Olympians Chad Vaughn & Cheryl Haworth on the Future of USA Weightlifting
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
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🗓️ 18 June 2018
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Brute Strength Podcast, I'm speaking with two multiple time Olympians in the sport of Weightlifting, Chad Vaughn and Cheryl Haworth. In this episode we'll be diving into their early careers as weightlifters, what it was like qualifying for the Olympics, and finally looking at some of the really unique visualization techniques that Chad uses with his athletes. I'm also excited to announce that these guys are going to be the hosts for the new USA Weightlifting Podcast, so be sure to check them out! Enjoy the show.
Topics:
05:18 - Cheryl: Art School & Lifting
17:28 - Qualifying for the Olympics
21:20 - Clean & Jerking live on Regis and Kathie Lee
25:15 - Looking at the future of USAW
40:58 - Doping in the Weightlifting
1:02:29 - Bombing out at the '03 Championships
1:05:50 - Visualizing your lifts
1:21:30 - Advice for lifters
1:27:30 - USAW Podcast
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.4 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, 2012 and 2013 CrossFit Games Channel, Michael Cajou. |
| 0:19.6 | Mind, Body, Brute. |
| 0:25.0 | Hey, and welcome back. |
| 0:26.3 | My name is Mike Cashew, and you're listening to the Brute Strength podcast. |
| 0:29.9 | This week, I've got two guests. |
| 0:32.1 | The first is Chad Vaughn, two-time Olympian and Pan American Champion for the United States, one of the best |
| 0:39.2 | male lifters in the past couple decades. |
| 0:42.4 | And the second is Cheryl Hayworth, who is without a doubt the best female American lifter |
| 0:48.7 | in the past couple decades. |
| 0:50.5 | Cheryl was a three-time Olympian and a bronze medalist in the 2000 Olympic Games. |
| 0:57.9 | She was also a junior world champion in 2001 and 2002. |
| 1:03.2 | We start to show off talking about Cheryl's weightlifting career as a young kid. |
| 1:08.9 | She started when she was 14 and then qualified for the |
| 1:12.6 | Olympics only four years later. I talked to her about what it was like, what the experience was like |
| 1:18.8 | being a high school athlete going through so many changes so quickly. She was even on the Jay Leno show |
| 1:26.3 | when she was 17 gearing up for the Olympics. So we talk |
| 1:30.9 | about what it was like going through all of that as a kid. We talk about her experience going |
| 1:36.2 | through art college as a weightlifter. And then we get into a longer discussion about the future |
| 1:42.2 | of USAW, including the rise of some of our young |
| 1:45.7 | studs such as Harrison Morris and C.J. Cummings. We talk about steroids in the sport of weightlifting |
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