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