Scientific Principles of Strength Training w/ Chad Wesley Smith - 285
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
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🗓️ 1 November 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Chad Wesley Smith is the owner/founder of Juggernaut Training Systems and one of the most accomplished strength athletes of recent years. With a background in track and field, Smith took his 2 collegiate national championships and continued his success in powerlifting and strongman.
1. Specificity — Training designed to achieve a particular outcome
2. Overload — Is training stimulating enough to drive neural adaptation? Training must become harder overtime through more volume and more weight.
3. Fatigue management — Your recovery process: Besides deload days and proper nutrition and sleep, should include adaptive recovery strategies like ice baths, massages, etc.
4. SRA (Stimulus Recovery Adaptation) — Your training process: Frequency and duration of training and recovery.
5. Variation — Avoid staleness by shifting phases. Keep in mind variation should always be in context with Specificity (principle #1).
6. Phase potentiation — Make the most of each training phase.
7. Individual differences — We're similar but not "the same"
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, I'll be in, I think eight or nine years old, trying out for, you know, getting ready |
| 0:05.8 | for Pop Warner or football the first time. |
| 0:08.1 | Mom said I was like, bungee cording myself to trees in the backyard to do like, resisted |
| 0:12.5 | sprints. |
| 0:13.5 | I'd probably watch Rocky IV training my tires too many times. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Barbell Shrugged. |
| 0:48.1 | I'm Mike Blitzer with Doug Larsen, Kenny Kane and we're up here in Orange County hanging |
| 0:52.8 | out with Chad Wesley Smith at his home hanging out in the backyard. |
| 0:57.8 | New spot for training. |
| 0:59.5 | New spot for everything. |
| 1:00.5 | Yeah, I just moved in last week. |
| 1:01.8 | So we're here. |
| 1:02.8 | We get to see everything just fresh. |
| 1:04.3 | Yeah, I was still trying to clean the place up when you guys drove up this one in, so. |
| 1:09.4 | Good job. |
| 1:10.4 | Yeah, the illusion of organization is present. |
| 1:13.8 | Yeah, we know all about it. |
| 1:16.2 | No, and if people don't know who you are by your name, I'm sure they recognize Juggernaut |
| 1:21.4 | training systems and you did write this book, Scientific Principles of Strength Training |
| 1:26.8 | and we're going to dig into that today. |
| 1:29.1 | I'm personally really interested in learning about what might differ between weightlifters |
| 1:33.9 | and powerlifters because we definitely hear coaches from both sports. |
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