ATG All Things Gym Weightlifting Podcast

The final day of the competition! We chat with a local, briefly recap the final sessions, speculate on next year’s Worlds, hear Nat Arem lament the perception of doping by outsiders, and share some of our favorite lifts of the competition. Also includes some random appearances by anyone who happened to walk by during recording. Enjoy! https://the2doctors.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/2018-worlds-day-10-mixdown-1.mp3 Also on iTunes!

Possibly our most scattered episode yet! We discuss the usual happenings (including Ilyin’s trolling of the weightlifting community), have special guest Viviana Podhaiski of everyday lifters join us for a bit, and ultimately end up in the swankiest yurt I’ve ever seen. Enjoy! https://the2doctors.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/2018-worlds-day-09-mixdown-1.mp3 Also on iTunes!

Some more great casual conversations from the 2018 Worlds. To start we hear some detailed information from Nat Arem on the inner workings of hookgrip and the difficulties of shooting, editing, and sharing good weightlifting footage. Later in the day we recap the sessions, including Lydia Valentin’s (relatively) easy victory and the shenanigans of Ilya Ilyin’s competition card and the men’s 102A. Enjoy! https://the2doctors.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/2018-worlds-day-08-mixdown-1.mp3 Also on iTunes!

Today: Gregor does some curls! In addition to our usual banter, we had the pleasure of getting Maged Salama of Egypt to sit down with us for a bit. Maged coached Germany’s Matthias Steiner in the past and currently works with Meso Hassona of Qatar. There’s also the usual discussion of competition antics, competition mistakes, and recaps. Enjoy! https://the2doctors.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/2018-worlds-day-07-mixdown-2.mp3 Also in iTunes!

More in our continuing series of informal recordings from the World Championships in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. In addition to the day’s sessions and some training hall info, we discuss finally finding some good coffee AND we get some inside information from USAW’s Pedro Meloni on an upcoming rule change in the IWF regarding touching the barbell. Enjoy! https://the2doctors.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/2018-worlds-day-06-mixdown-1.mp3 Also on iTunes!

More updates from Ashgabat and the 2018 World Championships! We cover the day’s sessions (which included the *amazing* men’s 81A session), chat with the Japanese team’s Hideyuki Nagao, get some inside info on what athletes have been doing in the training hall, and otherwise fill the time with our usual banter. Enjoy! https://the2doctors.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/2018-worlds-day-05-mixdown-1.mp3 Also on iTunes!

More recordings from out and about at the 2018 World Championships! We recap the women’s 59A, Rebeka Koha’s performance, make predictions on the men’s 73A, and then (later) see how our predictions played out after the session ended. For the first part of the episode we also have Kelsey Kennedy (USAW’s Marketing & Content Manager) share some insight into Team USA’s training camp in Germany and the differences between the athlete lodging (where she is) and the Sport Hotel (where officials and media are). Enjoy! https://the2doctors.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/2018-worlds-day-04-mixdown-1.mp3 Also on iTunes!

Another series of impromptu recordings from the World Championships! There’s some wind noise early on affecting audio quality, but that’s unavoidable when you take the show out of the studio and into the world. We discuss some training hall lifts, questionable judging, the Worlds MVP spectator, and even get a visit by the director of the broadcast to talk about the challenges of covering weightlifting for a live feed. Enjoy! https://the2doctors.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/worlds-day-03-mixdown-1.mp3 Also on iTunes!

Day 2 of our special reports from Ashgabat and the 2018 World Championships! Gregor and I just brought the Zoom H1n recorder along with us and captured some impromptu conversations: a chat over breakfast, one during a midday break, and one at the end of the day. The environment can be quite noisy at times (and therefore a bit tough to here us in spots) but it gives you a sense of the atmosphere at Worlds (we hope). Special guest appearances include: Mike Choi, Mark Cannella, Sean Waxman, JP Nicoletta, and Nat Arem of hookgrip. Enjoy! https://the2doctors.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/2018-worlds-day-02.mp3 Also on iTunes!

Since Gregor (of ATG fame) and I are currently in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan to help cover the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships he thought it would be fun to do a very informal podcast recording of us chatting at the end of the day. The idea was borne of the fact that this is generally what happens at the end of the day for any competition: you sit around and talk about weightlifting, despite having just spent the past 10-12 hours watching/talking about weightlifting. Who doesn’t want more weightlifting?! So enjoy, if you like, 40-ish minutes of us, unedited, chatting about weightlifting, the city, the venue, the training hall, and anything else that comes to mind. Hopefully there will be more to come! https://the2doctors.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/worlds-2018-d01.mp3