#412 How Westside Training Saved Me From 4 Years of Cancer | Kalil Sherrod

One heavy squat at 400 lbs was the only signal Kalil Sherrod needed to know the poison hadn't won yet. Seven weeks before recording this episode, Kalil walked into elitefts HQ to hit his first heavy milestone since a grueling cancer diagnosis—a moment that bridged the gap between his life as an elite performance coach and his reality as a survivor. Through two stem cell transplants and rounds of high-intensity chemo, he has refined a conjugate-based survival blueprint that proves muscle mass is the ultimate insurance policy for the human immune system.

INSIDE THE EPISODE:

• The 93% Rule: Why maintaining a high performance floor is more critical than chasing a ceiling during a competitive season.

• Conjugate for the Court: How to apply Westside methodology to basketball players without sacrificing their vertical or shooting touch.

• Training Through the Storm: The specific adjustments Kalil made to his training split while undergoing "ICE" chemotherapy to preserve lean tissue.

• The Youth Developmental Gap: Why the loss of traditional PE and martial arts is creating a generation of fragile athletes and how to fix it.

• The IV Protocol: A critical, overlooked hydration tip for anyone navigating medical treatments that often gets ignored by hospital staff.

MEET THE GUEST:

Kalil Sherrod is a high-performance coach, author, and the founder of Revenants Coaching. A former DII basketball player, he currently serves as the Sports Performance Coach for the Thailand Titans professional basketball organization and coaches at The Spot Athletics. Kalil is the author of The Basketball Player's Training Guide and co-author of the elitefts eBook Mastering Conjugate Programming for Athletes. After surviving Hodgkin's Lymphoma, he has dedicated his work to helping athletes and fellow survivors use strength as a tool for radical resilience.

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