“I asked him the secret to throwing the discus far, and he said famously, lift weights three days a week, which of course I ignored. Throw the discus four days a week over the next eight years. And of course, the thing everybody misses is that eight years part.”

…I wish I would have known at 30, but it's the loaded carry family. I mean, I know a lot of people take credit for it. But if you go back to the late 90s and then, of course, with my big injury, I think I'm one of the first people to write articles about it. I think loaded carries were a big miss.

…how has that shaped you? Because I do feel like there's today there's more information than ever. People want to throw in as many shiny things as possible. But you keep going back to the fact that like do the basic human movements. Don't overdo them. Progress slowly and you'll end up in a good

heard that at one point you were, I believe it was the Olympic Training Center you were training, and they told you to max everything out, eat as much as possible, gain weight. And you said that wrecked you. And you actually had better results when you weren't lifting as hard as often and when you…

Well, that this is always the problem, Michael, inner field. Always. More must be better. Once you hit strong enough, adding more doesn't do anything else except make you. I got to tell you that that decision, you know, I only know the number in pounds, but I got my squad up to 605 for three.…

This idea of enough, what do you think that looks like for the average person at different stages in life? So you're 30, you're 50, you're 70. Like, how strong do people need to be in order to for health outcomes, for function?