Sal Di Stefano

And the stability training and coordination stuff that they had the whole classroom doing was like, to think you got a whole classroom of kids able to do that as well.

You would never see that in you.

There's no way you would get a whole classroom of kids.

It was like uniform, tight.

Perfect movement over, yeah, really overloading their athletes.

Were they measuring back then how much the athlete could tap into their strength?

Meaning like we have studies that show like the Olympic lifter that can utilize 90-something percent of their strength capacity.

The average person is only like 65 or 70 percent.

It's funny that, I mean, you're talking about like the 80s right now, right?

So it was early 80s.

Yeah, yeah.

70s, 80s.

Yeah, late 70s, early 80s that we understood the science, yet it's so common to see somebody –

Training to failure all the time and pushing the intensity and volume in their workouts.

Yes.

Why?

Why if we saw this now for 40 years, we've understood this science, yet we still tend to go about it the wrong way?

Strength conditioning world knows this.

I think that's probably why like our culture didn't really adopt it, you know, quite as frequently.

And two of these like, you know, gym influencer, like, you know, bodybuilder type, you know, have a totally different approach, which I think just totally took over.