The Power Grid Podcast

When I was 10 years old, my dad took me to see the movie Rocky III and aside from buying the whole champion has a fall from grace, becomes underdog again and fights his way back to the top storyline, hook, line and sinker, I was completely enthralled with one scene in particular where the world boxing champion took on the wrestling champion in a charity match. Rocky Balboa vs Thunderlips the ultimate male. This was my first look at Hulk Hogan which eventually kickstarted my childhood guilty pleasure of watching wrestling. It had the full checklist of items to attract a young me. You had your heroes, villains, colourful characters, wild storylines, chiseled physiques, crazy athleticism….Despite my parents standing in the room and watching with me for a few minutes before walking away laughing and shaking their heads asking ``how can you watch this?” I loved it and I so admired these athletes with their muscles, strength and ability not to mention microphone skills. The 80's wrestlings  so called golden era eventually gave way to the 90's attitude era. Me now in my 20's  living on my own and free from my parents judgement would instead laugh along with the ridiculousness either by myself or with friends when we would get together for the latest pay per view event. We would entertain ourselves going along  with the wrestlers, in character of course as they made their way through their far fetched storylines each  more wild then the last All the while marvelling at the incredible stunts and feats of strength these guys were putting their bodies through. As the months and years went on some really sad stories started to come out about aging wrestlers and how their lifestyle was leading to some tragic consequences. There was drug and steroid abuse (surprise, surprise), alcohol, pills, early death...and even murder! There were so many wrestlers dying young that you can go through your list of favourite wrestlers as a kid and the majority of them are now dead, most before they even made it out of their 40's. Those who didn't happen to drop dead suddenly had suffered from broken bodies, weight gain, depression….definitely not a great way to live out your golden years. Through all these tragic stories of wrestlers retiring to a sad life with debilitating injuries, depression and  addiction  there was one success story that stood out,  Diamond Dallas Page (DDP) had taken his fame that he built through his wrestling career and in retirement started  DDP Yoga. Despite walking away from shark tank without a deal Diamond Dallas Page has created a HUGELY successful brand with his program using his unique form of power yoga using traditional yoga positions, rehabilitation techniques, calisthenics and dynamic resistance. I always talk about the 23/1 rule saying that you need to make the most out of your 23 hours outside the gym to get the best results from your 1 hour in it, a mobility program like this could be a great step to help the strength athlete….After all if it can bring back Jake “The Snake” Roberts from the brink of disaster that he was, it sounds interesting to me! Let's have a look at DDPY for the strength athlete. DDPY with Marcel https://transitioncoach.ca/   marcel@transitioncoach.ca Book a 1 on 1 coaching call with me for the structured strength program: gridironsc@gmail.cominstagram: @gridironsc,Facebook: personal, Chris Sinclair or Gridiron Strength and Conditioning. Support the show

All throughout  human history we have always run our lives based on sets of rules or laws. That list of universal immutable truths that we can point to and say …if we just stick to these base principles…we can't go wrong. If we're talking about the law, here in Canada we have the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms, there's the U.S constitution…religion has The ten commandments!  All of these laws give us a base of knowledge to fall back on and use to build and shape our understanding of the given subject. In the strength and conditioning world people, more often than not, tend to fly blind and just…start. Don't get me wrong, getting started with anything and figuring it out as you go can be fine! But often people spend years either not getting the best gains in strength and muscle that they can , or even just doing it wrong!  They just put a weight in their hands and start...lifting…well, actually they usually start curling it if I'm being honest, which is exactly the point, athletes start out with no direction, no coaching, no clue on the safety or efficacy of the exercises they're doing…..Talk about learning to fly on the way down. But fear not… today I'm going to lay out the list we've all wished we had going back to those early days when we wandered around the weight room with no idea what to do or how to do it, all the while trying to give the complete opposite impression. Here are the 8 iron rules of strength training. To contact me directly or get on a coaching call: gridironsc@gmail.comSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/powergrid)

Welcome to the Power Grid Podcast. My name is Chris Sinclair.Each week I look forward to delivering a new episode right to you where we provide quality information about strength training, helpful tips and tricks for the gym, witty banter and inspiring  guests from the strength and conditioning world. This podcast is a culmination of over 30 years of lifting, coaching and gym life and is going to be a valuable resource for the novice lifter looking to learn the right way and even the seasoned veteran wanting to take their strength gains to the next level.Subscribe now on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Spotify or your favourite podcast app to catch new episodes of the Power Grid podcast every week! Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/powergrid)