International Weightlifting and the 2021 Olympics w/ Ursula Papandrea, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Coach Travis Mash Barbell Shrugged #596
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ursula is a former two-time national champion, two-time Olympic Festival champion, 5 time world team member and former record holder in both the snatch and the clean and jerk. She was an elite international athlete who distinguished herself as a coach in 2003 by becoming the first and only woman to attain USA Weightlifting's highest coaching level, Senior International Coach Level 5.
Ursula has extensive national and international experience in competitive weightlifting as an athlete since 1987, and 20+ years of coaching experience at national and international levels. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Exercise and Sports Science, and her Masters Degree in Political Science, and has had a career as a Professor at Austin Community College since 1994. She revived her competitive career to become Master's national champion and best lifter in 2009, national champion again in 2010, and once more breaking national and unofficial world records in 2013.
She became CrossFit Level 1 certified in 2010 and served as part of the CrossFit Olympic Lifting Certification Staff 2009-2015, in addition to teaching the USAW Level 1 and 2 Sports Performance courses.
Ursula has served on the USAW Board of Directors since 2009 and has been held the position of President since 2015. In 2017, Ursula was the first ever female elected as Vice President of the International Weightlifting Federation, a position she currently holds, and is also the IWF Women's Commission Chair.
In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:
- History of Texas Barbell
- Joining the IWF
- The rise to interim president of IWF
- Why the old guard of weightlifting is suppressing the sports growth
- How to fix weightlifting and why it is at risk for future olympics
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We go on Barbel Shrugged, we are hanging out with Ursula Papandria. |
| 0:05.0 | Papandria still can't say her name, confidently, even though I got it right. |
| 0:10.0 | Not sure I said it confidently. |
| 0:12.0 | You know, check it out. Ursula was the interim president of the IWF, |
| 0:17.0 | and it was really cool talking to her. |
| 0:19.0 | If you love some name drops and learning about the early days of USA Weightlifting, |
| 0:26.0 | I highly recommend or I think you're going to love the beginning of this show |
| 0:30.0 | because we go into a whole bunch of the teams and things that shaped her career |
| 0:33.0 | and a lot of the people that were influential in her life. |
| 0:37.0 | And then getting in the second half of the show, we get much deeper into |
| 0:41.0 | a lot of the weightlifting scene heading into the Olympics |
| 0:46.0 | and in the current state of weightlifting. |
| 0:48.0 | You're going to enjoy the show, but before we get into it, of course, |
| 0:51.0 | I want to thank our friends over at Bioptimizers. |
| 0:53.0 | Did you know that over 80% of the population is deficient in magnesium? |
| 0:57.0 | And that is the number one mineral to fight stress fatigue and sleep issues. |
| 1:02.0 | And there's one phase of sleep that's responsible for most of our body's daily rejuvenation, |
| 1:06.0 | repair, controlling hunger, and weight loss hormones, boosting energy, and so much more. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm talking about deep sleep and lately, I was feeling that I do not get enough deep sleep myself |
| 1:15.0 | because I got a brand new baby in the house keeping me up all night long. |
| 1:20.0 | Recently, I want to bio-optimizer founders weighed light heart on barbell striking weights |
| 1:24.0 | for the topic of magnesium in depth. |
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