Welcome to the Behind and Shield podcast. As always, my name's James Gearing, and this week

it is my absolute honor to welcome on the show, world champion hammer thrower, revered strength

and conditioning coach, and law enforcement officer Derek Woodsky. Now, in this conversation,

we discuss a host of topics in three and a half hours from his early life in rural British

Columbia, his journey into

athletics, the responsibility of high school and college coaches to preserve not only performance

but wellness in their athletes, his work with Charles Poliquin, his journey into the tactical

athlete space, supplementation, Bitcoin mining, and so much more.

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person on planet Earth who needs to hear them. So with that being said, I introduced to you

Derek Woodsky. Awesome. Thanks for having me. Well, Derek, I want to start by saying thank you so much for taking the time to come on

the Behind the Shield podcast today.

Awesome.

Thanks for having me on.

It's really cool to get the opportunity to do podcasts.

I have a tendency to be a bit long-winded, to say the least.

But at the very least, it gives me a chance to kind of tell a little

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