SNR #238: Andi & Alex Pürzel – Behind Intelligent Strength

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 17 July 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Andi and Alex are the guys behind Intelligent Strength, a company that produces education on strength training and body composition through seminars and books. The brothers also have a gym in Vienna, Austria; Das Gym.

Das Gym is a truly unique place. And when you talk to Alex & Andi you immediately understand why. The gym opened in 2016 and it’s hard to imagine there being another place like it on the planet.

Andi has a long career as a coach and educator. As an athlete he first competed in strongman and powerlifting, and in more recent years has competed in bodybuilding.

Alex, in addition to his work with Intelligent Strength, also works as a physical education teacher at a school in Vienna. As an athlete, he has competed in powerlifting for a long-time. This has included competing at several IPF world championships and winning Gold in the deadlift at the European championships.

In This Episode We Discuss
Alex and Andi’s childhood influences
What got them into lifting weights
Experiences as coaches and athletes
Lessons training can teach you about life
What the goals of Intelligent Strength are

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0:00.0	You have to be yourself and you have to follow your ideals and what you think that's correct.
0:16.0	I don't mean that as I told in an egocentric way, I just mean that you can only influence
0:24.5	people in a positive way when you do your own thing, what you think is the right thing.
0:31.9	For me, training is the best teacher for life.
0:35.2	To do something just to learn okay how progress is made the
0:41.7	main reason why people start with training isn't the body it's the mind Hello and welcome to Sigmatic Nutrition Radio.
1:04.4	I am your host, Danny Lennon, and we are at episode 238 of the podcast today.
1:11.8	And on today's show, I'm going to be talking with Andreas and Alex Plerzo,
1:15.9	who are the brothers behind intelligent strength,
1:19.8	a company that produces education on strength training and body composition
1:24.7	through a ton of seminars.
1:28.0	They produce a strength training course for coaches,
1:32.9	a number of physical books on the topic.
1:35.5	And they've been doing that for a long period of time
1:37.9	and built quite an extremely large reputation,
1:42.4	particularly in German-speaking countries where they are kind of the
1:46.1	go-to guys for a lot of this information. They also have a physical gym here in Vienna, Austria,
1:52.7	where I've been able to train and stay and basically work out of their office to over the last
1:59.8	couple of months since I've been in Vienna.
2:02.9	And it's an amazing place.
2:04.9	Not only what you can kind of see online of just how amazing the facility is in itself
2:11.8	and all the little details they have, the equipment, everything about that is amazing, but also
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