I'm always getting square with everything because that's how I was taught in wrestling, to basketball, to football, you keep everything square.

So you don't get much of an imbalances.

So I look at weightlifting just like I look at basketball.

So weightlifting, if you look at my exact start, which is square, everything forward.

That's the same position I was jumping.

So that's my most explosive position.

And that's why a lot of people, they look at weightlifting and they just separate it from sports.

Well this is why people do a little bit of weightlifting, to be more explosive, functional.

Functionals, the major word there.

We're going to Barbell Strog, the Mike Blitzer, Doug Larson, D. Kenny Kane, we're at Venice Barbell Club, and Venice Beach.

And they were hanging out with Derek Johnson.

And what's really special about Derek?

Well there's a lot of things special about Derek.

We sat down and launched with him.

But I found out that he's not only an international athlete, but an international coach, level five, USAW coach.

That's very impressive because to get to that point, you actually have to produce athletes.

To get there, it's not like, oh I just went to the seminars and I took the test, I did so good.

You actually have to demonstrate that you can produce athletes over time, which is really, really impressive.

Yeah.

Another interesting thing that we talk about this morning that I think our audience would love to hear about is, are your thoughts on training environment?

Like what makes a really good training environment? What makes like kind of a shitty training environment?

Like where do you need to be? What's the environment you need to be like if you want to be a world-class athlete and have a really good training session?

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