Adam Schafer

I just wanted to see, and if you go back on some of our podcasts.

I had no intentions of trying to hit a PR.

It was literally, let's see how little I could do and maintain.

Maintain my strength, maintain my muscle.

To my surprise, even though we promote this to listeners all the time,

I was getting stronger and stronger and stronger.

And within, I think it was like 70 days, it wasn't even three months.

It was like less than three months.

I pulled 605 pounds at 42 years old and I was sold.

This style of training can not just be good enough, it can actually be superior.

I think it's the second one because I was thinking a lot about this in preparation for this episode.

And I know I can find lots of data.

on strength training for strength in particular.

There's actually good studies on this.

The Olympic lifters have been, this has been studied for a long time with Olympic lifters.

Power lifters have been around long enough now where we have pretty good ideas of what really work.

We've got decades of training and decades of data around this.

But the problem is when you look at that, you're dealing with a population of people where that's just all they do.

That's all they do.

They don't have normal lives.