ATG All Things Gym Weightlifting Podcast

Nat and Gregor check in with a HUGE three-hour update from the Asian Championships in Ningbo, China. Topics include:

• their police interview!
• Recapping the 109kg session with Akbar Djuraev 6/6 with Junior World Records and Ali Hashemi’s 225kg.
• video reviews in weightlifting (first implemented in Las Vegas at Youth Worlds)
• Women’s 87kg with Wang Zhouyu’s dominance and the implications for Zhang Wangli’s chances of making the Chinese Olympic team
• the price of iPhones in China
• The Ararefugee Games Platform
• a lengthy discussion on weightlifting platforms, cost of having an elevated platform
• the Porsche 919 EVO Hybrid record lap time for the Nordschleife
• Nat’s experience at USAW competitions
• Team USA’s great performance at Pan Ams
• Hookgrip’s vs ATG’s Instagram ability to grow on instagram (with Germany being so anti social media)
• Nat’s criteria for posting lifts on hookgrip’s instagram (drugged vs non-drugged lifters)
• Thoughts on the upcoming Super Session!

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Weightlifting and Chinese banking experts Nat and Gregor check in with more shenanigans from the Asian Championships in Ningbo, China. After a discussion of a police visit to the hotel room the weightlifting content starts at about minute 30. Enjoy!

Weightlifting talk starts at 30 minutes

• Before that we talk about having police visit us in our hotel room
• what were exciting sessions so far
• women’s 76kg session with Zhang Wangli and Rim Jong Sim
• THE key to Chinese weightlifting success
• Pan Ams: Kate Nye vs Mattie Rogers

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Nat and Gregor check in from the Asian Championships in Ningbo, China. Topics include:

• a lengthy treaty on the Chinese banking system and trying to exchange 100USD
• opening a Chinese bank account!
• weightlifting talk (starting around minute 32)
• a recap of the Men’s 96 session: Meso vs Tian Tao, Meso 174 and his bomb out, Tian Tao and his 181 and 231 miss
• Gregor is put on the spot with weightlifting trivia
• highest snatch and clean & jerk over bodyweight
• short discussion of the best ever male Chinese lifter
• Arafura Games (a potential chance for Godelli and Co to still earn Olympic qualification points)

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Nat and Gregor check in with more updates! Highlights include:

• Deng Wei and Toshiki Session recap
• Meso vs Tian Tao
• Ilya’s comeback
• ATG shirts back in stock soon
• Working on the Hookgrip store
• Zhang Wangli vs Rim Jong Sim
• Acquiring weightlifting memorabilia on trips

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The second update from Ningbo, China, and the 2019 Asian Championships. Topics covered include a recap of the previous day’s sessions, the upcoming sessions (M81 and W59), Chinese Olympic qualification potential, what a sport is (and isn’t), and how to fix the CrossFit Games. Enjoy!

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Nat (Hookgrip guy) and Gregor (ATG guy) report on what’s happening at the Asian Championships in Ningbo, China. Check out a great discussion of what the media situation is like in China and (just as important) what the food situation is. Enjoy!

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Another update from Taiwan! Enjoy some rambling musings about the drive back from Taitung City to Kaohsiung, our interview with Coach Lin, and the training hall here.

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Greetings from Taiwan! In this short episode, Gregor (of ATG) and I update you on our current trip to visit Kuo Hsing-Chun and her coach. We go over what we’ve done and seen (and eaten) so far, from Taipei to Kaohsiung to Taitung. Enjoy!

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Nat Arem, Mike Choi, Ethan Sigmon, and I sat down for some Thai food and recapped the first couple days of the American Open Finals out in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Enjoy the banter and the ambiance!

https://the2doctors.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/2018-ao-finals-mixdown-1.mp3

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Now that we’ve all settled in post-World Championships we got together (online) for a little more podcasting. I’m joined by Gregor, Sean Waxman, JP Nicoletta, Mark Cannella, Mike Choi, and Dr Westbrook. We go over our memories of the Worlds and generally just ramble, as is our habit. Enjoy!

https://the2doctors.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/2018-worlds-post-recap_01.mp3

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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