Jeremy Buendia's Off The Chain Training

“I WOKE UP EVERY MORNING TO THE SOUND OF WEIGHTS CLANGING TOGETHER,” RECALLS JEREMY BUENDIA OF HIS CHILDHOOD. The noise emanating from the basement of the Buendia residence in San Jose, CA, was Jeremy’s father, Louie, a dedicated lifter in his own right who passed the love of iron on to his son. “I watched my dad weight train ever since I could remember,” Buendia says. “He raised me to be an athlete, and he started training me at the age of 6 doing various sp