Trade Life by Point Load Media
Jul 3, 2026 · 48 min · 11 segments
Tonight, Ian runs 135 kilometers through the night up the coast past Quebec City - a projected 30 hours on his feet, with his wife Leanne doing a 50K in the same ultra. In this episode, Michael gets…
I first started going to the gym when I was like 14 or 15 and kind of half-assed my way around the gym and then eventually got into powerlifting later.
When I was at Western, University of Western Ontario, I met my, who would become, later on become my best man and still one of my best friends, Tom, lives out in BC.
Me and him took up powerlifting together because we realized we were both meat sauces and just loved lifting heavy weights and drinking beer and eating pizza.
So we devoted our lives to that for a couple years, accomplished literally nothing other than working out a lot.
Um, I was a, I was a middling power lifter at best, actually a pretty good dead lifter, but I kind of sucked at bench and squat, which, which made me a middling power lifter.
So for those that don't know, power lifting is, um, it's literally bench press, uh, back squat and deadlift.
So like, you'll see a lot of people at the, at the gym benching and like the bar doesn't touch their chest or it bounces or their butt comes off the bench.
Um, so in competition you do, it's three attempts at squat, three attempts at bench, three attempts at deadlift in that order.
The three attempts are to get your heaviest single and It's what's called an ascending bar, which means once you add weight to it for yourself, if you fail that way, you can't take weight off.
I first started going to the gym when I was like 14 or 15 and kind of half-assed my way around the gym and then eventually got into powerlifting later.
When I was at Western, University of Western Ontario, I met my, who would become, later on become my best man and still one of my best friends, Tom, lives out in BC.
Me and him took up powerlifting together because we realized we were both meat sauces and just loved lifting heavy weights and drinking beer and eating pizza.
So we devoted our lives to that for a couple years, accomplished literally nothing other than working out a lot.
Um, I was a, I was a middling power lifter at best, actually a pretty good dead lifter, but I kind of sucked at bench and squat, which, which made me a middling power lifter.
So for those that don't know, power lifting is, um, it's literally bench press, uh, back squat and deadlift.
So like, you'll see a lot of people at the, at the gym benching and like the bar doesn't touch their chest or it bounces or their butt comes off the bench.
Um, so in competition you do, it's three attempts at squat, three attempts at bench, three attempts at deadlift in that order.
The three attempts are to get your heaviest single and It's what's called an ascending bar, which means once you add weight to it for yourself, if you fail that way, you can't take weight off.
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