I find that beginners over-train, but they don't train hard enough. They're the guys who train six days a week, one E-30 sets a body part. They never get any results because they don't train hard. The other thing that drives me nuts is I'll see people teach the lifts horribly. And then they'll say, well, we're not power lifters. And it's like, well, I'm not a chef, but I don't put tinfoil in the microwave. So if you're going to teach it, teach it correctly.

It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit.

Welcome to Table Talk.

All right, guys, we're back with another episode of Table Talk.

Today, my guest is Matt Weidamer. He was out before with Stan Effering. I forget the episode. I want to say 96, but I could be completely wrong on that. I should have looked it up. I didn't. Matt is the founder of Beat Fitness, co-owner of Parillo Performance, has over two decades as a strength coach slash personal trainer, two decades competing as a power lifting with three elite totals.

He was part of the morning crew when I was at West Side, so there should be some good stories

to be able to come from this.

And he's worked with everybody from Gen Pop to D1 athletes to top professional athletes,

MMA fighter, so we kind of got a whole lot of ground to cover.

For those people that don't know you, let's just go back to, I don't want to go back

to like when you're in high school.

Well, actually, we kind of do because that's when you, when did you start coming into West Side? Because it was around 2001. Was that high school or was that in, because it was high school and college, right? Yeah. So my, remember that Joe Collins? Yes. My high school strength coach. And he got me into Olympic lifting. And I competed and I got to junior nationals as an Olympic lifter. Did you not tell us that?

No, I don't know.

I never even think about it, honestly. And what's funny is... We would have rioted on that like you can't believe. Oh, I'm sure you can't. But the first time he said, there's this guy in Columbus with all these 800-pound squatters and 800-pound deadlifters, which still at that point really didn't register how good that was.

But the first time I came up, it was you, Chuck, Kenny, Joe McCoy, maybe someone else I can't remember, you're having a pinpole contest. It really wasn't there. And Kenny's like, what the hell are you guys doing here? And now I'm like skinny,

18 years old. No cell phones. I mean, think I think about back in those days is we could have been in the back alley. No one would have ever known. Yeah. I mean, we were kind of like right in the projects. Yeah. In the blacked out windows. Yeah. And so Joe and I are against the back wall and Joe just goes if they don't want to let us out of here

we probably

probably stuck

yeah and then Louis And so Joe and I are against the back wall and Joe just goes, if they don't want to let us out of here, we probably stuck.

Yeah.

And then Louis didn't remember us coming.

So like, anyway, long story short, then I came up the next time with Joe.

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