that he takes trainers through. We think it's one of the best ones. |
| 1:47.0 | And then we interviewed him again and had another phenomenal episode. |
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