Hey this is Mike has you and you're listening to the brute strength podcast.

This week I'm back with the owner of Massive Athletics and Brute

Director of Strength and Conditioning, Nick Fowler.

This show we talk all about building strength.

We go over the foundation of building a strength program,

lots of different concepts like neuromuscular efficiency

and how Jacob Hepner has hit huge PRs in 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. podcast Nick I'm excited to be back here with you brother. Yeah, I'm excited just like old times.

Hell yeah man so we're gearing up for the games tell us a little bit about how it's going preparing your athletes for the games.

Yeah I think it's going well. It's always a time of year where you know stress anxiety,

the unknown right starts to creep in you know I think

regionals in this year's competition is just so competitive that it's starting to

change the face of what an athlete a games athlete kind of looks like.

So I think that's starting to...

What do you mean by that?

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. I mean you look at regionals and I mean so many people so many qualifications were decided on day

three and and in some cases by seconds right by places you had George Sanchez which is probably the biggest example from

7 36 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

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