StrongAndAthletic: Olympic Weightlifting | Track & Field | Methods & Principles of The Eastern Bloc Training System

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast! Today’s guest is Sachin Mcdonell a strength and conditioning coach based in Seattle. Sachin holds a Bachelor in Exercise Science and is CSCS-NSCA certified, RPR level 2 certified and KI-master. He is the owner of 5sAthletics and he also trains athletes at Max’s strength […]

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast! Today I’m back again with my friend Jalen Shabazz aka Quicktempa. This is his second appearance in my podcast and today we discuss the reforms that Olympic Weightlifting is undergoing before the 2020 Olympics as well as what is happening in the 2019 IWF […]

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast! Today is a special interview that I did with Omed Alam’s coach straight from the gym where Omed Alam’s train, in Hillarod (Denmark). Maciej, a Polish born, is a physical education teacher that was recruited by the legendary Olympic weightlifter Zygmunt Smalcerz to help […]

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast. Today my guest is Aaron Horschig the founder and owner of Squat University. In today’s podcast, we talk about...

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast. Today my guest is Aaron Horschig the founder and owner of Squat University. In today’s podcast, we talk about Aaron’s career in Olympic weightlifting and what led him to become a physiotherapist. Moreover, we discuss his approaches to postural assessment and imbalances, the common […]

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast! Today my guest is my friend Omed Alam and this is his second time with me in the podcast....

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast! Today my guest is my friend Omed Alam and this is his second time with me in the podcast. In today’s episode, we talk about the training camp he undertook in Ukraine with the Latvian team and his preparation for the 2019 European weightlifting […]

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast! Today my guest is the rising weightlifting superstar Vadim Kozevnikovs from Latvia. Vadim is a member of the Latvian...

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast! Today my guest is the rising weightlifting superstar Vadim Kozevnikovs from Latvia. Vadim is a member of the Latvian Olympic weightlifting team and he recently won the bronze medal in the clean and jerk at the 2019 European weightlifting championship in the 96kg class. […]

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast. Today’s guest is my friend Jalen Shabazz aka “quicktempa”. Jalen has been involved in multiple sports from a young...

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast. Today’s guest is my friend Jalen Shabazz aka “quicktempa”. Jalen has been involved in multiple sports from a young age, mainly track and field and basketball. Initially intending to lift weight just to get stronger, Jalen transitioned gradually to Olympic weightlifting during the last […]

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast. Today’s guest is the Danish Olympic weightlifting rising star Omed Alam. Omed has been involved in sports from a young age. He fell...

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast. Today’s guest is the Danish Olympic weightlifting rising star Omed Alam. Omed has been involved in sports from a young age. He fell in love with Olympic weightlifting at the young age of 9 years old which led him to try and attempt attending weightlifting classes daily. This […]

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast!  Today’s guest is Julian Hubbard originally from Maine, United States. Julian has been doing track and field from a young age. He specialized in the triple jump and competed in the NCAA Division 1 where he hit many Personal bests. Julian recently moved to […]

Hey, guys welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast. Today’s guest you guys already know him, is none but my friend Phil Gauthier, a Doctor of physical therapy, a strength and conditioning coach located in Boston, Massachusetts, and co-owner of Element_26 athletic gear company. This is the second time I invite […]

Welcome back to a new episode of the strong and athletic podcast. This is the first part of a two-part series interview with Olympic Weightlifting coach Steve Tikkanen and one of his athletes Cayle Horder, from Australia. Steve holds a bachelor of sports science and has over 25 years of experience coaching Olympic Weightlifting. He […]

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast. Today’s episode is a very special one where I interview legendary coach Dan Pfaff. In Canada, Dan is known for being the former coach of Olympic gold medalist, world champion gold medalists and former world records holders in the 100m, Donovan Bailey, and Bruny […]

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast! Today’s guest is my friend Troy Doris who is an elite triple jumper.  Troy got involved in sports at a young age and he got introduced to track and field, more specifically the triple jump event, thru his brothers. Originally from Guyana Troy was […]

welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast! Today’s guest is my friend Phil Gauthier, he is a physical therapist and strength and conditioning coach located in Boston, Massachusetts. Phil has been involved in sports from a young age. He played football and participated in many powerlifting meets. After graduating from university, […]

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast!  Today’s episode is with Darren Barrens an American Olympic Weightlifter who represented team USA many times at the international stage in the 56kg Category. Darren started Olympic weightlifting under his brother Derick and broke all the American records of each age class in his […]

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast! Today’s guest is my Friend Ernest Prempeh known as Spiffy or JackedHippie. An ex-marine corps, Ernest now is an Olympic Weightlifter that compete for Ghanaa. He lives in new jersey and owns Incessant Strength and Weightlifting where he is a strength and conditioning coach and […]

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast. Today’s guest is my man Forrester cris Osei a former American football player and now a professional Olympic weightlifter under Ghanaian National Team. Cris is also a strength coach and lives and train in London, England under his coach Morgan. Cris had a successful transition […]

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast! Today’s guest is my friend Mark Nehme. Mark is the Olympic Weightlifting coach of the Montreal Olympic weightlifting club located at Claude-Robillard sports complex in Montreal Quebec. Mark started his career in Olympic Weightlifting as an athlete around the age of 15 years old […]

Welcome back to another episode of the strong and athletic podcast! In today’s episode, we welcome back Dennis Barrett. If you remember, Dennis was my guest in episode number two where we discussed the current situation of track and field in Canada and the implementation of Olympic weightlifting training for track athletes. Dennis like I […]

What is the state of the current Canadian medical system? Does it fulfill the needs of our athletes and provide them with enough support? To discuss that I invited a special guest to the podcast. His name is Joshua Levin and he is a doctor currently working in the Manitoba province. Josh and I got […]

Canadian Olympic weightlifting has been in decay for many many years. In this episode, I interview Alexandros Kouvakas, a good friend of mine and a professional Greek-Canadian Olympic weightlifter, about the current state of weightlifting in Canada and Greece.

Canadian track and field have not been doing very well from the 80's and till now the current situation of track in field in Canada still has not improved. In this episode, I interviewed Dennis Barrett who is the current track and field and cross country head coach of Mcgill University.

It' here finally! The first session of The Strong and Athletic Podcast!