Barbell Shrugged — 4 Time Weightlifting National Champion Jessica Lucero — 329

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

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

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2018

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Jessica Lucero (@jessicalucero9) is a 4x USA Weightlifting National Champion, a world team member, current American record holder in the snatch, clean & jerk and total, and has dreams to go the Olympics.

In 2017, Jessica cleaned and jerked double her bodyweight at USA Weightlifting in the 58kg weight class. In 2018, she swept Gold for the 4th time in a row and snatched 200 lbs. in the 63kg weight class.

In this episode, we talk about chasing Gold From Day 1, mental toughness and overcoming mental barriers, what it's like living the life of a professional athlete, giving back to the future generations of olympic weightlifting, her olympic hopes for 2020, and more.

Enjoy!

- Doug and Anders

Transcript

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0:00.0	Another Saturday edition of Barbell Shrug hanging out with Jessica Lucero.
0:08.7	Look, you need to know something about Jessica Lucero.
0:12.0	She is a boss.
0:14.7	She's literally the strongest girl in the country in her weight class.
0:19.4	She has the American record in Clean and Jerk, American record in Snatch, and the American
0:25.8	record in Total.
0:27.2	That means literally of all of the Americans.
0:30.3	That way as much as her that have ever existed on this planet that really like lifting weights.
0:39.4	None of them.
0:41.1	Literally none of them are as strong as her.
0:45.2	Yeah, that's awesome.
0:48.0	That's incredible.
0:49.2	It's incredibly hard to be as good as she is at lifting weights.
0:53.6	It's so hard that nobody in the history of this country has ever done it before.
1:01.7	She's literally the best of all time in her weight class at lifting weights.
1:08.7	It's incredible.
1:10.6	Super stoked to hang out with her.
1:12.6	I hope you guys really enjoy listening to this podcast.
1:17.2	I think there's, I always enjoy any time the podcast goes from like, we're learning all
1:22.8	the things to, we all just became friends over the last 30 minutes, 45 minutes, and then
1:28.4	we just really have like an awesome, just as if we're all training partners conversation
1:34.1	and we're just hanging out talking about our love for lifting weights.
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