Ben Patrick, Louie Simmons, and Dave Tate discuss the benefits of sled training over traditional squatting, including improved muscle targeting and increased strength. They explore the intensity of pushing and pulling a sled and its effects on the CNS. Sled training is shown to improve strength, mobility, and activate stabilizer muscles. They emphasize the importance of collaboration in business and offer their expertise to gyms on a month-to-month basis.
Sled work can be more effective than squatting for developing muscular, strong legs.
Influence from experts like Ben Patrick has reinvigorated the speaker's love for sled work and showcased its benefits.
Deep dives
Preference for Sled Work
The speaker expresses a newfound love for sled work and explains why they prefer it over traditional exercises like squatting and deadlifting. They highlight the benefits of minimal warm-up, increased strength gains, and the ability to get a high heart rate and time under tension with the sled. They also mention the influence of Ben Patrick, who has popularized sled training.
Advantages of Sled Work
The speaker lists several advantages of sled work. They emphasize that it can be done every day, accommodates their goals of maintaining lean body mass and low body fat while creating hypertrophy, and primes their body for a workout. The speaker discusses the volume and volume added by sled work, noting the lack of eccentric load as a safety advantage.
The Value of Coaching in a Micro Gym
The speaker talks about the challenges of owning a micro gym and the importance of having someone at a higher level to bounce ideas off of and receive advanced strategies and execution plans. They offer their own coaching services for micro gym owners, providing regular calls, access to resources, and an app for ongoing communication.
Some more Tempo Training discussion as it relates to why I prefer sled work compared to the high volume squatting and deadlifting days of when I used to do CrossFit.
Content monsters like Ben Patrick (Knees Over Toes Guy), Louie Simmons, Dave Tate, and others have reinvigorated my love for sled work and have proven to me that for muscular, strong legs - you don't need to squat as much as you may think.
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