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Yeah, I finally nailed that a strength coach from Cincinnati. We're going to talk to him in depth about Westside barbell and a lot of awesome stuff that he's done with a lot of athletes over the years. And then we got this mutant powerlifter here Steve Bay. And we also have stand the right way free.

We're just trying to have some fun over here. I don't know. Well, just playing on the fact of how big this guy is. It's insane. Why is he so? Why are you so big? What happened? Well, I think. Oh, he might have. Yeah.

Yeah, he's a lot of food. Lift heavy. I've done it for almost 20 years now. How much did he weigh when you guys met? You said you're about two 15, right? Yeah, yeah, two 15 to 20. Yeah, pushing a

trailer out my parking lot. Jesus. How many years ago was this? I want 15. Oh, 15 years ago. Yeah. And now we're talking about like 370 pounds. Yeah, 370. Yeah, something like that. Yeah, 390. What do you compete to what is the deal with you guys? Because you have there's a lot of unconventional training going on from the whole group. What the fuck is going on? Because like most of the time when you see the big powerlifter like this. Yeah, they kind of stick to bench squat deadlift. Yeah.

You have your lifts. And then I believe is it John? Am I getting that right? My Jimmy Jimmy. I'm sorry. Jimmy was in the gym. And he was talking about how he'd like runs in a treadmill for five minutes and in between these squats, 315 for reps. Yeah, big man. You do some stuff like that here and there too, right? And then you you were in there doing some crazy dead lifts and stuff like that. What's the deal with the way that you guys train? Well, I think we always say we're agnostic, right? So I love it. One thing. One thing early. I still mark. I start out like a Olympic

lifting. And I remember my first coach, no matter what he would do. It's like, Hey, coach, this kid over here, bench of 315, you know, back in high school, he'd like, well, can he clean it? You know, like, so Olympic lifting was like everything I bought in and then it was about 19. I went to Westside, Barbell. And then everything became good mornings and rack pulls and box squats. And you should never free squat. Never work your legs. Why would you ever work your legs? It's all, you know, hips and back, hips and back and hamstring, posterior chain. And then over the years, I've been really fortunate. And I always seek out like I'll never

I spent like six days with Tommy Donnie Thompson or I'll go out and visit the Little Bridges or Ed Cohen or whoever. Whoever's good, I'd learn. And you learn over time that there's not one way. And the other thing you learn is

there's everything works, but nothing works forever. So how you start out, you know, we talk about this like beginners. You can start out with like, you know, I was like looking at Owen. I bet Owen could go

five by five on Monday on squats. And on Wednesday, go up 10 pounds into the same workout and Friday. If we ask Steve, hey, it was

they for Friday. So if we said, hey, Monday, go ahead and squat 950. You know, there's no way. And then Wednesday will go 975. It'll be easy. Right. So over time, you just learn a lot.

You try to pick out what's going to work. And I think you're always just trying to build whatever you you're not doing good at.

You know, or whatever you're weak at. So that's kind of, and I think Ohio's got a lot of crazy guys. And we talked about like Louis Simmons, John Prillo.

There's a lot of cooks in Ohio. I guess we don't have enough to do. Yeah, John Prillo. I haven't heard that name in forever when I was looking up some stuff on Steve. I started to see

some things from John Prillo and John Prillo made MCT oil popular. He brought that to the masses. And then he had a supplement company. And I

guess he has his own gym at this point. Yeah, he has a gym. He doesn't really. He trains some of you. He trains you. Yeah, he trains me and Jimmy. That's about it. Yeah. And then what, what kind of training methodology is he following?

100 reps sets, four strips, everything slow. Probably something you can barely do three times. I'll expect you to do 20.

Right. He's all about building that gogi tendon. He's big on the gold he tendons. What is that about?

So basically, your gogi tendon is what? It's an inhibitor, right? It's to protect you. See, when you hear the story about the woman, the woman picked up the car to a saver baby.

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