Louie Simmons

It's so close.

We had, we had some things that were really so close, but you know, as, as things change, there's this adaptation of my mentor and powerlifting was Louie Simmons.

And I think one of the things he did in terms of totally revolutionizing the sport is he always kind of stayed ahead of the curve.

Um, he never seemingly became myopic to, well, back in the old days, this is, you know, he, he, he, used the wisdom from the past to in part guide the future, but he was always forward thinking and always into the next, the next thing.

And it's like, that's, that's exactly it.

Like it goes back to the old Louie Simmons quote, don't have, don't have a 10 cent squat with $200 shoes.

It's, it's the same principle.

And I shit, man, I wish I could pull it up.

Yeah, but like, yeah.

And then, yeah, you grow up and you hear Louie Simmons talking so terrible about doing [laughs] this.

It's like I can't bring myself to do that, you know? I'm like, I j- he's dead, and I still don't wanna go do that because I remember what he would say about that.

He's like, "Ah, don't go beat up on those old guys." I'm like, "Okay." I mean, I just can't do it, you know? Like, so.

And we have all kinds of options that we use.

Now, you can probably tell the Louie Simmons.

Yep.

you know, influence and Louie Simmons was a great influence.

I mean, I had a lot of guys that were great influences.

Now, did we do Louie Simmons program? No, but we incorporated elements, you know, of his training and he was, you know, brilliant.

I mean, probably the best power lifting coach who's ever lived.

You talked about single leg, and for me, I say that there's difference in single leg where it's pure single leg.

You're like, man, uh, duh, that's, uh...

I've had Jesus, uh, Aristotle, uh, Louis Simmons.

You know, it's just, that's why I love it.

It's so wide open [laughs].

Spent three or four years powerlifting and Olympic weightlifting, and in that time, you learn an awful lot about getting strong.

You read all the books, you look at all the Louis Simmons stuff, you look at all the other good powerlifting coaches and stuff and the different methods, and ultimately you realize, oh, it's just progressive overload and management fatigue, and that's pretty much it.

And then around endurance, all the Steve Magnus stuff, all the marathon trainers, all the 5K lads, and you realise it's accumulating volume without getting injured and ever so slightly tweaking your sessions around the target race.

And that's pretty much it.