Guys like Wendler or Tate or a number of established guys pretty much establish their training philosophy early on which will only very slightly over time…
I’m don’t remember where he said it but Jim’s commented on how certain guys in the field that won’t plant a flag .
Whats popular this week that I can write an article about?
Who can I publicly disagree with to get attention?
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Yep.
The Greg Nuckols thing was truly embarrassing, but I’ll switch up gears and say that Paul opened my eyes towards low volume training - even though I’ve come back around a bit since then, I learnt about gauging effort properly. He also gave out the advice that helped me properly activate my lats in a lot of exercises where I wasn’t doing it, stopped me pinning my shoulders back and down on pressing exercises, stopped me locking my elbows in on skullcrushers, and a few other things that have really helped me - and I’ve never paid him a penny.
CT’s a way better businessman, but I’ve learnt way more from Paul than I have from CT. As I’ve said elsewhere, the “shut up and listen” attitude requires a LOT of unquestionable accomplishments for me to brush it off.
There’s a lot of bigger and stronger guys out there that are far nicer. Outside of the squat, Paul isn’t that much stronger than most of the Gymshark crew.
There’s been members on here with strength levels equal or more on here.
Most humble guy and successful lifter I have meet. Ed Coan
I wish I could meet Ed when he’s coked out.
Never saw that thread, lol. Fat Greg…Paul comes off like a child.
That said, I have to reiterate this:
Paul is pretty accomplished, big total (not the biggest) and never wore a belt all while always making sure he could do more than three lifts. He also coached champs. I’d say he is one of, if not the best fitness guys in terms of writing about life away from the gym.
Paul’s issue is that he never understood that most people engaging him online are not his clients, have no interest in being his clients and are looking for drama to cover up for their own issues. Zero interest in a civil conversation
He would have been better blocking idiots but instead, he tried to argue his points. He tried the CT model of everyone might be a client one day which you need to be a saint for and Paul ain’t no Saint.
After a decade of this stuff, it sent him batty and unable to engage normally in a debate IMO.
What champ?
He coached Pete Rubish I think. Pete was pretty well established before this mind you
Pete Rubish and Marshal Johnson (don’t think Marshall won a big contest looking back at his record).
Paul himself held American records I believe but need to double check.
My thing that gets under my skin is that people kind of overlook online that for every Paul there are coaches out there just as qualified and just as accomplished if not more. That haven’t whored themselves online making a name for themselves. So most have no idea who these other indviduals are.
Yeah … that’s the rub isn’t it. The pre-established part.
Can’t deny he got them stronger though. Much, much harder to get someone from 1500 to 1700 than 1000 to 1500
On a side note, just went to see what he’s upto now and he had his Instagram account banned for violating community standards a few months ago before restoring it a few weeks ago 
I just read the Greg Nuckols thread. Once Paul was done calling Greg “fat”, and Greg actually showed up, I did think they had a reasonable debate. A very different impression than I got from the other thread
Oh yes, the Trump technique.
Lyin’ Ted, Crooked Hillary…Fat Greg.
Yeah dude, but doesn’t that make it worse? If you’re shit talking somebody behind their back over and over and the SECOND they show up, you stop the shit talking altogether and start the “ah, I see your point” talk, that’s cowardice, not being reasonable. It wasn’t just once - it was just “Fat Greg” over and over again, shitting on everything he said and his personal character until he pops in and then boom a 180 just like that.
I was bullied in middle school, and was at a party years later in my early 20s, and one of my old bullies showed up, heard I was at the party and, without realizing I could hear him, said something along the lines of “I should kick his ass”, so I tapped him on the shoulder and invited him to try. He was a real “cool” guy after that, but that’s not who he actually is, he’s still that bully, he just made the CRAZY gamble of assuming that someone who was scrawny at 13 years old will be the same way 10 years later, haha.
Just because he didn’t call him “Fat Greg” directly to him once he arrived, doesn’t mean it wasn’t part of the context.