Mike Gattone | Hard Work Pays Off
Mike Gattone is proof that hard work and hustle sustained over a life-time produces incredible outcomes. Mike is the performance director and coaching educator for USAW, but has had more jobs in the b...
28 Okt 20191h 36min
Kianoush Rostami Interview
Yesterday I got to sit down with Olympic Champion Kianoush Rostami and talk about his battle with the Iranian Weightlifting Federation, his struggle for Olympic qualification, and his best ever number...
25 Okt 201914min
WL News | Rostami Crashes the Party & Lu Xiaojun Interview
As I sit in my Air BnB in Switzerland in preparation for the 49th 'Challenge 210' I see that Kianoush Rostami has flown to Switzerland, presumably with the goal of forcing his way into the competition...
23 Okt 201925min
How Bulgaria and the USSR defeated the USA | Harvey Newton
Harvey Newton coached the 1984 USA Olympic team, spent time speaking with the greatest weightlifters ever from Bulgaria and the USSR, and watched the landscape shift from no drug testing to selected d...
21 Okt 20191h 24min
An Experiment to Guarantee Lasha's 500 kg Total
If you could control for all variables, have an unlimited budget and unlimited resources, could you derive an experiment that would ensure Lasha Talakhadze to total 500 kg? In this episode, that is ex...
18 Okt 20191h 15min
WL News | Lasha's Heaviest C&J Ever, & Russia Avoiding Tests
This week we witnessed the heaviest clean and jerk of all-time from the greatest super of all-time, Lasha Talakhadze at 267 kg. Earlier this week it broke that Russia has been avoiding internal testin...
16 Okt 201927min
Gaming Qualification & Warm-Up Room Tales with JP Nicoletta
With tales from this year's World Championships all the way to stories about Krastev in the 90s, these are the episodes I live for. Discussing the nuances of which elite weightlifters may or may not m...
14 Okt 20191h 13min
From National to International Caliber | Jake Baker
Jake Baker is on the cusp of moving from being a national tier weightlifter to an international one. His career thus far epitomises hard work. With his recent move to California Strength, he hopes to ...
11 Okt 201944min
