4.8 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2020
⏱️ 113 minutes
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This episode is sure to create a lot of future apologies for the co-owners. In this far-ranging interview with IPF royalty and powerlifting phenom Jessica Buettner, the hosts immediately mispronounce her last name. Gracious in victory as well as in hearing butchered variations of her last name, Jessica has ascended to the tippity top of drug-tested powerlifting in only a few short years. Beyond the junior world championship and world records however is an insightful story of a lifter overcoming the odds, redefining what strength means and becoming an ambassador of all things heavy lifting.
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0:00.0 | Eric, you know, we've been talking about muscles and muscles are cool, but what can they do? |
0:07.3 | And that is why at Iron Culture, if myself and Eric can't be champions, well maybe champions in your heart, |
0:14.0 | we should bring on world champions, and that's why we're honored to bring on today, |
0:18.2 | as we found out the last name, Bittner on the channel an IPF |
0:23.7 | junior world champion let's face it 2020 if it was going to happen the world championship |
0:28.6 | there was a very strong possibility of winning her first open world championship just an |
0:35.0 | absolute monster lifter we're honored to have her. |
0:37.8 | More than that, she's been using her platform to educate people that follow her to help empower them. |
0:43.0 | And so she's one of the, I would say, emerging, leading voices when it comes to the powerlifting |
0:48.4 | community. |
0:49.5 | Yeah, she's just an incredible lifter. |
0:51.0 | She, I think, has a five, I want to say a five, 60-ish total in the 72 |
0:57.4 | kilo weight class in the IPF, which represents Canada. She's a multi-time Canadian national champion, |
1:03.4 | two-time junior world champion and her, I'm saying her freshman debut in the open category. |
1:09.5 | She was right in the running and competing again some of the |
1:12.5 | best lifters in the world. I want to say, Isabella von Weisenberg, who we've had on, a fantastic |
1:17.8 | squad or out of Sweden. This is 2019 Sweden World Championships placed third in that competition, |
1:23.1 | and then the ever-impressive Kimberly Walford won. So immediately competitive going from the junior |
1:30.2 | division to the open division. And like you said, huge threat. And she just has one of the most |
1:35.2 | impressive deadlifts in powerlifting, I would say, pulling 250 at her body weight of 72. That's an |
1:43.2 | impressive deadlift regardless of sex division. |
1:47.1 | So she's just absolutely crushing it. |
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