Welcome back to another episode of the Strong Life podcast.

This is your host, Zach Evanesh.

Audio might be a little bit different.

I'm recording without a mic.

I'm inside the underground strength gym.

Couldn't really get work done in my house today.

So I said, you know what?

I got to step out, put the computer on the old reverse hyper,

and summon some inner west side barbell

emotion thunder and fire i want to thank everybody for the recent reviews on the

strong life podcast you guys are crushing it love to see those reviews and uh this episode is a

real cool episode i give a review slash overview of an old training

protocol that Dr. Ken Leisner writes about in a 1979 powerlifting USA magazine, and he's talking

about a bench press specialization program from 1969, I believe. And it was from one of

the guys that was a YMCA national champion, national powerlifting champion. And it's interesting,

like listening to the numbers, you know, the numbers today, they're certainly greater, but I think something about those

older days that makes it so special as there was not a lot of specialty equipment. The equipment

was not made in this kind of robust manner. I mean, we think about Pat Casey benching over 600 pounds

on a little puny bench that looks like it could

snap in half. It looks, you know, worse than one of the things you would buy from the old school

seers, just a little bench press with the narrow uprights. And it's amazing how strong people got.

And so some of these lessons and experiences, Dr. Ken shares, is also from Bill Peanuts West Garage, which was in Culver City, California.

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