017: Max Schmarzo How Strong is Too Strong, Fad Diets and More- PJF Podcast

Announcing EdgeU 3:34
Max's Background 13:05
Is Caffeine a Performance Enhancer 30:48
Importance of Blood Test 37:48
Supplement Recommendations 45:16
Fad Diets and Myths 51:25
Velocity Based Training 1:01:01
How Strong is Strong Enough 1:25:03
Does Building Muscle Increase Performance 1:51:56
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[@adithyasuresh6899]

Man your podcasts soo underrated!! It's so crazy and frustrating. Please keep up this work.

[@dimitriss3635]

This is Lebron & AD of the strenght and conditioning world

[@sportssciencetranslatorcc9776]

Notorious James Kobe & Shaq!

[@donperriogne7878]

Mj and Scottie

[@markoaurelius4426]

Zach Salisbury Jr Smith and Alex Caruso

[@generalsbtv4387]

kobe and shaq

[@axellouissaint3559]

Awesome podcast like every time!! Thank you! Can you talk about stable or unstable surface proprioception work

[@lifeegood6692]

Check out Episode 19 of the pjf performance podcast w/ matt Cooper. Might help ya out

[@Sunil-yq2rn]

You already a champion of the people. Respect!

[@justindg21]

Man i been patiently waiting for another one. Tbe #squidlife

[@mattturner1037]

These podcasts 🤯. Only half way in! But it’s crazy how much difference setting a goal can do both consciously and subconsciously! Like if you set a goal, write it out and read it to yourself everyday you start subconsciously making little choices that add up to huge change like interest in a loan! But now by setting performance based goals, example the velocity training where you are getting conscious feed back to help minimal’ consciously’ ‘self organise’ to improve is a whole new game! Making progressive overload a competition!

[@timioni2016]

that hardware software analogy was top tier

[@jamesrocco4343]

Thanks for the awesome content! I am a high school coach and its changed our entire approach toward building players. Question...How should we use the vert code elite for inseason athletic performance. We have only two days per week available. Should it be two expload days with added upper to get whole body? An expload and core with added upper? Or should we hit the vert code body weight? This preseason, we had most of our athletes, middle to JV using vert code and the V athletes on vert code elite. Each three days a week in pre-season. Thanks!

[@cryptogymbro]

I don't think u can run those programs in season, just will reck recovery, unless few meta exercises with minimal dosage in short sessions, even 20min on game day. He have been talking about it in some podcast. I'm pro fucking strength coach. PJF is godlike like verkhoshansky.🤗💪🏿🦍

[@petarmatijevic8701]

amazing stuff,quality content

[@laquan7678]

Superb.

[@matthewkoenig]

Awesome content. Excited for EdgeU! I have a question though...What if your knees weren't the limiting factor for performance as you guys were saying???

[@jasonrich8074]

how can i get out of the blocks faster for track. more power

[@hanwenliu7063]

two fucking geniuses

[@stephonridley9361]

Anyone know that book max was talking about at the 1:29:30-1:29:34

[@danielajetunmobi3949]

I’m really close to touching the rim. But I don’t jump as high with a 2 or 3 step approach than a 1 step approach. I think it’s because I can’t translate the speed I take with an approach into vertical height. What can I do to be more stable and jump higher after an approach.

[@davegohan]

work on your penultimate step, alot of it is covered on the vert code programs but if u cant go do sum reasearch

[@Hoop639]

If that’s the case you should be excited because it means your mechanics are just out of wake and getting them right can fuckimg sky rocket you

[@matthewkoenig]

Train your tibialis muscle!!!

[@donperriogne7878]

Anybody else notice major stomach pains when taking creatine. I’m more than hydrated and even after 6 weeks of taking it it still messes up my stomach

[@ArmasStrength]

Zach Salisbury it doesn’t affect me (I take monohydrate) but I knew some ppl it did. They took a buffered version but idk how effective that creatine that was

[@cheliesimmons4860]

Yes, I get the gut issues with Creatine Monohydrate. You can try to switch brands, or cycle off and try 1 gram and build up to 5 grams 1 gram per week. Gut issues are one of the most common side effects.

[@jiahuaguo1869]

What about fadeaways? Does squatting heavy translate to more efficient fadeaway? I assume you need a lot of lower body strength to pull those off consistently? @PJFPerformance

[@jiahuaguo1869]

Muscles have no memories. You mean neural memories

[@jiahuaguo1869]

@Chris Williams You mean smart and athletic lmao

[@davianoconnel3097]

Should we always use velocity based training (super fast on way up)?

[@simonedilernia225]

if it you want to be faster yeh

[@simonedilernia225]

even with weights

[@ates423]

Some days I can grab rim. Some days I can barely touch it. Some days I can rim graze dunk, but I never did a full dunk. This is off of straight vert btw. I really don’t know how to translate running speed to more vertical.

[@lombardia1509]

Train your core?

[@lombardia1509]

It seems your body doesn't allow it to translate because you don't have enough control and/or your nervous system is not ready for it. Probably both

[@ates423]

@@lombardia1509 that could be it. I mostly just lift weights rather than play basketball nowadays

[@lombardia1509]

@@ates423 then it's the nervous system. Check out mechanics on how to jump from one or two

[@yuyu8163]

Why is the podcast on Spotify only 33 minutes

[@JTempleton]

I came here to say the same thing. Yeah they should fix that.

[@donperriogne7878]

Yea same here

[@123456mrkyle]

🧠

[@noob-nm5ro]

That frustrated gamer wall

[@21Lauiiiiiiiiii]

Whats your opinion on knees over toes training? @kneesovertoesguy on Instagram

[@bakha3046]

Que Dios nos perdone.

[@noonevincecarterfan]

The elephant in the room where Zion is, is steroids. I hate to say it, but as someone from the bodybuilding comunity who's studied steroids quite a bit and learned from true experts in that field, I can honestly say that there is no way for anyone no matter their genetic makeup to achieve a physique like Zion's without help of PED's - period. At 19 he was bigger than most natural bodybuilders in the world (who all spent many years getting that big and trained exclusively for that). As one doctor pointed out, when so many NBA players have the "lateral deltoid syndrome" with huge lateral deltoids, that is a tell tail sign of steroids use since the lateral delts really only will seriously hypertrophy with abnormal high levels of testosterone due to the high androgen receptor density in the part of the deltoid. If you look at many players around the league, you will see just that. LeBron, Dwight, AD, Rondo, Jimmy Butler, Vince Carter, Kemba Walker, Andrew Wiggins and many more. You see this more and more often. As Coach George Karl also pointed out, it's a weird thing that players get more athletic way up in their 30's these days. Well let's just start accepting that PED's is a huge part of the NBA and live with it.

[@Jsoccer1999]

You’re just wrong on Zion. He’s just a freak. But he’s got a lot of fat on him, that’s what allows him to carry so much muscle as well. If you grew up around a lot of guys from the hood like I did, you’ll see that a lot of them have naturally insane side deltsvsense they’re like 14, so if they workout they blow up. I do wonder about later in career athleticism maintenance in the nba, that could happen

[@lalon8721]

Superb.