Getting StrongAF, Neuromuscular Efficiency and Jacob Heppner ft. Nick Fowler - Ep.106
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Nick Fowler, Director of Strength & Conditioning, covers the fundamental basics of building strength (@thenickfowler). With the 2017 Games only a few days away, we'll be focusing on all the things you need to know to help you plan for next year. Whether you're a Games athlete just trying to make it to Regionals, or if The Open is your entire season, we go over the fundamentals of building strength. This episode is all about making sure you are doing the right things to build out your program, what your body actually needs, and how Nick has structured Jacob Heppner's last 8 weeks. Enjoy the show!
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Topics of discussion:
[0:44] Preparing for the 2017 CrossFit Games
[3:20] First conversation with Jacob Heppner
[5:21] Writing a strength program 101
[12:39] Looking at energy systems
[14:55] Neuromuscular Efficiency (NME) testing
[20:54] Creating different types of strength
[25:04] Resources for strength training
[29:34] What needs to be present in all programming
[34:50] Cannibalizing programs
[38:01] Training the characteristics
[41:48] What to keep in mind when training
[48:41] How Jacob Heppner has PR'ed all month
[54:29] The benefit of a longer off-season
[58:05] Working your weaknesses year round
[1:02:21] Looking back at last year's CrossFit Games
[1:03:42] How you can keep strength building simple
Links:
Practical Programming for Strength Training
The Obstacle is the Way – Ryan Holiday
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Mike Has you and you're listening to the Brute Strength Podcast. |
| 0:03.3 | This week I'm back with the owner of Massive Athletics and Brute Director of Strength |
| 0:07.9 | and Conditioning, Nick Fowler. |
| 0:10.0 | This show, we talk all about building strength. |
| 0:12.5 | We go over the foundation of building a strength program, lots of different concepts like |
| 0:17.9 | neuromuscular efficiency, and how Jacob Hepner has hit huge PRs and all of his lifts in the past eight weeks. Tons of great conceptual knowledge as well as practical. Hope you enjoy the show. Hey, this is Mike Cashew and this is the Brute Strength podcast. Nick, I'm excited to be back here with you, brother. Yeah, I'm excited, just like old times. Hell yeah, man. |
| 0:37.8 | So we're gearing up for the games. |
| 0:39.9 | Tell us a little bit about how it's going, preparing your athletes for the games. |
| 0:44.5 | Yeah, I think it's going well. |
| 0:46.2 | It's always a time of year where, you know, stress, anxiety, the unknown, right, starts to creep in. |
| 0:54.0 | You know, I think regionals in this year's competition is just so competitive that it's |
| 1:00.1 | starting to change the face of what an athlete, a game's athlete kind of looks like. |
| 1:05.9 | So I think that's starting to... |
| 1:07.2 | What do you mean by that? |
| 1:09.8 | I think right now the level of fitness, if you will, for lack of a better term, is so high that you can't get away with not showing up every day and laying it on the line in training, in competition. |
| 1:29.3 | I mean, you look at regionals and, I mean, so many people, so many qualifications were decided on day three. |
| 1:37.3 | And in some cases, by seconds, right, by places, you had George Sinch has, which is probably the biggest example from 736 or 35 points out I could be wrong but and then making the fifth spot so if you're not showing up and training every day mentally physically psychologically prepared you're just behind the eight ball and I think that's the group of athletes that we're seeing right yeah people |
| 2:02.9 | have to be they actually have to be professionals yeah right they have to be eating correctly |
| 2:08.0 | preparing correctly recovering correctly doing all of the little things that a couple years ago |
| 2:14.6 | maybe three or four years ago weren't as important you can You can kind of just train three or four hours a day |
| 2:20.2 | and then make it in if you're talented enough. |
| 2:22.8 | But now every single person has to be an actual professional. |
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