What is Brute: Brute Weightlifting ft.Matt Bruce
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the What Is Brute series, I'll be speaking with my partner in crime, Matt Bruce. Matt is a 7x World Team Athlete for USA Olympic Weightlifting. In this episode we begin by talk about how Brute Strength came about and what it was like working with our very first Brute athletes before getting into some of the more technical aspects of weightlifting such as developing rituals during training, sets, reps, and percentage work for different athletes, and finally the some of the most memorable moments of Brute Strength so far. Enjoy the show.
Topics:
02:40 - The importance of developing rituals
04:35 - Sets, Reps, & Percentage work for Olympic lifters & Powerlifters
07:25 - Programming for CrossFit athletes
10:10 - Matt's contribution to the annual Brute program
12:10 - Memorable moments
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.4 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, 2012 and 2013 CrossFit Games Channel, Michael Cajou. |
| 0:19.6 | Mind, Body, brute. |
| 0:25.6 | Hey and welcome back. |
| 0:27.1 | My name is Mike Cashew and you're listening to the Brute Strength Podcast. |
| 0:30.5 | This is episode three of six in the What is Brute Podcast series. |
| 0:36.0 | In episode one, I told you the basic concept behind why Brute started |
| 0:40.3 | in the first place. We wanted to create a team of experts surrounding all of our athletes and |
| 0:46.3 | clients rather than just one person acting as the expert in all of the different fields within |
| 0:53.6 | the sport of CrossFit. |
| 0:55.2 | In episode two, I talked to the director of strength and conditioning for Brute, |
| 0:59.8 | Nick Fowler, and he told us about his general philosophy on training |
| 1:04.2 | and how he creates all of our training programs. |
| 1:07.7 | Today, I'm talking to the man that started at all, Matt Bruce. Matt is my business |
| 1:12.9 | partner and when I met him, he was ending his career as a weightlifter. He's a seven-time |
| 1:19.1 | world team member for the USA. And to this day, if you talk to people like Kendrick Ferris |
| 1:24.8 | or Chad Vaughn and ask them them who was the strongest lifter in America |
| 1:30.0 | while you were still competing without fail they would say Matt Bruce Matt had some of the |
| 1:35.5 | strongest legs in the world at the time and he was the only person in America that could take a snatch |
| 1:41.1 | from ground to locked out overhead in under a second. |
| 1:45.6 | He was incredibly fast, but what really drew me to Matt was the way that he coached |
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