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Joe DeFranco's Industrial Strength Show

#198 Building Strong, Resilient Firefighters & Soldiers w/ Matt Wenning

Joe DeFranco's Industrial Strength Show

Joe DeFranco

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

This week Joe is joined by record-setting powerlifter, private strength coach and owner of Ludus Magnus gym - Matt Wenning. Topics of their conversation include: How Matt got his first opportunity working with members of our military; How Matt helped identify weaknesses in thousands of soldiers; The benefits of the "Wenning Warm-up"; Why Matt prefers a Conjugate system; How to keep your training intensity high without overtraining; The biggest difference between training policeman & firefighters vs members of the military; Implementing "traction-based" exercises (and why they're important); Matt's "Go To" exercises & equipment; Most common mistakes most lifters make...and much, Much MORE!
 
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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to episode number 198 of the Industrial Strength Show.

0:05.0

I have an amazing information packed show for you today.

0:12.0

You guys finally got your show on police fire and military training that has

0:18.8

definitely been one of the most requested topics for well over a year now, but I kept kind of putting it off.

0:32.1

I know I've answered some individual questions here and

0:36.2

there on the topic, but I kept putting off doing an entire show on this topic because I wanted to to wait and do the first full industrial strength show on police fire and military training with Matt Wenning because I had been

0:56.9

speaking with Matt for a couple of months now and definitely been following him

1:02.3

from afar for years now and I was well aware of the incredible job that he's been doing in that particular field.

1:12.8

So we had been going back and forth.

1:15.3

And then finally, we got our schedules coordinated.

1:19.3

And Matt was kind enough to drive all the way from Ohio to New Jersey just to do the

1:27.4

podcast in person which I really appreciate because the show is always better when the guest is here in person.

1:36.1

So I appreciate that more than he knows and I'm sure you guys will too after you hear today's episode so the weight is finally over if you are a

1:47.8

Firefighter or if you're in the military or if you're a police officer you are definitely going to want to

1:56.8

pay attention to today's show because the information is gold. Now if you're not associated with anything police, fire,

2:08.8

military related, let me say this.

2:19.0

Definitely do not, I repeat, do not skip this episode. Don't let the title of today's show fool you.

2:24.8

Yes, we speak a lot about specifically training

2:29.6

firefighters and soldiers, etc.

2:32.2

But Matt's approach to training said firefighters and soldiers

2:39.3

can be applied to anyone.

2:41.2

You know, whether you're a pro athlete, a

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