This week on Barbell Shrug, we talk with AJ Roberts, World Record Holder and the Squat

about realistic goals regarding the CrossFit Games.

Hey, this is Rich Froning, you're listening to Barbell Shrug for the video version, go to BarbellShrug.com.

Welcome to Barbell Shrug, a Mike Bluto, standing here with Doug Larsen, Chris Moore with CTP

behind the camera and we have a return guest, AJ Roberts.

You may see this guy more frequently, especially if you are tuning into Barbell business,

since he is pretty much taken over that for us.

Team member, we're all working on Barbell business together, but he is the lead on it now.

And Rion over here, he's got to take some punch like nobody's business.

Yeah, today we're going to be talking about what it takes, like what it realistically takes to

get to the games. And we were hanging out with AJ here and he was telling us about how he left

powerlifting, he had the biggest squat in the world at what weight, 242? No, he was standing

in the three-hawaited weight class. Oh, you were okay, you were fat.

Did you walk around that? I walked around to 320, so I was hefty guy.

You got a good man, that's pretty hefty. But you got your goal of a 1200 plus squat and then you

were kind of set your eyes on CrossFit. And we want to talk about kind of that process,

the type of training you had to go through and then the realizations that may have come with that.

But before we go any further, make sure to go to barbellstrug.com, sign up for the newsletter.

Hey, Jay, so you, I mean, if you watched previous show, whenever you were on before, it'll be in a show

next. Way back in the day, we talked about how you had a 1200 pound squat and then after that,

you were already looking to the next goal really quickly. Can you tell us about how that all went

down? Yeah, so I knew once I hit my goal of 12 or 5 that I was going to retire from powerlifting.

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