Comfort Kills Growth With Trevor Jaffe

In this episode I sit down w Trevor Jaffe: competitive strength athlete in strongman and powerlifting with a primary focus in powerlifting. As a coach, Trevor has coached over 29 all-time world records through 8 different athletes and currently holds the masters ATWR total in the 181 class, affectionately known as “the deadlift whisperer.” The day before recording this episode, Trevor put on a great seminar at The TOP Strength Project. I personally saw it as an extremely valuable experience being able to take a ton of valuable strategies that I was able to implement right away. He is an outstanding couch and invaluable resource to anyone in the pursuit of strength. We talk about our own journeys and experience through strength, working with some of the biggest names in the industry, mindset, injuries, training natural vs enhanced, humility, cold exposure…. And dozens of other topics.

GREAT eposide. I hope you guys enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed putting it

together.

Thanks guys!

Trevor Jaffe

Top Strength Project 

Steve Tripp

Trevor Jaffe Show Notes

00:50 Westside Barbell Experience

01:40 Trevor’s Seminar at The TOP Strength Project

02:20 Accumobility Seminar/ Ski Crash

04:30 Old Man Injuries

08:10 Learning as a Coach

13:50 FRONT SQUATS!!!

15:30 Charlie P

17:27 Changing Training Strategies Based on Training Age/ Ability

19:24 24-32 Rule

21:50 Strength Work is Skill Work

23:15 Discipline While Peaking for a Meet

24:45 How I First Became Interested In Powerlifting

27:15 321 Peak

28:10 Neurological Fatigue vs Tissue Fatigue

28:20 Enhanced Athletes Recovery vs Natural

35:48 Trevor’s “Origin Story”

36:00 WTF Happened to Pro Wrestling?!

47:00 Lessons in Humility

51:30 Competing Against Time

53:50 Aggressive Patience

54:15 Strength Athlete Year Round

55:50 Do We Get “Stronger” When We Hit a PR?

57:20 Paying Yourself First

1:01:45 “The Difference Maker isn’t Age, It’s Responsibility”

1:02:50 Tim Ferris’s “Four Hour Work Week”

1:04:40 Cold Exposure

1:07:45 Anabolic Window/ Static Stretching

1:11:20 Working w Hypermobility

1:12:30 The Majority of the Process is Found in the Gray Area

1:14:29 Think About One Thing At a Time

1:15:05 “Sell Them What They Want But Give Them What They Need”

1:19:05 Psychological Associations w Somatotypes?

1:23:30 Comfort Kills Growth

1:26:40 Collaborations with Ocean State Crossfit

1:29:45 Interference Effect Myth

1:33:00 The Ceiling of Training Only Sagittal Plane

1:34:00 Closing