Strength Chat By Kabuki Strength

Today's guest is author, coach, and well known meathead Paul Carter! Paul owns and operates his own company Lift Run Bang and produces content for various platforms like T-Nation, EliteFTS, and Flex Magazine as well as his own. He is the co-author of the Maximum Muscle Bible and just recently released his Super Soldier Protocol. Paul is actually coming down to the Lab for a seminar he is hosting along with Christian Thibaudeau in August!  Great episode with lots of talk about gains in the gym and in life.  As always, please share, like, subscribe, and leave a review if you enjoy our show! 

We are thrilled to host two LEGENDS on today's episode of Strength Chat! Kirk Karwoski - known as Captain Kirk - and Marty Gallagher, one of the best powerlifting coaches in the sport's history sit down with our hosts and reminisce on the golden age of powerlifting.  Learn about how Marty coached Kirk, Ed Coan, and other world champions and hear interesting stories from the weight room as told by none other than Captain Kirk himself.  An entertaining and informative listen, this episode is one you don't want to miss! As always, please like, comment, share, and tell all your friends about Strength Chat! 

Brian Carroll is no stranger to injury and rehab. After being assessed by Dr. Stuart McGill, he was told that he has one of the worst backs Dr. McGill has ever seen. The story doesn't end there however - and with the good doctor's help Brian was able to come back healthier than ever.  Brian is also known for writing 10/20/Life as well as co-authoring The Gift of Injury with Dr. McGill. He is one of the top powerlifters of his generation and has loads of wisdom and knowledge to share with our listeners.  Give it a listen, and as always - make sure to share with your friends and leave us a review. 

This week's guest is one of the top IFBB Pro bodybuilders of the last decade - Ben Pakulski. He is recently retired but continues on by sharing knowledge and training athletes as part of his MI40 program and organization.  On this episode our hosts sit down and talk hypertrophy and training principles with Ben, who has an incredible amount of knowledge when it comes to gaining muscle and training for bodybuilding.  We hope you enjoy this episode of Strength Chat, and make sure to check out MI40 at the link below! mi40nation.com 

Today's Strength Chat guest is Martin Bingisser, all the way from Switzerland! Martin is a hammer thrower and coaches the Swiss national track team. He worked alongside and under Anatoli Bondarchuk, known as one of the most successful throwing coaches of all time. Martin also publishes content online on his site - HMMRMedia, which is a great resource for coaches and athletes from many disciplines.  As always - tune in, share with your friends, and stay strong of mind and body friends!   

This week's episode is a live Q&A Roundtable where we take questions from our live listeners and IG audience and answer them live. Sitting in for Dr. Rudolph is Coach Brady, the skinniest man to deadlift 700 pounds. As always, make sure to comment, leave a review, and of course tell your friends about us!

Today's episode is much more personal than our typical episode. Our guest - live and in-person at the Kabuki Strength Studio - is one of the strongest men in the world in his day, Chad Aichs. Chad is a long-time friend of Kabuki and the Mad Scientist, and on today's show he opens up and shares his incredible story of a battle with depression, insomnia, and despair that he was determined to win, and did win.  Chad Aichs is a world class and elite powerlifter in the SHW division. He began training seriously for powerlifting in 1999 in Sparks, Nevada, where he still currently trains at American Iron Gym. In the ten years since he started, Aichs has proven to be one of the strongest lifters in the world. His best lifts are a 1173 squat, 821 bench press and a 755 pull. Aichs' best total is 2733, which makes him one of the top lifters of all time. Tune in and enjoy! If you liked this episode or our show in general, please share with your friends and of course drop us a review! 

This week's guest is Alex Viada, the founder and mastermind behind Complete Human Performance. Alex is a lifelong athlete and the only person known to have ever deadlifted over 700 pounds within a week of running a 50 mile ultra-marathon. (This record is not official, but is most likely accurate as to date he’s just fairly certain nobody else has bothered to try it.) Alex has coached hundreds of athletes over a 13 year (to date) career, in many sports ranging from bodybuilding to ultra running to cycling to powerlifting.  On today's episode we discuss Alex's new book - The Hybrid Athlete - among other topics including: energy systems maximum recoverable volume improving training capacity for the strength athlete strength for the endurance athlete.

Dr. Mike Israetel is one of the most recognized researchers and scientists in the strength community, having worked with hundreds of athletes and coaches, as well as created loads of high quality content in every format imaginable.  Mike is a professor of Exercise Science at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA and was previously a professor at the University of Central Missouri, where he taught Exercise Physiology, Personal Training, and Advanced Programming for sports and fitness. Mike’s PhD is in Sport Physiology, and he has been a consultant on sports nutrition to the U.S. Olympic Training Site in Johnson City, TN. Mike has coached numerous powerlifters, weightlifters, bodybuilders, and other individuals in both diet and weight training. Originally from Moscow, Russia, Mike is a competitive powerlifter, bodybuilder, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu grappler.  In this episode we discuss: Discussion on Dr. Mike's new book - Recovering from Training Hierarchy/Prioritization of Recovery Training within your MRV Acti

In today's episode we talk to one of the most cited authors in the strength and conditioning industry - Dr. Tim Gabbett!  He holds a PhD in Human Physiology (2000) and has completed a second PhD in the Applied Science of Professional Football (2011) , with special reference to physical demands, injury prevention, and skill acquisition. Tim has worked with elite international athletes over several Commonwealth Games (2002 and 2006) and Olympic Games (2000, 2004, and 2008) cycles. He continues to work as a sport science and coaching consultant for several high performance teams around the world. Tim has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and has presented at over 200 national and international conferences. He is committed to performing world-leading research that can be applied in the ‘real world’ to benefit high performance coaches and athletes. Some of today's topics include: Myths around loading Collecting data when there is too much data Physical sciences relationship to psychological and social sci

Travis Mash is our guest today, and like most guests on our show, he hardly needs an introduction! Travis is one of the most recognized olympic weightlifting coaches in the world, as well as an accomplished lifter himself having broken Ed Coan's all-time pound-for-pound total record in powerlifting. He owns Mash Elite Performance in North Carolina where he coaches elite level athletes and lifters into world champions. On today's episode our hosts Brady Cable and Brandon Senn discuss Travis' new book on VBT, training principles, lifting culture, and the philosophy of training among other excellent topics! Enjoy!

Lee Taft, known to most simply as “The Speed Guy”, is highly respected as one of the top athletic movement specialists in the world! Sound like something we might be interested in? Sure is!  Our hosts sit down with Lee and talk about multi-directional speed - Lee's specialty - and why it's important to athletic development. They discuss the "6 basic movements" and their integration into strength and speed training. Of course, plenty of other topics and touched on and discussed as well!  

This week we are honored to have the one-and-only Juggernaut himself, Chad Wesley Smith, on our podcast! Chad hardly needs an introduction, having become one of the most recognized strength coaches in the industry and one of the strongest men in the world!  Chad's athletic background and transition to strength sports Chad's personal philosophy on programming and training VBT All sorts of other strength nuggets!  As always, if you enjoyed this podcast and learned a thing or two, please leave a review and tell your friends about it! 

Today's doubleheader are two incredibly knowledgeable and accomplished individuals - Dr. Michael Rintala and Dr. Richard Ulm, both from the Prague Institute of Rehabilitation. They are instructors on DNS [Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization], which is a school of thought that is foundational to our own movement philosophy here at Kabuki Strength. Topics include: Bracing Strategies Eccentric and Concentric Loading Breathing while Bracing Youth Athletics Athletic Development  Ideal Maturations of the Nervous System

This week's guest is long-time friend and The Mad Scientist's ultimate hype-man Dr. Raphael Castro, from New York! Dr. Castro is a licensed chiropractor who works with a large athletic population. Among some of the topics discussed are: Dr. Castro's introduction to chiropractic His experiences working with Crossfit athletes Dealing with old injuries and issues All about kinesio tape and how it works Communicating with patients effectively The power of the mind How strong Raphael actually is Next week we go on a break and will return with awesome guests and episodes the following week! Thanks for tuning in! 

Join us on today's Roundtable Q&A where our hosts along with Coach Brady Cable sit down and answer questions from users on social media. If you want your question answered, watch out for the next IG live notification and get your question in when we're podcastin' live!

Today's guest is Cameron Josse!  Cameron Josse is the Director of Sports Performance at DeFranco’s Gym at the Onnit Academy. He has worked with DeFranco’s Gym owner Joe DeFranco since he was 17 years old. As a former athlete in DeFranco’s training programs, Cameron was exposed to Joe’s unique approach to developing all the tools needed to succeed in athletics, eventually landing him on staff at DeFranco’s Gym. Cameron has worked with a wide variety of athletes, from youth all the way up to professional. He uses his experience as a former high school and collegiate athlete to enable him to connect with the athletes he deals with on a daily basis. Coupling all of the core principles of DeFranco’s Gym in addition to the unconventional training methods found at Onnit, Cameron aims to create fully optimized athletes that dominate on the field of play.

This week's guest is Dr. Stasha Gominak, a medical professional and researcher currently working on the link between vitamin D and sleep health, among other important topics in health discourse. In today's episode, our hosts and Dr. Gominak dive deep into the importance of sleep as it relates to health, strength, and performance. They also discuss the current research on sleep, vitamin D, and even gut health.  A must-listen episode of Strength Chat for sure! Check out more about Dr. Gominak at her site drgominak.com

Phil Daru is a rapidly rising strength coach for Professional MMA Athletes, and creator of Daru Strong Specialized Training Systems. He is a former D1 football player, Strength Conditioning Coach for American Top Team, retired Pro MMA fighter, and has degrees in sports medicine and exercise science. We're thrilled to have Phil on our show to discuss how the world of movement and strength is exploding in side the fighting sports world.  Make sure to check out more information on Phil at his site darustrong.com

Cal Dietz is a man with a resume that can't be summed up in one paragraph, so we won't even try. He is the strength and conditioning coach for numerous sports at the University of Minnesota and has coached countless teams and individuals to the international elite and professional levels in many different sports. During his time at the university he helped found and chairs the Sport Biomechanics Interest Group with its purpose to explore the physiological and biomechanical aspects of advanced human performance encompassing the various aspects of kinesiology, biomechanics, neuro-mechanics and physics. This will be achieved by utilizing extensive research theories and applied knowledge in the multi-disciplinary field of human performance. During his time at the university, Dietz has given numerous lectures around the country, as well as publish several scientific articles and dozens articles on training. Most recently, Dietz co-authored the the top selling book, Triphasic Training: A systematic approach to elit