88- American Weightlifting w/ Catalyst Athletic's Greg and Aimee Everett

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Business, Training, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Paleo, Weightlifting, Nutrition, Crossfit

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🗓️ 30 October 2013

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Snatch, Clean & Jerk. When it comes to these lifts Greg is one of the most respected minds in the sport. We traveled to Sunnyvale, CA to visit Greg's gym Catalyst Athletics to interview him and his wife Aimee.

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0:00.0	This week on Barbell Shrug we're going to be Greg and Amy Everett of Catalyst Athletics.
0:04.4	Hey, this is Rich Froning, you're listening to Barbell Shrug, for the video version go to BarbellShrug.com.
0:19.5	Welcome to Barbell Shrug, I'm Mike Bletsey with Doug Larson and Chris more hanging out in Sunnyvale,
0:24.8	California, with Amy Everett, if you're not familiar with what she does, she's a weightlifting coach and
0:34.0	athlete at Catalyst Athletics. Can you give us a, oh wait, before we get into Amy's biography.
0:42.0	Hold that thought. Hold that thought. Make sure to go to BarbellShrug.com, sign up for the newsletter,
0:48.2	doing cool stuff all the time. We're not going to talk about it here, believe me. So sign up for that.
0:53.7	All right. So Amy, tell us a little bit about yourself. How did you get into weightlifting?
1:02.9	And what bright you to this point in your life right now standing here with us.
1:07.2	Right now here today. That's right. Well, when I was a, I'm like almost 100 in weightlifting
1:13.8	years, so really long time ago I was playing volleyball and my then club volleyball coach sent me to
1:22.8	this guy. You may know him. His name's Mike Bergner. Oh, you know who he is. He's so famous. I know.
1:29.8	He's like Jay Z famous now. Really famous, but he's up there. I know. He, so I met him when I was
1:37.9	just a little girl 19 a long time ago and I, you know, weightlifting wasn't how it is today with
1:47.5	like all these coaches and you know, the popularity of it that CrossFit has brought and stuff. And so
1:52.2	he just looked at me and said, Hey, see that what that guy's doing right there? That's what I want you to do.
1:57.4	That's what you have to do. That's how I learned. And I like, I'd never in my entire life lifted
2:03.8	away. I played three varsity sports in high school all four years, but we didn't never went to a
2:08.9	weight room. And so I was like, wow, this is kind of cool. So I turned down volleyball and I started
2:15.3	weightlifting. Turned down. You weren't built for volleyball anyway. Well, I have a really good
2:19.5	vertical job. So it's like a, wow, look at this short little girl. Then whoosh out of nowhere.
2:24.6	Here I go. Jumping in. Yeah, good verticals. I'm now or you did then too. Well, I did then.
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