This episode I had the pleasure to have my coach on the pod to dive deep into topics of programming. We talk about how she became a coach, thoughts on other methods like Bulgarian vs Russian, usaw model, smolov and all sorts of programming!

Today is a special podcast I have my fellow teammates talk about their experience at the American Open Series II in California this past month Sep 2023.

Today's guest is the host for Better Than Yesterday Podcast. We talk about life, his story on how he started podcasting and his weightlifting journey.

This is an impromptu podcast with just me today just a life update and what's going on and also talk about some life topics of motivation, dedication and just learning how to balance weightlifting in your life.

In this Episode I get to talk with Aaron Vaughn the owner of Versed Skateshop in Carmel. Indiana. Is a skater/owner of versed skate shop in Carmel, Indiana. Born and raised in Lawerence Indiana, he is one of the pioneers to help give back to the community with his opening of his own skate shop within the past year. We also talk about how keeps a balanced healthy life with health and fitness as he hired Matt Blas to coach him with his strength and conditioning program. It is interesting hearing how Matt programs for a skateboarder and also a guy who loves to run, bike and travel. Aaron wears many hats but you get to hear his personality and super self driven, humble guy he is in this podcast!

Today's episode I got the chance to speak with Team USA's 55kg olympic weightlifter Leila Cook. Leila has been in the sport of weightlifting at the age of 15 when she did her first competition and hasn't looked back. In this episode we talk about her background on how she became basically a science project on herself through trail and error lifting alone for the majority of her career to her education and experience at ASU with the sports performance side of her coaching and kinesiology experience. I think you'll find out more about Leila in this episode about her calculated mindset, her intelligence and also more of her fun side that her personality shines through in this podcast!

Today's episode I had the pleasure to interview Josh Gibson. Josh is a weightlifting coach, an author and podcaster of his own called Philosophical Weightlifting Podcast. He's currently going back to school to earn his PHD and has a lot of exciting news to come for the future. He's usually the one interviewing so it was nice to hear his personal journey and how he became one of the more successful people in this sport as a whole.

This weeks episode I got the pleasure to talk to one of my friends Andrew Stegelmann. He runs his own weightlifting team called Stegelmann Performance based out of Tennessee. Andrew is a Physical Therapist and competitive weightlifter and we talk about programming, rehab, business and other fun topics.