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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1075: Dr. Stefanie Cohen - From Venezuelan National Soccer Team to 4X Bodyweight Deadlift & 22 World Records

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Dr. Stefanie Cohen

  • Her humble beginnings and how she came to the US. (3:33)
  • How in some degree we are forced to rise to the occasion: Her journey to what she is currently doing. (6:27)
  • When did the switch from soccer to powerlifting happen? (10:30)
  • Did she find her body responded very quickly early on? How strength is a LONG-TERM adaptation. (14:09)
  • When did she decide to compete in powerlifting? (19:13)
  • Was her goal to be the first female to pull 500 lbs.? What did it take to get there and what bumps in the road did she experience? (25:04)
  • The general steps you can do to alleviate pain TODAY. (32:50)
  • Did she change her approach to her workouts after her back injury? (39:04)
  • The differences between flexibility and mobility. (41:55)
  • How should someone PRIME their body before a physical event? (45:05)
  • What does her priming session look like? (47:21)
  • The value of unilateral movements to powerlifters. (48:05)
  • The benefits of unconventional training to powerlifting. (50:48)
  • What information annoys her the most about the strength/fitness camps? (53:39)
  • The story of ‘6 blind men who have never encountered an elephant’ and how people are so fast to draw absolute truths based on one single subjective experience. (56:10)
  • What are her strength goals moving forward? (57:28)

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0:00.0

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

0:06.0

Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

Stephanie Cohen, yeah.

0:15.0

One of the strongest, if not the, well definitely the strongest female in her way class.

0:21.0

One of the strongest girls I've ever even met.

0:24.0

One of the strongest women in the world ever.

0:27.0

And she's this tiny thing. She's like barely five feet tall, 120, 7 pounds.

0:33.0

This girl has lifted weights that were thought to be impossible.

0:37.0

Four times her body weight.

0:39.0

Yeah, 530 pound deadlift squats with 400 pounds on her Instagram page.

0:43.0

She's also very smart. She's a doctor of physical therapy.

0:47.0

So she understands movement and correctional exercise at a much higher level, the most strength athlete.

0:54.0

So in this episode, you know, we talk a little bit about past.

0:57.0

And then things get really technical.

0:59.0

So if you're into the technical aspect of lifting, if you're into learning how to prevent your body from getting injured,

1:06.0

how to utilize mobility training, a flexibility training to improve your performance.

1:11.0

We talk about some of the difference between mobility and flexibility and just some of the nuances of that.

1:16.0

And so you can kind of peer into that a little bit in this episode.

1:19.0

That's right. She's a 22 time world record holder.

1:22.0

And her website is hybrid performance method.com.

1:27.0

And then her Instagram page is awesome because you can see here lift weights that I swear you think they're fake.

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