Weakly Weights

028 - JP Cauchi on coaching international competitors and competitive mindset

John Paul Cauchi joins the boys to talk about coaching internationally and the attributes of successful competitors and coaches. He dives into his personal mindset around competition and hard attempts, and shares some anecdotes about competition. Billie Asprey interjects. JP and Billie (nearly) drop the hottest diss track of 2018. 

027 - Powerlifting Australia National Championships Recap

The boys sit down and recap Powerlifting Australia's National Championships. We go over the battles in each class, talk about some exciting moments, and important lifts. Chrissy Dask makes a guest appearance to give an insight into her competition and help answer some questions that were sent to us.

026 - Brett Gibbs on his competitive career and the IPF/WP controversy in NZ

2x IPF Open World Champion, Brett Gibbs, joins the boys to talk about how he began powerlifting, his transition to raw lifting and his experiences at 4 Open World Championships. We also discuss recent events in New Zealand, where a motion to affiliate the largest national body with World Powerlifting recently failed, and what the emergence of a new global federation means for top level competitors. 

025 - Jacob Schepis on under-appreciated principles of hypertrophy training

In part 2 of our chat with Jacob Schepis, we dicuss how modifications to exercise selection and execution can assist in hypertrophy. We also tackle the ways in which we ought to consider structuring and progressing training to get jacked up.

024 - Jacob Schepis on evidence based practice

Jacob Schepis joins the boys to talk about ongoing education for personal training, discuss what critical thinking is and the ways in which we can go about learning things to apply to our clients, and become better practitioners. 

023 - Yani Zhao on overcoming cancer

Yani Zhao, one of Australia's best ever powerlifters, joins the boys to tell the story of her fight against cancer and what it meant for her as an athlete and a person. 

022 - Fixing the Deadlift

The boys go through the deadlift - issues in the setup, bracing and execution of the lift, discuss the role of muscular limitations, effective training structures and exercise variations. They also discuss who the greatest non-powerlifter is, why sumo is cheating, and respond to feedback from prior episodes. 

021 - Greg Nuckols on the relationship between muscle mass and strength, hypertrophy vs strength training, and genetic potential

Greg joins the boys to discuss how much muscle mass contributes to maximal strength and other structural factors that influence the force output of our muscles. We chat about the overlap between training for size and strength. Finally, we cover the concept of genetic potential, whether we can predict it for an individual and how likely we are to have seen the limits of performance. 

020 - Fixing the Bench Press

The boys sit down and go through the essentials of a good bench press, talk about what technical breakdown looks like at each point in the movement, and chat about exercise and programming strategies that could be of use to you. Lots of air-benching in this episode. Alex makes his singing debut in the outro.

019 - Nathan Baxter on Bench Press and Life After Lifting

Australia's greatest ever bench presser joins the boys for a discussion on the powerlifting community in Aus, how the sport has changed and his philosophy on training. We also discuss how his health problems have changed his involvement in the sport.