#026 - Sonny Webster - From Zero To Rio: A Life's Journey To The Olympic Games
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2018
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
Sonny Webster is an Olympic Weightlifter who represented Great Britain at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
Sonny is one of the best known names in the world of strength and fitness in the UK. But before the hundreds of thousands of followers and seminar tours all over the world, he had to learn his craft. Today we get to hear his story.
From overcoming massive injuries as a child to leaving home at 16, having qualifying day catastrophes and no money to eat to walking out at the Olympic Opening Ceremony next to Andy Murray, we get to learn about his entire journey. Discover his pre-lift routine, his thoughts on CrossFit in the lifting community and why he's endangering his life with a barbell almost daily in videos on Instagram.
This will be the first of many podcasts as there is a lot to go into about Sonny's career and mindset, but for now, enjoy Chapter #1.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, Sunni Webster, Olympic Weightlifter and General All-Round Big Dick on Instagram |
| 0:08.5 | has joined me for a discussion about his career. |
| 0:12.2 | We did this before we went on a night out in Newcastle and I think the night out is probably |
| 0:17.7 | worthy of a podcast as well. |
| 0:20.8 | But today we're going to find out exactly how Sunni got into the sport of weightlifting, |
| 0:27.4 | his entire journey from starting at school right through up until he walked out at the |
| 0:35.6 | Olympic opening ceremony next to Andy Murray holding a tiny little flag. |
| 0:41.3 | So I absolutely love this episode. |
| 0:45.6 | The storytelling and the narrative of Sunni's career from when he started up until when |
| 0:50.7 | he decided to leave home at the, basically at the protest of his dad to go and live on |
| 0:55.4 | his mate's university halls of residence floor because that was where he needed to go because |
| 1:00.4 | he wanted to lift. |
| 1:02.1 | It's an incredibly grounding story and it provides a lot of perspective I think that we |
| 1:05.7 | can apply to our own lives. |
| 1:08.0 | And on top of that it's just fucking cool. |
| 1:11.4 | We get to find out what the kit selection process for the Olympics is like. |
| 1:15.6 | What it felt like to walk out at the opening ceremony. |
| 1:19.2 | What it feels like as you're warming up backstage before you go out to make a lift on the |
| 1:24.0 | biggest stage in the world. |
| 1:27.5 | It's a really, really interesting story. |
| 1:31.4 | The plan will be to have Sunni back. |
| 1:33.7 | We got up to the Olympics in super detail and then it was two hours deep. |
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