In the 36th episode of the THIRST For More Podcast, Brandon sits down with Jim Jarvis of Jarvis Performance. They discuss how Jim got involved with strength and conditioning, training for the hockey population, as well as his route into multi-ply powerlifting. Jim uses ideas from the conjugate system to develop his athletes, and they discuss how he goes about that with that particular subset of athletes and how that sport culture is compared to other sports in the US.

In high school Jim played football, hockey, and baseball until his senior year, then focused on hockey and baseball. He went to UW-Eau Claire for his first two years where he played hockey, and then transferred to University of Minnesota-Duluth. He got into strength and conditioning after taking an exercise physiology class while interning at UMD for two years. After graduating he worked at a private gym in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho for a year before moving back to Minnesota, eventually going to coach at the University Minnesota, Morris. After two years at Morris, he moved on to Northern State University. After completing his masters degree and coaching at Northern State he spent a short time at the University of Minnesota, before accepting the Head Strength and Conditioning position at Carleton College. After four years at Carleton he started Body By Jarvis, which then transformed into Jarvis Performance.

He has competed in both Olympic Weightlifting and Powerlifting. Having competed in Weightlifting from 2007-2009 and having competed in Powerlifting since 2012. He is currently competing in multi-ply after having competed Raw for his first nine years.

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