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Tomorrow I am taking off to Montana to train for 5 days with the Legendary Weightlifting Coach Steve Gough. He has trained numerous high level athletes with his own son still holding American Records in my weight class. He has held those records for about 12 years now. He also used to

I have exactly 4 weeks of training left until I compete at the Arnold, I am getting pretty excited. You know, this journey has already been way harder than I had ever expected. I didn’t expect to leave California Strength. Or to get hurt the first week in Vegas. Or to go and do

Today was 100x better than yesterday. Jon North and I got on the same bar and really moved quick. We got the workout done in under 45 minutes. We were absolutely flying. We felt pretty sore but managed to bring some intensity and keep the duration of the workout down. PM: Power Snatch

I finally got some sense knocked into me by Steve Gough (1 of my 2 coaches) and squatted my arse off yesterday. I squatted 5 separate times yesterday (with 4 being maximal, and the other one I Had to stop because of a crazy passing out incident). Anyway, here was what it looked like:

1. Most of our athletes “Fall” into weightlifting after their other goals/dreams/hopes fail…(usually at around age 18-23, or older) 2. We are like 1/3 countries who have  strict out of competition drug testing. 3. It is not like wrestling/baseball/football where you

I took a trip up to Montana to visit Mike Karchut and Steve Gough. They are extremely well known coaches, and Steve’s son, Tom, holds the American Records in the 94kg category with a 165kg snatch, and a 205kg clean/jerk. I went up there with these #’s: Sn 143, CJ 175, FS 1