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Joe DeFranco's Industrial Strength Show

#389 Max Schmarzo On Training for Power, Programming Isometrics [and other interesting/random stuff!]

Joe DeFranco's Industrial Strength Show

Joe DeFranco

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 6 October 2022

ā±ļø 105 minutes

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Summary

This week Joe welcomes Max Schmarzo to the Industrial Strength Show. Max is a sports scientist, coach/educator,Ā founder ofĀ Strong by ScienceĀ and co-founder of EdgeU - a platform that helps others develop their craft as trainers, coaches, and therapists. On today's episode you'll hear Max & Joe have a thought-provoking conversation thatĀ entails a number of different topics. Highlights include: When should athletes train their weaknesses vs doubling down on their strengths; The 3 reasons to lift weights; The NEGATIVE aspects of training; Best practices when programming for Power; Traditional sets & reps vs "% drop-off of best effort"; How & Why to use "yielding" isometrics vs "overcoming" isometrics; Research/Science vs Anecdotal experience; Bayesian decision making (and what it has to do with "internet arguing")...and so much more! *For a full list of Show NotesĀ +Ā Timestamps gotoĀ www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to episode number 389 of the industrial strength show

0:05.5

Man, I have an awesome

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information

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packed

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Thought-provoking

0:14.0

Conversation for you guys this week with first-time guest max schmarzo if you don't know max man

0:25.4

You need to get to know him. He is a

0:28.4

Brilliant dude super super smart

0:31.8

You know master's degree in x-fizz from Iowa State. He worked in both the college setting and private sector

0:41.7

both as a trainer a coach working with athletes and also as a consultant

0:48.7

Now he has a very unique very very cool business where

0:54.6

He trains his clients from his home. He predominantly works with pro basketball players and

1:02.0

You know does everything for them from preparing a breakfast in the morning to training

1:08.7

multiple times per day just really gives them you know five-star service full

1:17.5

Spectrum coaching mentorship, et cetera

1:22.4

And he also has a

1:24.4

An online membership community as well where he provides his members with weekly programming

1:31.9

Educational videos he answers their questions, et cetera, et cetera, but like I said brilliant dude on

1:40.2

noses of stuff inside and out we we had an awesome conversation covered a number of different topics

1:47.2

Some highlights ranged from we spoke about

1:51.8

Training to improve your weaknesses, you know, bring up your your weak links versus

1:58.0

Doubling down on your strength. He talked about why what are the three main reasons he has his athletes lift weights

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