In this episode of Chalk My Back! Abe, Anas, and Josh do a pre-meet breakdown of the athletes competing and the plan. We cover the JD vs. Josh Cortez side competition, and all the side competitions JD has with everyone else. Anas gives us a preview for what's to come with his lifters, and Abe discusses meet prep with Josh and what he's been doing to work around an injury in preparation for the meet. Josh talks about his time away from lifting and what he hopes to accomplish with this meet and future totals for the next upcoming meets. If you're one of Anas's many lifters you'll wanna tune in to this episode to see what he has to say about you. All this and more on this episode of CMB! 

In this episode of CMB! we have the legendary bench GOAT Mr. AOE J-Mike! We talk about his origin story of how he got into powerlifting and his athletic accolades in sports such as basketball, baseball, pool, and even pro skateboarding. J-Mike also gives some tips on what to do when trying to find sponsors and what to do and how to appeal to companies. We take an in depth dive into what his lifter mindset is and how he uses that to accomplish some extraordinary feats at his age and how he plans to advance within the sport of powerlifting. Jaisyn also gives us backstories to his business, his athletic career, and his life growing up and how it influenced him to be the kind of lifter he is today. Jaisyn also shares stories from his son's battle with brain cancer as well as the struggles he faced with A7intl. Jaisyn also gives us a look into what his future goals are with his clothing company and his goals within his other interest such as van life, creating a documentary, and a 900 lb pull. Also stay tuned to the full episode to get a special offer from J-Mike for being a listener of the CMB! Boys. All this and more on this episode of CMB!

On this episode of CMB! we do another QnA answering questions that you the fans posted on our IG page. We cover a plethora of topics including USAPL vs the IPF and more casual topics such as lazy Sunday and what we would be doing if we weren't powerlifting. Abe uses spider chalk exclusively for his sets, Anas would be a pro soccer player, and Josh would be a super roided weightlifter. We rapid fire questions such as Arby's, Sam's cookies, excel sheets, and Anas's internship. Neil from Boba Tea Protein said that he would sponsor the podcast so I have to include this in here so I can refer to it when he says he didn't say that (I also have screenshots). JD wants to know what happens when he puts bacon on Anas's skin, bonus points for anyone that knows the right answer (disrespectful). Abe's hype music is lame cause it embodies a combination of "Closing Time" and chill rap music, Anas has the best sad hype music lifter, Josh is the typical garbage music lifter. All this and more on this episode of Chalk My Back!

In this episode of Chalk My Back! we continue the discussion with David, we discuss how David ranks against the top in his weight class and his future and long term goals within the sport of powerlifting. We also discuss in depth what it would take for David increase his rank placing among the top of the 83kg lifters and how he plans to achieve this goal. We take a dive into David's training blueprint and how he and his coach Sean communicate to create an effective means of training to maximize recoverable load and load management from the standpoint of learn what your body can do to tolerate volume. David also covers some valuable aspects of training that many intermediate and novice lifters can learn from to improve their own training and what they can start to implement in terms of variable tracking to get the most out of training. Along the way the boys talk topics such as popeye's and arby's, gifted lifters, and how keeping up with current training improves your own training. All this and more on this episode of CMB!

In this episode of Chalk My Back! The boys catch up with long time friend David and discuss many different topics from arby's to whataburger to what it takes to run a gym which he is part owner of Progressive Overload Dallas. David and the gang also discuss what it's like to be marketable in this modern era of social media and talk about ways to get more people engaged and how to attract more of an audience. We also learn a bit of the origin story of how everyone met and what lead them to keep powerlifting throughout the years. David also provides some deeper insight into why he decided to create POD and why he has continued this pursue into becoming the best powerlifter he can be. Tune in as we release this as a two part series and continue our discussion with David more next week in regards to training and where he ranks with the top in his weight class. All this and more on this episode of CMB!

In this episode of Chalk My Back! the boys talk about what steps you should do if you want to consider self-coaching yourself. We also cover the ideas, principles, and guidelines used to help get you started into how to self coach and create a general plan to begin with. If you ever wondered how to program for your own progress then this is the episode for you. Anas covers the idea of goal setting and how goal setting can be useful in terms of self coaching and what ideas to use when applying the principles of general programming methods. Abe covers what it means to be a coach and what it means to be an athlete and how to be both at the same time and use both hats to identify good training habits. Josh covers what it means to be an athlete that coaches their own program and what to look for in terms of benchmarks in making gains. All this and more on this episode of CMB!

On this episode of Chalk My Back! we have long time friend Joey Nguyen DPT on as he talks about his time within powerlifting and his transition into weightlifting during PT school. We also discuss how Joey into lifting and how it has lead him to a career within his field and how through his journey has shaped a unique career path that gives him the ability to be the kind of physical therapist that he wants to be. The boys take a dive into what Joey would do to help strength with his background of information and his take on where the field is going and what makes him a great coach. Joey also drops knowledge on topics such as rehab, sick back pumps, how he found PT school as well as financial planning that helped him to graduate from PT school debt free. All this and more in this episode of CMB! 

In this episode of Chalk My Back! the boys do a recap of collegiate nationals going over some of the most notable lifts from their friends and some of the upcoming new lifters that are making a name for themselves in the USAPL. Josh also goes over a recent gatekeeping story that happened to him and Salma and her mom while playing badminton. Anas covers the bulk of the collegiate teams and which teams are doing the best in the sport and which Texas schools need to step it up in terms of competition. We also cover what "meme" lifting is and if it should exist in the powerlifting space? Is Anas upset that Abe keeps interrupting him during the podcast? Nah he just wants to move into Abe's new shed home gym. Abe for some reason keeps forgetting the pace of the podcast and goes backwards in topics. Josh still wants to play badminton after a "hardcore" athlete came up to him? All this and more in this episode of CMB!

In this episode we have our first guest Mikey P! Mikey is a long time friend and training partner of the CMB! gang. He is well known for being a great powerlifting coach who started his own business School of Mikey P! to start training powerlifting athletes and help lifters achieve their own goals. Mikey talks about some of the notable lifters he's coached as well as talks about his beginnings with the sport and how it has influenced him during different times of his life. We learn about how Mikey structures his training for himself and his lifters as well as talk about stories from his high school, time at Metroflex Arlington and Fort Worth, and with his college team at UT Austin. Join us in this episode as we take a deep dive into who Mikey P is and what his journey with powerlifting has lead him to become.

In this episode of Chalk My Back! the boys discuss what Anas thought of the April fools prank and if he preferred talking with your current hosts or if he wants the girls to come back and replace them. Does it really matter if Josh and Abe get recasted if no one listens to their opinion? probably. We originally wanted to talk about self coaching for the beginner lifter but then talked about something far more interesting. Gym barn? Servants... I mean employees? Lifting out in the boonies? Does Abe love his wife? (Yes he does)  Eleiko? Rogue? What do all these things have in common? We take a deep dive into what the boys really want in a "home gym" and learn who has the most financial skill and intelligence (Yes you guessed it, it's not Abe). All of this and more in this episode of CMB!