Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness.

We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset.

Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, 2012 and 2013 CrossFit Games Channel, Michael Cajou.

Mind, Body, Br. Welcome back. This is Michael Cashew,

and you're listening to the Brute Strength podcast. This week, I've got Julian Pinot back on the show.

Julian is the founder and owner of a company called StrongFit, which helps people understand

fundamental patterns of movement along with other things.

Julian is one of the most intellectual strength and conditioning coaches that I've ever met,

and this was a fascinating episode.

I'm going to read a quote that really sums up a lot of Julian's philosophy.

And it's by Harrington Emerson, and it goes, as to methods, there may be a million and then some.

But principles are few. The man who grasp principles can successfully select his own methods.

The man who tries methods ignoring principles is sure to have trouble. And the reason I read that is because whenever I talk to Julian and

if you look anywhere online at anything that he's created, he's always trying to get at the

underlying principles, strength and

conditioning or learning or whatever it may be, rather than just the methods, rather than just

telling you, I want you to go do 10 by three strict press, or that's a completely arbitrary

example, or anything like that.

He wants to teach you underlying principles that you can then apply yourself.

So on this episode, we first start out by talking about how he's learning to stay in flow under pressure.

We spend the majority of the episode talking about the strong fit equation, including Q learning.

We talk about AI and reinforcement learning and this fascinating story about one of the Google

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