I just finished an hour and forty-minute interview on the SOTT Radio Health & Wellness Show. We covered a lot of topics, including:
- Why proper exercise is a requirement for living the longest, happiest life possible
- Why you have a responsibility to yourself and others to be as fit as possible
- What exercise is and what it is not, and why understanding the difference is crucial
- Why high intensity training is a set of principles and not a specific program
- Why it is almost always a mistake to copy the programs of elite athletes and bodybuilders
- Starting points for beginners and how to apply HIT principles when individualizing a program
- Warming up before and stretching after workouts
- Repetition cadence/repetition speed
- Proper mindset during exercise and working through the burn
- General guidelines for exercise performance
- Load versus resistance and the effectiveness of bodyweight exercises
Click the link below to listen, and please let me know if you have questions about any of the topics discussed:
If you enjoy the interview please comment on their page and let them know!
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Hey Drew,
Outstanding interview. I love listening to you. Your a meticulous speaker, like a doctor or scientist. I hope you will do a part two soon. I would like to hear your speak on diet /supplements and inflammation. There seems to be maybe something to a paleo/meat and egg type of diet. I do have systemic inflammation and I guess that means issues with my joints. I love performing isometrics, but still do aggravate the pain where I spend most days a week doing self-massage and one or two yoga movements. My current routine has been bodyweight with added resistance from certain objects I have around. What I have been using in performing a seated isometric pullover, is some rolled up blankets and a plastic cooler with folded towel over it on my lap, so the backs of my elbows are pressing down on top of the cooler and blankets. Do you think that is ok to do? I haven’t got those moving straps yet you talked about, but I have found some different varieties at the local home improvement stores.
Thanks, John
Hey John,
Thanks, and they did mention inviting me back so I’ll probably do a part two eventually. You won’t have to wait, though, because a client who has professional audio engineering and production experience is going to help me start up a podcast soon, which will probably go out a few times a month.
I commented and liked on the interviewers page as well. Awesome information Drew. Some of the things that stood out for me:
Really taking the weight vs. resistance thing to it’s full potential. How by doing this you are getting at the muscles, fatiguing, inroading more efficiently.
A properly performed set should look like slow motion Tai Chi. Using resistance to do something to your muscles. Keeping focus on the instant to instant contraction and control of the muscles. Great stuff. Super motivating.
Thanks Donnie!
Great show Drew!
Once again you were talking about how in properly performed barbel squat isn’t possible to use such a heavy weight that will cause intolerable compressive stress on the spine.
Could you tell me how many pounds are using some of your stronger clients in this exercise?
When I see Starting Strength zealots on You Tube taking big breath, free-falling down and then bouncing of the bottom of the squat I get pains in knees and back just from watching. I don’t understand how those guys don’t destroy their joints after just few weeks of this.
Hey Travis,
When taught how to squat properly for the purpose of efficient muscular loading as opposed to just trying to lift the heaviest weight possible most people will need to reduce the weight by at least half. That’s how inefficient most people’s squatting form is.
If the goal is to become as strong as possible while also minimizing risk of injury you should perform exercises in a manner that is as hard as possible relative to the weight used. However, if a person’s goal is to lift the heaviest weight possible for the purpose of competition they need to practice those specific lifts very differently, using the easiest method allowed by competition rules.