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Bulk Boys 15: Max Shethar
1 hour 9 minutes Posted Jun 28, 2024 at 9:00 pm.
Introducing Montana’s strongest little brother
Max’s mustache is multi-ply
Max’s 500 pound bench is not poverty
His Max is using headphones won from Dave & Buster’s
Intuitive drinking
Age records are killing your gains
That celebration looked pretty enhanced to me
Max’s patient progression
His empty calendar
The design of his training blocks
Max’s low bar technique
Pre-squat mobility and self-talk
The Dave Tate soundboard
Leg extension withdrawal
Other less important leg accessories
Variation between belt squats
Why you should never use three fingers
Chase stimulus over external load on developmental movements
Walking the line on RDLs
SLDLs after deadlifts cultivate legitimate meat
Max’s current split, and how that split has evolved
The ego check of transitioning from a strength phase to a hypertrophy phase
Your ten-rep max probably isn’t relevant to your 1-rep max
Max corrects some misconceptions about Large Lads canon
Young Max had to put pillows under the blankets to defend his shins from Sam’s baseball bat
Early training strategies
Max decided to be gifted
The accountability of progress; eleven-year old vanity
“a really depressed loser who had a massive ego”
*water cameo*
Max also gets nothing out of straps (see Freakie D)
Training grip
The myth of “skin toughness” (it’s just your grip)
Monk-mode Max refuses to announce his intentions
Max’s long-term ambitions
Max’s advices for athletic longevity
Low bar squatting like one of the French girls
Recovery maxing
If you are checking your phone after belt squats, you dun goofed
Adopting the angst lord mindset
Doom OST for pushdowns only
Lifting music is the heart of this podcast
Being fourteen and living out an Animal Pak ad on the bus to the YMCA
We reminisce on our first 500 pound squats (I was thirty; Max was fifteen)
Brotherhood
Even the lone wolf needs its belly scratch
Max makes a STRONG pod-ending statement
Large Lads shout-out
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Max Shethar is a twenty-one year old phenom, but only the second strongest bencher in his household. He's squatted 766.1, benched 462.9, and deadlifted 804.7 in competition; since then he's pulled 820 and benched 500 in the gym. Listen to HIS podcast, Large Lads, follow  @ShetharTraining , and find him on Instagram @the_one_rep_max
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