Dr. Bret Contreras

So if you got the absolute best or the relative best, strength divided by body weight, at any lift, and then we had the total lift, and then we had strongest upper body, strongest lower body, strongest presser, which were squats, military, and bench, strongest puller, which was chin-ups and, you know, deadlifts.

So strongest lower body, strongest upper body.

We could mix it around.

I had like 55 awards I'd give out.

But the point was the women would go – like my clients, like Amanda would be like, Carly just hit a PR.

I got to beat her.

Like they got competitive with it.

No, I would say we did –

kind of like the lower, upper, lower, upper, lower, because they wanted to come in every day.

They were bored to death.

So we'd have three lower body days, and we would do probably a variation of each, but some days it would be like we're trying to squat really hard.

Some days we're trying to deadlift hard.

You can't squat, deadlift.

You could hip thrust hard three times a week.

That works you in the squeeze position.

It doesn't beat you up as much.

But as we started getting stronger at deadlifts, we realized some things.

We were doing touch and go, meaning you bounce the weight up.

You don't reset.

You don't set the weight down, reset it, then lift it up.