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Iron Culture

Ep. 111 - The Future of Powerlifting

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8827 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, three of the most talented lifters in the IPF discuss their training, the state of powerlifting and their lifting careers during COVID, and the future. We are joined by Jessica Buettner, multi-time raw Canadian national champion, World Classic Junior Champion, Commonwealth champion, and World Classic Open podium finisher, in addition to Bryce Krawczyk, multi-time Canadian raw and equipped national champion, World Classic podium finisher, and North American Powerlifting champion, and Taylor Atwood, six-time US raw national champion, and two-time World Classic Champion, to reveal how despite their mind-blowing totals, they are human like the rest of us. How have they fared in the last year? How has powerlifting fared, and what can we expect for the future of the sport? Join us to find out! 

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0:00.0

Eric, we're embroiled in some more controversy here.

0:02.8

And this is essentially people not understanding what capitalism is because there are those

0:07.8

that would say that I have a clear conflict of interest in this episode.

0:12.6

In that, we have yourself, who is the scientific advisor for elemental formulations, myself,

0:17.8

who's one of the co-founders, and we have three elemental athletes who

0:21.0

just happen to be the best of the best as it relates to powerlifting. We have Bryce Crockettach,

0:27.0

we have Jessica Bittner, we have Taylor Atwood. And so they would say, hey, this is clearly

0:31.0

an example of nepotism. They could have had anyone, but Omar brought on three of his athletes.

0:35.9

And I would say there is no conflict of interest because there's no conflict.

0:39.5

There's just interest here.

0:40.9

But I'm going to let you please take over and do the introduction because there are those

0:45.3

that would say they'd posit that Omar's just going to, you know, be grandiose with his praise

0:50.3

of these individuals.

0:51.2

And he's not going to be fair in his critique or evaluation.

0:55.0

Yeah, well, I think those critiques of these individuals, and he's not going to be fair in his critique or evaluation. Yeah, well, I think those critiques of you are misplaced.

1:00.6

You know, we have access, but we don't have control, folks, you know?

1:05.1

And anytime you might think that one of us is being biased. You know that we hold each other accountable.

1:11.8

We're not just yes men to one another. If I talk about mass, you should hear type of just vitriol

1:19.2

that comes out of Omar's mouth once we get off and he says, hey, you can't do that.

1:23.9

This is a community service podcast we're on. It's not here just to prop up your entities and corporations.

1:31.1

You got more LLCs and you got degrees.

1:33.5

He said that to me.

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