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Sep 23, 2026
Krista Sandford-HillHOST
And my frustration point a week and a half ago was I can hit the ball most of the time, but I could not tell you where it's going to go.
Krista Sandford-HillHOST
And I remember that when I went into Olympic lifting.
Krista Sandford-HillHOST
I could snatch the barbell, but I couldn't tell you when I was going to snatch the barbell and when I would fail.
Krista Sandford-HillHOST
And it caught me out when I went to do a competition.
Krista Sandford-HillHOST
I think it was my very first Olympic lifting competition.
Krista Sandford-HillHOST
You get three lifts and you're endeavoring to get your max lift over those three lifts.
Krista Sandford-HillHOST
It's only three.
James BurkHOST
I kind of – I was just – I don't have VBT now, but I was just getting down the rabbit hole of average velocity versus peak velocity.
James BurkHOST
I had Dr. Eric Cash, Joe Ken, their buddies, and they talked more peak velocity, which I just used for Olympic lifts, so I didn't
Brant BaileyGUEST
–
James BurkHOST
I didn't get to see it in action, but – Are you just using average velocity pretty
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Brant BaileyGUEST
That's all.
James BurkHOST
Oh, because that's another thing.
James BurkHOST
uh coach jones who was at arkansas state he was one of the first guys i reached out to because he didn't do olympic lifts and i'm like hey i can't ever poo-poo on people that don't i need to understand why don't they you know i mean he's a
Brant BaileyGUEST
great coach so he had a power complex
Anthony RennaHOST
I want to talk about the agility.
Anthony RennaHOST
Where is it gone now? And then obviously Olympic lifting had its own section in there as well.
Anthony RennaHOST
Talk about where those two have kind of gone.
Mike BoyleGUEST
Agility, it's funny.
Mike BoyleGUEST
So for us, agility, I would say, in a lot of ways, gone, right? That's just the way that it is.
Mike BoyleGUEST
But when we think about speed development, I would think about that totally differently, right? Because I think developing the ability, the actual physical ability to run in a straight line faster always matters.
Mike BoyleGUEST
And then you go to the Olympic lifting thing.
Mike BoyleGUEST
And I think up until four or five years ago, and it was Devin McConnell first introduced me to the thought of trap bar jumping.
Rachel ConawayGUEST
So that's what the sport of weightlifting is.
MarkHOST
The Olympic lifts are one rep, which is usually the bench press, one rep, one rep, and the deadlift.
Rachel ConawayGUEST
That is powerlifting, which it's conflated most of the time because most people have not heard of Olympic weightlifting.
MarkHOST
Oh, you're talking about where you do the dumbbells on the ground.
MarkHOST
Yeah.
Rachel ConawayGUEST
right.
Rachel ConawayGUEST
Yes, there are incredible fails and things that you see people doing, but it's still such a fun sport to watch and it is in the Olympics.
Rachel ConawayGUEST
So you've seen Olympic weightlifting, they wear the knee sleeves and they get up on stage and it looks really cool in the Olympics.
Audrey HelleGUEST
But, and then...
Audrey HelleGUEST
Alterophile.
Audrey HelleGUEST
Do you know that? Crossfit.
Audrey HelleGUEST
Alterophile.
Audrey HelleGUEST
I love that.
Audrey HelleGUEST
I think I love when I can shoot skin.
Abby McDonaldGUEST
I just got married, so I was Abby Raymond for my whole life up until a couple months ago.
Abby McDonaldGUEST
I competed in Olympic weightlifting for the past 10 years of my life.
Abby McDonaldGUEST
And before that, I grew up doing gymnastics.
Abby McDonaldGUEST
And gymnastics eventually led me to watching the TV show American Ninja Warrior.
Abby McDonaldGUEST
But what I loved about it the most was using a barbell.
Abby McDonaldGUEST
I really loved all the weightlifting that came with CrossFit and was not as much of a fan of the cardio part.
Abby McDonaldGUEST
As I was doing CrossFit to get stronger for a year, I ended up completely falling in love with Olympic weightlifting.
Abby McDonaldGUEST
So when I was 12, I ended up deciding to pursue that full-time and started competing in weightlifting.
Carlos VasquezHOST
He's the director of Aleko Education.
Carlos VasquezHOST
And today we're going to be talking about powerlifting, Olympic lifting, and a whole lot more.
Carlos VasquezHOST
So I can't wait to talk to him about this.
Carlos VasquezHOST
He's got an MS in biomechanics from the California State University, Chico.
Carlos VasquezHOST
But if you don't, you should definitely look them up.
Carlos VasquezHOST
It's a highly reputable company in the world of personal training and strength and conditioning coaches.
Carlos VasquezHOST
So today we're going to be talking, again, as I mentioned, about Olympic lifting.
Carlos VasquezHOST
This is just for athletes.