This week on iTunes, Stitcher and Spreaker, STT interviews a legend in the strength game. Over the many years that Louie has been involved in powerlifting, he has gained a vast amount of knowledge on how to produce strength. Through experience, his areas of expertise are the percent training method, the conjugate training method, the dynamic training method, the maximum effort method, lifting technique, raising work capacity, rehabilitation and restoration, and the reactive and contrast methods. It is this knowledge and expertise that has led to the production of establishing 100 open world records .He currently trains 33 men who have benched 700 pounds, eight over 800, and two over 900. Plus seventeen over 1000 and six over 1100 in the squat; also eighteen over 800 pounds in the deadlift , thirteen over 2500 pounds total, seven over 2600 pound total, and the only gym to have two over 2700 pound totals, plus two over 2800 pounds total. Louie is one of only six lifters to total Elite in five weight classes. He is the only lifter over 50 years of age to squat 920 and total 2100. Ranked 4th nationally in 2000 in the open division, Louie has squatted 920, benched 600 (at age 50), and deadlifted 722.
The SMARTER Team Training Audio Interview Series has been developed to share insights from some of the best in the industry. Stay tuned for more insights, tips, drills, and techniques to come from STT on iTunes, STT on Stitcher and STT on Spreaker. Be sure to share the STT Audio Interview Series with coaches, trainers, parents, and athletes too.
This week on iTunes, Stitcher and Spreaker, STT interviews a coach that you would want in your corner during a fight. Doug Balzarini has been in the fitness industry for the past 14 years. He is originally from Massachusetts where he earned his undergraduate degree in exercise physiology and had his first personal training job. He moved to San Diego in 2000 and worked for the American Council on Exercise (ACE) for 5 years before starting his career at Fitness Quest 10 as a personal trainer and strength coach. He was there from 2005 to 2011 and worked with clients of all ages and abilities.
The SMARTER Team Training Audio Interview Series has been developed to share insights from some of the best in the industry. Stay tuned for more insights, tips, drills, and techniques to come from STT on iTunes, STT on Stitcher and STT on Spreaker. Be sure to share the STT Audio Interview Series with coaches, trainers, parents, and athletes too.
This week on iTunes, STT interviews an elite MMA trainer. Fitness maverick, founder of the Institute of Human Performance (IHP) , dynamic speaker, sought after consultant, prolific author. For over 30 years Juan Carlos “JC” Santana has been raising the bar in the fitness industry. Santana has been referred to as “the country’s leading practitioner of functional fitness” and personally trained and developed specific programs for all professional sports, youth fitness, fitness for the mature populations, and accelerated rehabilitation.
The SMARTER Team Training Audio Interview Series has been developed to share insights from some of the best in the industry. Stay tuned for more insights, tips, drills, and techniques to come from STT on iTunes. Be sure to share the STT Audio Interview Series with coaches, trainers, parents, and athletes too.
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