Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness.

We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset.

Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach,

2012 and 2013 Prospect Games Champ, Michael Kaju.

Mind, Body, Brute. body brute.

What's up? Welcome back.

My name is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast.

This week I've got one of the best strength and

conditioning coaches of all time, Eric Kressy on the show. Eric is one of the few

people that I really idolized as a young coach anything that he had written or put out on video I just devoured

Eric is a really unique coach in that he's both an elite level powerlifter on as you know personally and he's also someone that really

understands corrective exercise more than any other strength coach that I know.

Usually I think of strength coaches falling into one of two camps.

One, there's like all of the old school guys that they just want to, they almost treat their athletes like bodybuilders or weightlifters.

And then there are the guys that really gear towards corrective exercises and things like that, which are super valuable, but when that's the sole focus of a strength and conditioning program, they tend to baby their athletes and they just really don't push their athletes.

Eric, in my mind, has always been someone that brings together both of those worlds,

where he's drawing from a ton of different disciplines,

and he's always just looking for what

is the absolute best that he can give his athletes.

He's on the very cutting edge of corrective exercises, but's not he's not using only corrective exercises

he's using a variety of different movements and disciplines to get the best out of his

athletes so we start the show off actually

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