Dr. Bret Contreras

And then you switch.

Then you start at basically, can you gain strength?

Are you kind of moving up over time?

You know, you said it yesterday, there's going to be a jigsaw, what did you call it?

A saw, but it's... Up into the right sawtooth pattern.

Sawtooth pattern, but up into the right.

Over time, are you making gains?

And that's where I've been heavily influenced by a powerlifting coach who passed away, Louie Simmons.

I really like the idea that his...

His powerlifters were like, you know, platform ready year round.

They would max out year round.

I'm going, how do you max out on squats, deadlifts, good mornings year round?

They'd have one max effort day a week, and then they'd have a dynamic effort day, you know, where they focused on speed or like reps, but it wasn't going crazy.

But their max effort day, they'd switch it around a lot.

That's how they could compete year-round like that.

And a lot of what I do is influenced by him.

All of us strength coaches back in the late 90s, the early 2000s, he was our primary influence.

You could talk to all the popular strength coaches back when I came up.

They would all say they were influenced by Louie Simmons.

But he did things a certain way.