#420 Why D1 Strength Programs Are Actually Ruining Elite Athletes | Jared Bidne

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Dave Tate

Fitness, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

Most college strength programs are actively making their athletes slower and weaker. I had another kid go to a D1 school with a 425-pound bench and come back only able to press 345. Elite strength coach and Westside Barbell disciple Jared Bidne is destroying the traditional, over-complicated sports performance model by proving that elite speed is built through brutal simplicity and high muscular tension.

INSIDE THE EPISODE:

The Death of Transfer: Why a 600-pound squat means absolutely nothing if your athlete cannot jump over a doormat.
The 0.6 m/s Rule: How tracking precise bar speed on low box squats serves as the ultimate predictor for a 4.4-second 40-yard dash.
The Track-Sprinting Trap: Why sending your football players to run track in the off-season is actually destroying their starting power.
The Dumbbell Jump Protocol: Inside the auto-regulated, heavy-light vertical jump method that has produced forty-six 40-plus inch verticals.

MEET THE GUEST:

Jared Bidne is the owner and head coach of Explosive Mechanics, a private, athlete-only training facility he has operated for over 17 years. A Distinguished CSCS and Westside Barbell certified coach who learned directly under Louie Simmons, Bidne has developed a reputation for rescuing elite athletes from the detraining effects of collegiate programs. By stripping away traditional fads and focusing strictly on muscular tension and rate of force development, he has coached over 200 athletes to Division 1 scholarships, trained multiple IPF world record holders, and weaponized a proprietary dumbbell-jump system to systematically build world-class speed and power.

Connect with Jared:

Website: https://www.explosivemechanics.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/explosivemechanics

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ExplosiveMechanics

Podcast (Apple): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/explosive-strength-podcast-with-jared…

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0:00.0	I had another kid, went to a D1 school, left out of high school with a 425 inch, came back with a 3.45 inch.
0:06.0	I've never had a kid go to college and come back stronger or faster.
0:09.0	It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit.
0:22.1	Welcome to Table Talk.
0:24.6	All right, Jared.
0:25.5	You've been training and coaching since you were like six, right?
0:29.1	So we're going to go over your origin story.
0:31.4	But before that, I got a pull quote from you that I think would be a good jumping off point.
0:36.4	And that is, what good is squatting
0:38.1	in the house if you cannot jump over a doormat so you want to expand on that one real
0:42.7	quick then I'll get into your background yeah the when I had said that I was just
0:48.0	meaning that you get a lot of these athletes because I deal with mainly athletes and
0:51.6	everything I talk about today will be athletic performance speed and the short term instead of this track stuff.
0:58.8	So you'll get some people that are really strong.
1:00.7	Like I'll get kids at the gym that will try to ego lift.
1:03.2	I'm not impressed by how much you lift.
1:05.1	I'm just impressed as that lift, it's transferring to what we need to transfer to.
1:09.2	And so you'll get some kids that are really strong,
1:11.5	but yet they can't move or, like I said, jump over a doormat because they don't have the rate of
1:16.3	force development. They got the absolute side of it, but they got this one side of the strength
1:19.6	curve and they don't have the other side. So how are you first introduced? I mean, it says I have here
1:24.3	in the sixth grade. So that's when I started working out.
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