Why do you think the SBD training has become as popularized as it is? The best female powerlifter in the world does it. Six or seven SPD sessions a week. For example, beautiful bench, beautiful squad, beautiful deadlift. Everything is technically pristine. We're pushing that much frequency and that much volume, the system's perfect. Someone else who tries to do that, they have suboptimal technique, they have deviations rep to rep.

That's where these issues start to come in.

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So you started training with West Side for Skinny Bastards because of Brian Cushing.

Yes.

So elaborate, because I was into the conversation before we had to stop to do this. Yeah, so I mean, like I was super undersized in high school, right? And I had made the

determination kind of at the end of my sophomore season. I was like, I want to go play in university.

Probably not going to play. And my dad had made me do manual labor that summer. So I think I came back

for my junior season at probably 165 pounds.

And I was like, and I had a really good junior season. But, you know, if you're six foot and

165 pounds, that does not a good linebacker make. Yeah, I was going to ask what position. Yeah. And so

I was like, all right, well, I got to get fucking big. And so I looked up like, how to get big for football?

That's the first thing that comes up.

So I ran west side barbed of skinny bastards.

I think in the, so I started doing that in the 11th grade.

By the time I went off to college, I was 230.

So I went from 165 to 230 in probably two years.

So how did that impact your performance on the field?

You know, it's a funny thing is, uh, had I known now, or had I had the information I have

now then, I think the primary mistake that I made was I was so focused on just being as strong and seemingly possible that I got stiff, which is why I actually ended up having to move the defensive line because I just didn't have the hips to cover anymore.

Yeah.

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