Welcome to the Root 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 Cross-Tic Games Champ,

Michael Kaju.

Mind, Body, Brute. body brute.

Welcome back. This is Michael Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast.

This week I've got Julian Pano back on the show Julian is the founder and owner of a company called Strong Fit 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 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 of

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 3 strict press or that 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 and

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

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