Adam Schafer

I also think that if your overall goal is like real-world training, we're not talking about the person who's chasing a PR for their powerlifting meet, right? Everybody else who wants to look good, feel good, be strong in real life. Challenging with like slowing it down and the other things you're going to talk about.

I also think that if your overall goal is like real-world training, we're not talking about the person who's chasing a PR for their powerlifting meet, right? Everybody else who wants to look good, feel good, be strong in real life. Challenging with like slowing it down and the other things you're going to talk about.

Like, we don't live in a world where when I go to pick up the couch, I stop my buddy before grabbing it. Hold on, let me get my four seconds down and then two seconds at the bottom, then we grab it and then make sure we come up in two seconds. Like, you don't do that. Like, sometimes you have to get down and you're working your hands and you're holding that position for a little while.

Like, we don't live in a world where when I go to pick up the couch, I stop my buddy before grabbing it. Hold on, let me get my four seconds down and then two seconds at the bottom, then we grab it and then make sure we come up in two seconds. Like, you don't do that. Like, sometimes you have to get down and you're working your hands and you're holding that position for a little while.

Like, we don't live in a world where when I go to pick up the couch, I stop my buddy before grabbing it. Hold on, let me get my four seconds down and then two seconds at the bottom, then we grab it and then make sure we come up in two seconds. Like, you don't do that. Like, sometimes you have to get down and you're working your hands and you're holding that position for a little while.

Sometimes you do it slow. Sometimes you do it fast. Like, there's lots of ways that you want to be strong that in this perfect 4-2-2 cadence or whatever you move the barbell in. And so... Moving it slower, moving it faster, all these weight pausing, all these things that you're going to talk about, I think are so important for protecting the body out into the real world.

Sometimes you do it slow. Sometimes you do it fast. Like, there's lots of ways that you want to be strong that in this perfect 4-2-2 cadence or whatever you move the barbell in. And so... Moving it slower, moving it faster, all these weight pausing, all these things that you're going to talk about, I think are so important for protecting the body out into the real world.

Sometimes you do it slow. Sometimes you do it fast. Like, there's lots of ways that you want to be strong that in this perfect 4-2-2 cadence or whatever you move the barbell in. And so... Moving it slower, moving it faster, all these weight pausing, all these things that you're going to talk about, I think are so important for protecting the body out into the real world.

do four second negatives on all your lifts and you're going to have to go lighter yeah period well that what the i used to do the same thing with my client that you just described and i think this is a good skill for everybody to learn to do uh because i don't know if you go to enough gyms with different machines and weights and and have days where you have good rest not so good rest and train you're going to find that many times in your life you're going to choose a weight

do four second negatives on all your lifts and you're going to have to go lighter yeah period well that what the i used to do the same thing with my client that you just described and i think this is a good skill for everybody to learn to do uh because i don't know if you go to enough gyms with different machines and weights and and have days where you have good rest not so good rest and train you're going to find that many times in your life you're going to choose a weight

do four second negatives on all your lifts and you're going to have to go lighter yeah period well that what the i used to do the same thing with my client that you just described and i think this is a good skill for everybody to learn to do uh because i don't know if you go to enough gyms with different machines and weights and and have days where you have good rest not so good rest and train you're going to find that many times in your life you're going to choose a weight

that ends up feeling lighter than what you probably could have done. And like having that skill to be able to slow down, to just slow down. So that's how I train today. Like I don't even really, like I don't find myself yesterday was the first time I trained in a while, like almost 30 days. So I know I'm weak. So I know I'm much weaker than what I was when I was riding the swing of things.

that ends up feeling lighter than what you probably could have done. And like having that skill to be able to slow down, to just slow down. So that's how I train today. Like I don't even really, like I don't find myself yesterday was the first time I trained in a while, like almost 30 days. So I know I'm weak. So I know I'm much weaker than what I was when I was riding the swing of things.

that ends up feeling lighter than what you probably could have done. And like having that skill to be able to slow down, to just slow down. So that's how I train today. Like I don't even really, like I don't find myself yesterday was the first time I trained in a while, like almost 30 days. So I know I'm weak. So I know I'm much weaker than what I was when I was riding the swing of things.

And I'm not, and I'm getting ready to do lap pull down and I'm not going like, God, am I hit?

And I'm not, and I'm getting ready to do lap pull down and I'm not going like, God, am I hit?

And I'm not, and I'm getting ready to do lap pull down and I'm not going like, God, am I hit?

am i at 180 right now or am i at 120 just pick a weight and then make it hard and then i make it hard it doesn't even matter what i pick and so i just i in fact i don't even remember what it was i just slid it in and i knew better than i slid it in my pr you know what i'm saying but i just picked a light weight that i know that isn't isn't going to hurt me and then as i was doing i was like oh that was really easy and so the last like five reps i just i squeezed i paused grip it harder yeah

am i at 180 right now or am i at 120 just pick a weight and then make it hard and then i make it hard it doesn't even matter what i pick and so i just i in fact i don't even remember what it was i just slid it in and i knew better than i slid it in my pr you know what i'm saying but i just picked a light weight that i know that isn't isn't going to hurt me and then as i was doing i was like oh that was really easy and so the last like five reps i just i squeezed i paused grip it harder yeah

am i at 180 right now or am i at 120 just pick a weight and then make it hard and then i make it hard it doesn't even matter what i pick and so i just i in fact i don't even remember what it was i just slid it in and i knew better than i slid it in my pr you know what i'm saying but i just picked a light weight that i know that isn't isn't going to hurt me and then as i was doing i was like oh that was really easy and so the last like five reps i just i squeezed i paused grip it harder yeah