All right, friends, welcome back to the Strong Life podcast.

This is your host, Zach Evanish.

This is episode 424 and man, do I got a treat for you.

This episode was amazing.

My guest is Matt Weidmer.

I've known about Matt for a long time, but he's not too busy putting out content on social media.

So a lot of you probably don't know about him.

He was on Mark Bell's Power Project about a year ago, and he's been in the strength

and conditioning field for 25 years now, maybe more.

He was an NFL strength coach with Buddy Morris back in the day,

Cleveland Browns, a little bit over 20 years ago, opened up his own training studio, grew it to

multiple studios. I think up at one point he said eight or nine studios and franchised it,

sold a bunch of them, learned more about business, bought some of them back.

And now he's got two studios.

And he also does a lot of consulting, not just in the fitness industry for the strength and conditioning business or more fitness business. But he's also training guys like Henry Sehudo, UFC champion, Olympic champion, John Jones, Johnny Bones Jones,

UFC champion, works with Stan Efforting. So he's got a business partner there. And also, he just became co-owner of Perillo Performance.

And I get into it a little bit during the podcast, but I heard of John Perillo, his company

Perillo Performance in 1990 when I used to watch American Muscle magazine, which was a monthly

bodybuilding show on ESPN2.

I used to cut school once a month so I could record it on VHS.

And John Perilla was on there talking about high protein, high carb, high fat diets,

10,000 calories a day, all kinds of shock training methods,

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