Adam Schafer

Well, it's the foundation of pretty much all pursuits in fitness.

Even athletic, aesthetic, health, longevity, no matter what your pursuit is.

You get strong in those lifts.

That lays a very solid foundation for whatever the thing you're going to pursue for the rest of your life or whatever you're going to move in and out of if you decide to change your mind through it.

Like laying this foundation is the best way to build a long-term.

Even the brilliant coaches that you're referring to, like the Mike Boyles and stuff like that that are, like, heavier on the Bulgarians and lunges and things like that, I still would make an argument for laying a foundation in the squat first.

Yeah, absolutely.

Right?

Like, I totally can get behind everything and his philosophy for training athletes and one of the most brilliant.

Longevity-wise, yeah.

Is this Louis Simmons who's responsible for this?

I would say Westside.

I mean, I wasn't familiar with it until seeing like Westside barbell type stuff.

Before that, I don't remember too many people communicating or talking about it.

And then I feel like they popularized it for sure.

I've seen the formula before for the physics breakdown on that.

It's significantly more.

Depending on the speed.

So if you're dropping down, lowering in a squat at 150 pounds, like you're saying, for that moment of changing direction, your body is feeling like two or three times the weight.

I don't remember what it was.