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Once the emotional response to names like Mark Rippetoe and Louie Simmons have passed then we can have a real conversation about the low bar and the high bar. No single exercise is inherently a bad exercise. All exercises have their place in training. Whether that place is in your programming is another question, but at least weigh up the pros and cons of this divisive movement first.

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This week we have Ivan Chakarov, the inventor of the 'No No No Squat', and Blagoy Blagoev, the greatest snatcher of all time! These 90kg Bulgarians ruled the middle weight classes for almost the entirety of the 80s...

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Half way through this week's episode I just had to take a break to talk about the recent consensus amongst the weightlifting community that the Rostami - Moradi battle is a forgone conclusion by way of Moradi. This is careless thinking. I am not saying that Rostami will win, but the guy is being criminally misremembered in my opinion.
Also this week Polovnikov deadlifts 370kg, Kaiser Witte blows my mind, and much much more...

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I sat down with two academics (a writer and an artist) who write and create professionally alongside lecturing. What started off as a basic description of weightlifting developed into a deeper search for the underlying desire to lift weights, and also the many similarities between their search for perfection in writing and art, and mine in lifting weights.

'He who has a why can bear almost any how.' - Nietzsche

I hope that you all find this particular episode as interesting and inspiring as I did.

You can find out more about these two at the social media links provided below.
Jess Ostrowicz - Instagram - @jessica.ostrowicz (https://bit.ly/2nvDP70)
Matthew Turner - Twitter - @MJTurner_ (https://bit.ly/2P91Q0q)

Leonid Taranenko is known as the strongest weightlifter of all time and for many, the strongest man of all time. Why? For putting the most above head. But the story behind how he clean and jerked more than any man ever, and the money involved, is also very interesting.
Alexander Gunyashev also features in this episode as possibly the least known athlete in the top 15 highest Sinclairs ever.
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The worlds best lifters delivered again this week from competition, training halls, and garage gyms. From world record snatches to some of the heaviest muscle snatches of all time.

As we sat in McDonalds the questions from our Instagram Q&A flew in. So, Glenn and I decided to answer them all on the podcast. This led to great discussions and gave us a feel for what you all want to know. This turned out to be a terrific episode and hopefully in time a staple of the show!
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Glenn is in the UK! We had a tremendous discussion which opened my eyes to the mechanisms behind a few well known yet poorly understood weightlifting concepts. The first is the reasons behind pulling from different positions. We all know that it helps strengthen that area, but why? The second was on the double knee bend, the reasons for it, and why some lifters actually don't need it! This is a hall of fame episode.
The discussion of the first topic starts 15m 12s in. Enjoy!

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Rostami's progress is looking to provide a terrific show-down with Sohrab as we work our way through the quad towards 2020. Big lifts were hit this week from every continent, making for a particularly exciting week.

You can make a strong case that Kakhi Kakhiashvili is the greatest weightlifter ever. No one won more Olympics than him... He set world records in multiple classes and in each lift... He has won just about as many international championships as any... And as you will learn, he was held back by the great Vasiliy Alekseyev.
Also this week we have the super-heavy Jaber Saeed Salem, a lifter who is almost unchallenged in the 120kg bodyweight range.