It was every worst nightmare that a lifter could have.

It ended up being double staff infection in each side of my quads.

She's like, you have to take this now, and then if swelling doesn't go at least down a little bit in 12 hours, you've got to go to the ER.

The sport is always going to trump the strength conditioning.

The strength conditioning should aid in the sport development. It's time to sit down, keep it real and cut the bullshit.

Welcome to Table Talk.

Ben Polly, back on the podcast.

You've been on episodes 207 and 281. Number three, baby. Yep. So what we were going to talk

about today was training, you know, some of the programs that you have, the differences amongst clients

and so forth. But before we jump into that, I want to, I want to know how your last meet went.

Oh, God. I was hoping we're going to talk about this. I have to, right? So this? Well, the, we're going to, let's do this in two sections. The actual meat and then the training for the meat. Okay. Because there's a distinction, right? This was the biggest distinction I've ever had. Yes. And I think people need to understand that though. You know, you can have a crappy meat, but the training phase, the training cycle, was

really, really good.

Yep.

And vice versa.

You can have, usually at worst.

You can have crappy.

Yeah, the worst training cycle of your life, all we are.

And a good me, but sometimes people base their next training phase or the next

macro cycle even on how the meat went. Yep. And completely disregard how everything getting into the

meat could have been right words. Yeah, or have the greatest training cycle their life, do horrible

up to meet and then change everything up when they didn't need to.

Yes.

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