Adam Schafer

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.

These are people who are highly trained.

Everything's scheduled around that.

A lot of them do have jobs, but this is their life focus because we're looking at, like I said, a subset of people.

Whereas the average person, like you said, Adam, they have jobs.

They have kids.

They're not getting perfect sleep every single night.

They're not eating perfect all the time, but they like to work out.

And I think when they apply those strategies, they quickly burn out or they see results.