Bulk Boys 15: Max Shethar

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 TIMESTAMPS 00:20 Introducing Montana’s strongest little brother 01:00 Max’s mustache is multi-ply 01:30 Max’s 500 pound bench is not poverty 02:40 His Max is using headphones won from Dave & Buster’s 03:30 Intuitive drinking 04:15 Age records are killing your gains 05:00 That celebration looked pretty enhanced to me 05:50 Max’s patient progression 06:00 His empty calendar 07:00 The design of his training blocks 08:35 Max’s low bar technique 10:30 Pre-squat mobility and self-talk 11:20 The Dave Tate soundboard 12:00 Leg extension withdrawal 13:00 Other less important leg accessories 14:00 Variation between belt squats 15:30 Why you should never use three fingers 16:00 Chase stimulus over external load on developmental movements 17:30 Walking the line on RDLs 19:00 SLDLs after deadlifts cultivate legitimate meat 20:30 Max’s current split, and how that split has evolved 24:00 The ego check of transitioning from a strength phase to a hypertrophy phase 27:00 Your ten-rep max probably isn’t relevant to your 1-rep max 28:00 Max corrects some misconceptions about Large Lads canon 29:00 Young Max had to put pillows under the blankets to defend his shins from Sam’s baseball bat 31:00 Early training strategies 31:30 Max decided to be gifted 32:00 The accountability of progress; eleven-year old vanity 32:50 “a really depressed loser who had a massive ego” 33:45 water cameo 34:00 Max also gets nothing out of straps (see Freakie D) 36:30 Training grip 38:30 The myth of “skin toughness” (it’s just your grip) 39:00 Monk-mode Max refuses to announce his intentions 40:00 Max’s long-term ambitions 43:30 Max’s advices for athletic longevity 46:45 Low bar squatting like one of the French girls 48:00 Recovery maxing 51:45 If you are checking your phone after belt squats, you dun goofed 55:00 Adopting the angst lord mindset 56:30 Doom OST for pushdowns only 57:30 Lifting music is the heart of this podcast 1:00:00 Being fourteen and living out an Animal Pak ad on the bus to the YMCA 1:01:00 We reminisce on our first 500 pound squats (I was thirty; Max was fifteen) 1:05:00 Brotherhood 1:06:45 Even the lone wolf needs its belly scratch 1:07:00 Max makes a STRONG pod-ending statement 1:08:00 Large Lads shout-out