[Show Notes] We’re sitting down with AFROBRUTALITY founder, early CrossFit adopter, no-nonsense wisdom giver Syn Martinez. Syn’s experiences as a high-level earner and one of the early adoptees of CrossFit methodologies put him in the position to launch AFROBRUTALITY, to change his community for the better, and be a source of advice and motivation for […]
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Dan McKim: How to Create Sustained Success through Strength [Ep 17, Season 2]
[Show Notes] Dan McKim is a 5x World Champion and 6x National Champion in the Highland Games. He’s also a dad joke connoisseur and one of the funniest, strongest humans on the planet. In this episode, we talk with Dan about how he rose up the Highland Games ranks, why his training and recovery protocol […]
Dave Spitz: The Cal Strength Juggernaut & How To Create An Environment of Success [Ep 16, Season 2]
[Show Notes] Dave Spitz has been quietly engineering an entire generation of weightlifters, from the elite to the everyday. Whether he’s preparing athletes for the NFL Combine, the World Weightlifting Championships, or simply producing weightlifting WODs for CrossFit athletes, Dave has been a strong undercurrent in the strength world for years. Listen in as he […]
Bonnie Schroeder on Women’s Roles in Strength Sports + Creating More Positivity through Social Media [Ep 15, Season 2]
[Show Notes] Bonnie Schroeder is a natural 57kg USAPL powerlifter and coach with a 466 Wilks coefficient. Suffice to say, she is one strong person. Bonnie has built up a large following on instagram, which has provided her a platform to follow her own role models, inspire other athletes, and unfortunately, become the target of […]
Building Champions Through Successful Youth Programs with Kevin Doherty of Hassle Free BBC [Ep 14, Season 2]
[Show Notes] On the top of the show, Tom answers a listener’s question about whether to cut to a new weight class and why it really doesn’t matter. During the interview, Kevin Doherty of Hassle Free Barbell Club drops in to share how he built an incredibly successful, if not THE most successful youth weightlifting […]
How to Get Better: Courtney Kendal on Weightlifting, Coaching, Motherhood & More [Ep 13, Season 2]
[Show Notes] Courtney Kendal (nee Valerious) is a perennial national weightlifter, owner and coach at Dog House CrossFit in Chicago, a mom, and a former D1 athlete. Having been a lifter before the big resurgence in American weightlifting, and now a coach + CrossFit owner contributing to it, she has some incredible insight into the […]
Tougher than You: Adriane Wilson’s Journey from Cancer to World Champion [Ep 12, Season 2]
[Show Notes] In 2003, Adriane Wilson was on the edge of big things. She was poised to graduate college with a four year degree, consistently ranked in the top three or four throwers in the US, and was a favorite for the 2004 Olympic team in Greece, until she found out she had Hodgkins Lymphoma. […]
The Basics of Strength & Why So Many Get it Wrong with Dan Tennison [Ep 11, Season 2]
[Show Notes] Dan Tennison has come up quickly in the Highland Games ranks and is looking to dominate on the pro circuit this year. Listen in as he and Tom talk about the basics of strength and programing, his mentality and approach on acquiring new skills, and See if you qualify to save big on […]
MDUSA Reunion: Talking with Morghan King, James Tatum, Kaleb Whitby, Tayler Harris, Sean Rigsby & Mike Szela [Ep 10, Season 1]
[Show Notes] From June 2012 to March 2016, Glenn Pendlay assembled a group of lifters with some of the best potential in the country, and they trained full-time. It was an interesting experiment that changed the way elite-level lifters train and live today. We’re talking with some of the team, including 2016 Olympian Morghan King, […]
Barbell, Business & Badass Advice with Matt Vincent [Ep 9, Season 1]
[Show Notes] If you haven’t been following Matt Vincent, you are missing out. Matt really became a prominent figure in the strength world as a top-level Highland Games athlete, but has a background in throwing and strongman. As he traveled, often meeting with giants in the industry like Mark Bell, Adam Nelson and Kelly Starrett, […]