Episode 70: Ed Coan
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2019
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcast with hosts Dr. Shawn Baker and Zach Bitter. For this episode, we welcome Ed Coan onto the show. Ed is widely recognized as one of the greatest powerlifters of all time. He joins the show to share what it was like to train at the peak of his sport.
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| 0:46.5 | Phone, she reset my password. |
| 0:48.9 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:50.0 | I had to FaceTime her in Norway to be able to get it. |
| 0:53.7 | Oh, man. Are you, where are you at right now, Ed? Are you, are you, looks like it. Suburb, suburbs just outside of a Chicago on the south side. Oh, okay. So we're still up in the Chicago area. Yeah, so it's, it's, we got a wonderful weather here, as you can see. Yeah, I can see the snow. |
| 1:11.1 | Oh, yeah, you're getting all the winter. |
| 1:12.6 | I've got family kind of in the northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin area, so I always hear |
| 1:18.1 | about the big storms coming through. |
| 1:19.5 | Yeah, they usually get hit the hardest. |
| 1:21.8 | I'm in between southern and northern, so I don't get that much. |
| 1:26.5 | Yeah, I used to live up when I was a kid I lived in Chicago Heights and then... |
| 1:30.0 | I fight there a few times a week out in the Heights. |
| 1:33.3 | Oh, do you? |
| 1:33.8 | Yeah, my grandfather was it. |
| 1:34.7 | My grandfather was like the Gold Gloves boxing champ in Chicago Heights when he was a young man, |
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