From the archive :
9/20/17 “Notes From Bill Kazmier Interview : Brute Strength Among Other Things”
I was listening to Kaz be interviewed by Josh Bryant, and a few things struck me.
On Event Practice And Brute Strength :
“When you’re strong enough you don’t need to prepare for any event”
On Intensity :
Hard labor as a base.
Training til he uncontrollably shakes.
Moving reps fast, and taking little rest.
Piston reps on squat. No spot, outside the rack, do or die, stopping shy of lockout, piston style like bodybuilders often do.
On Eating :
Killing buffets, not eating in the proper windows, but massive amounts of protein. Straight up chicken genocide.
On Healing/Recovery/Meditation/Prayer :
He described running through entire workouts the night before.
Visualizing an army of doctors checking his body every night, healing him at warp speed, starting at toes, and ending with his head (very similar to my healing fire visualization, same concept different imagery), while breathing in with the good out with the bad.
Visualizing his body as hydrolics, purposefully trying to move weights as powerfully as possible.
Praying “God make me the best, and I will do your work”
On Layoffs :
Went from 280 to 210lbs, 6 months in Mexico, bench went from 5×5 @ 315 to 3×5 @315. My experience says you don’t lose strength, his is in agreement.
-J
(Since this is from the archives and I didn’t link in the writing two years ago it’s these two video interviews :
Part 1 :
Part 2 :
The Gaspari channel interview is a combined and shortened version of the two from Josh Bryant’s channel.)