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Laura Phelps is one of the most well-known names in powerlifting.

Her transition from gymnastics to long-distance running and to bodybuilding and finally powerlifting makes for a unique origin story in the sport.

Smashing records in four weight classes and totaling 11 times body weight is perfectly

indicative of her competitive spirit. And although she's not competed in several years, her love for

the sport has not waned in the slightest. Now her role as coach is to take other women beyond her own

records. Here it is, episode 512.

Hey, Laura, thanks for coming on Power Athlete Radio.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, so where are you, uh, where you zooming in from?

From Cincinnati, Ohio.

That's where I live, um, just literally in my living room.

So, yeah, I haven't seen you in forever so

I know kind of nice to see you we met years ago out at Westside oh my god dude that was like a

whole other lifetime ago literally when the CrossFit powerlifting courses were at Westside every

every month I think yeah yeah louis invited me to come out and kind of

give him my assessment yeah and I was like I don't know how this whole thing's going to go

down I know I know was what year was this was this pre-cross football? Yeah, this is, no, maybe this is like 2009, 2010, somewhere in there. And yeah, so Louis called me just out of the blue. And, you know, I mean, it's Louis Simmons, of course, everybody knows who Louis Simmons is. And he just calls me up. It's like, hey, would you come out? We're going to do this seminar. We'd love to have you come out and at least understand what we're doing and give me your

opinion on it.

And I remember, like, it was such an interesting dichotomy of, like, the West Side

environment, the lifters, and then all these really just thin GPP based

fit individuals

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