Julien Pineau (Strongman Training, Muscle Imbalances and the Tactical Athlete) - Episode 5
Behind The Shield
James Geering
4.9 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2025
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Julien Pineau is a world renowned movement specialist and innovator. Julien specializes in getting athletes out of pain my identifying muscle imbalances and correcting them with functional movements.
Sports have been a part of Julien’s life since he was young and he’s been a state and national champion in a number of sports including soccer, swimming and wrestling. As an adult, he really found something he liked with MMA (he’s a brown belt) and Ju Jitsu (black belt equivalent in the no-gi category) and spent time traveling the world to learn from the best in the industry. That time spent with the best made him want to learn more about sport and movement so that he could coach others.
In 1993, he began his coaching career as a conditioning and grappling coach for the MMA gym where he trained and in 2008, he opened his own gym that focuses on strongman training (another sport at which he excelled) which allow him to train people with the movements and exercises he’s looking for. Julien’s brain is wired to see faulty patterns and visualize, in space, how people move. With his knack for diagnosing muscular & strength imbalances he has developed his own system to identify what issues are and fight root of the problem.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode five of Behind the Shield. My name is James Gearing. I will be your host. |
| 0:05.0 | And my guest this evening is Julian Pernow. Now Julian is self-described as a movement specialist. |
| 0:13.6 | He's originally from France, has been an athlete himself, his whole life. Started as an |
| 0:18.9 | MMA fighter and then moved on to strong man competition, |
| 0:23.1 | but then found a passion for fixing people, so became enthralled in movement, founded his own |
| 0:31.7 | company called StrongFit, and began fixing broken athletes. That was kind of how I came across his work. I had just |
| 0:41.6 | come off a back injury, had healed it using foundation training, but still felt that I had got |
| 0:47.6 | weaker, even though I'd been training more and more and more. Heard him on a podcast called |
| 0:52.5 | Barb L shrugged and it just kind of blew my mind from when you were |
| 0:57.4 | taught the traditional way of thinking and someone comes in with a completely different way, |
| 1:02.5 | it really did strike me as amazing. The big thing is the way he trains people is so pertinent for firefighters, police, EMS, |
| 1:14.9 | because he focuses on moving weight over distance like strong men do. |
| 1:20.2 | So he used a lot of sandbags, yokes, sleds, which totally replicates the tools that we use in our jobs, |
| 1:27.4 | whether it's firefighters with ladders and hoses or dragging people |
| 1:31.0 | or wrestling people to the ground. |
| 1:33.3 | We don't do our work standing still with both feet planted. |
| 1:36.7 | You know, we're in awkward positions, |
| 1:37.9 | and we have to carry a pretty substantial amount of weight |
| 1:41.8 | and use a substantial amount of force to do our jobs. |
| 1:45.5 | So you need something over and above the average level of training. |
| 1:51.0 | So in this interview, we first talk about how I got him to train with me. |
| 1:56.8 | It's quite a funny story. |
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