Gregory Ray joins Ted O'Neill and Jon Leon Guerrero to discuss training days, good and bad. They talk about approaching your training progress and the importance of understanding contrast. Greg also fills us in about a tremendous weekend.

A summary explanation of Ted O'Neill's Paraphysical Training approach. How do you identify an elite powerlifter in the making? How does an athlete accelerate his or her maximum performance? It's in the demonstration of mastery.

Ted discusses optimizing your lifts by maximizing the efficiency of your approach. By decluttering and ritualizing your approach, your positions, and your mechanics, you allow the maximum energy for the task. That factor could mean the difference between making a lift and failing.

To call Diablo Barbell a gym does not begin to scratch the surface. But is it a gathering place or is it defined by the gathered? And with so many disparate missions, can we call it a collective?