16 years ago I attended a seminar on weight training injuries and there was a guy presenting

there named Charles Staley and he was giving a talk and after that talk I went up and talked with him because I've been reading his articles.

I bought his book on Strength Training for Martial Arts and I got to shake his hand and he's

someone that I've learned from over the years and I've continued to learn from him and

that is who my guest is today and it's so

cool that a guy who I shook the hand of 16 years ago a guy who's had such a big impact on my life as a fitness professional and

getting better results for myself and for my clients that now I get to have him

here today and in case you're not a fitness professional

Charles is one of the most respected and well-known strength coaches in the entire fitness

industry probably in the world he literally has that big of a

reach and that much respect and he's lectured all over the world about strength

training and he has been writing for magazines like

T Nation and he now is teamed up with Tim Larkin if you've been listening to his

show for a while you know that Tim is a self-defense expert

or self-protection expert. I don't think Tim likes self-defense very much, and Charles

has teamed up with him to give top level strength training information and you can find that at target focus fitness.com.

So in my interview with Charles, besides hitting it off with him, which is really cool,

and we had a good connection, had a great talk, and besides that, and besides me getting to interview one of the people who's had such a tremendous impact in my life,

he's going to give you a ton of advice on how you can get better results in the weight room

because many of us are making mistakes actually I should say many of you because I've been reading Charles information for a long time so he's going to talk about

misconceptions of strength training and where most guys go wrong with

training the common mistakes and if you're someone who you've been working out

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