Ep. 253 - 2023 Lightweight WNBF Pro World Champion Dirk Emmerich
Iron Culture
The MASS Crew
4.8 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
We are joined today by pro natural bodybuilding world champion Dirk Emmerich. Dirk is one of the many emerging stars of the newest era of competitive natural bodybuilding. In 2021, in his very first bodybuilding season, he made history. He won his WNBF pro card in the most impressive way possible, by not only winning his class at WNBF Worlds but then - as a bantamweight - he won the WNBF world overall amateur bodybuilding title, the first bantamweight ever in the then 32-year history of WNBF Worlds to do so. This year, Dirk made just as much of an impact in his pro debut as he did in his bodybuilding debut, as he medalled in multiple pro shows, including winning the pro lightweight WNBF Valhalla title. Finally, his season culminated in winning the WNBF Pro Worlds Lightweight title in the largest lightweight pro class in history, consisting of 16 competitors. How did he do it? What type of planning, mentality, talent, and coaching does it take to be so successful in your debut seasons as an amateur and professional bodybuilder? Join us to learn what went into these historic rookie seasons.
00:00 Eric… Trexler… Helms? And introducing Dirk
05:13 What got Dirk into lifting
11:20 The art of bodybuilding
16:48 Dirk’s natural talent
20:30 Dirk’s calories and individual variation
32:27 The next steps for Dirk and his relationship with Berto
39:16 Dirk’s experience of Worlds and success
45:33 What does competitive bodybuilding mean to Dirk?
53:23 DASGYM and the ANBF
57:00 Rivalry and camaraderie with Benjamin Schuster
1:04:29 The final words and where to find Dirk
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| 0:00.0 | Eric or wait no, uh, Trexler? Helms. |
| 0:06.9 | Okay, I messed up at first, then we got it. |
| 0:10.9 | So we're folks, we're gonna get this intro right eventually when it's a dual Eric, a dual doctor, a dual doctor Eric episode. |
| 0:20.5 | But it's not just a dual Dr. Eric episode today dual doctor, a dual doctor Eric episode. But it's not just a dual doctor Eric episode today. |
| 0:24.3 | We are privileged to be joined by the 20, 23, lightweight WMBF world pro men's bodybuilding champion, |
| 0:36.1 | Dirk Hemrich. |
| 0:37.1 | Welcome to Iron Culture, my friend. |
| 0:39.7 | Man, it's an honor to be on, man. |
| 0:41.7 | It's a big honor for me to be on. |
| 0:43.8 | So, yeah, I'm excited for that one. |
| 0:46.8 | Super, super excited. |
| 0:49.2 | Yeah, no. |
| 0:50.8 | It's our honor. |
| 0:52.6 | And this is something, um, |
| 0:57.1 | this is something we want to do a little more on Iron Culture is start getting into highlighting some of the more top athletes. |
| 1:00.3 | So I'm just going to drop some hints that we may have scheduled some two other highly, |
| 1:07.3 | highly impressive athletes from WNBF worlds who are coming on that I think, |
| 1:12.9 | I think it's mostly me and Trex doing the interviews, |
| 1:15.1 | us the resident competitive bodybuilders, which will be good. |
| 1:18.4 | But yeah, |
| 1:19.2 | there's been some really historic performances and careers that have happened this year, |
| 1:24.8 | looking at people who are multiple title winners across some of the top bodybuilding |
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