2,700+ Total, 12 Days No Sleep | Legendary Powerlifter Chad Aichs

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🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 132 minutes

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0:00.0	That meat, I was awake for 12 days before that competition.
0:04.5	Like, it was literally normal for me to be awake for two or three days.
0:07.4	Completely and utterly exhausted.
0:08.7	And I would lay down and I'd be like, ah, nothing would be on my mind.
0:13.5	Totally calm, totally relaxed, feel great.
0:16.0	Just won't sleep.
0:17.0	You don't get strong in the gym.
0:18.5	You stimulate growth in the gym.
0:20.0	You get strong when you recover and you recover outside the gym.
0:23.9	I'm sitting in a chair with a loaded gun to my head, trying to think of a reason why I shouldn't do it.
0:28.7	And there's at least a little part of my brain that said, Chad, this is not real.
0:32.5	For certain people and for aggressive people, the stimulation of growth is easy.
0:40.1	We're trying to figure out the origin of when we met.
0:43.0	We have Chadikes on the podcast here today, and Chad has squatted over 1,200 pounds in
0:49.0	competition, benched over 8, and probably pulled around 800 pounds.
0:53.1	Yeah, I never officially pulled 8 in a competition. Your training partner did, though, and he rubbed it in, let you know about it a lot, right? Yeah, Scott pulled eight and could have pulled more. Yeah, he was, I remember he was a freak. He was a truly freak. We were talking about had Dave Tate come out for a seminar, and that was actually when I was working at Pioneer High
1:12.5	School. I was a strength coach. I forgot about that. I remember that. I remember. And I had Dave come
1:17.3	out and I was working at a gym and I had the beginnings of super training gym in the back of
1:23.8	another gym called Body Construction Zone. And then it was a few years later where I had Louis Simmons come out and do a seminar. And we were talking about how rare it was for Louis to travel. Louis didn't even travel to Joe Rogan show. Joe Rogan went. It's like one of a few of Joe Rogan shows where Joe Rogan's at a different location. It might be the only one. Yeah, which is pretty crazy. I mean, if Joe Rogan wants me, I will fly the... Yeah, I would go wherever. Joe Rogan can like change your whole everything. Louis was different though. Like I, like, when I went to pick up Louis Simmons from the airport, he, he's like, waiting by baggage and he's like, his, with his back to the door, he's like, he's facing like towards the baggage. Like I don't think he under, like, I don't think he understands like the airport.
2:04.2	Like I'm coming there. with his back to the door, he's like, he's facing, like, towards the baggage. Like, I don't think
2:01.2	he, like, I don't think he understands, like, the airport. Like, I'm coming there to, like, if I'm, if I, if I, if you said, hey, can you pick me up at the airport? Yeah. I would be assuming like, oh, and Seema's coming in from Florida or something like that. And he's landing in Sacramento, he'll probably be out front.
2:15.2	Yeah.
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