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Earlier this week, we lost legend Dr. Fred Hatfield.

Better known to some as Dr. Squat, Hadfield served as inspiration and knowledge for those of us in the strength community.

To say that Dr. Hadfield was a gifted lifter would be an understatement, and to say that he was an incredible human, an insult.

Frederick was raised an orphan from his birth until he was 18,

then he joined the Marine Corps, and later he earned his PhD in motor learning.

No matter if Dr. Hatfield was shattering world powerlifting records, which he did twice,

or writing about the science of training, he did so by pouring his heart into each endeavor.

Dr. Hatfield was known to be an eloquent speaker, and particularly so on his favorite topic of passion.

We were lucky enough to sit down with him for a special episode of The Long Road.

Here it is, The Long Road and episode 208.

Hey, this is John Wellborn. I'm here on the Long Road. Once again, talk to me, Johnny Live. We have our special guest, Dr. Fred Hatfield, aka Dr. Squat, has the, you know, not only is one of the most prolific power lifters in history, but also holds distinction is probably one of the best podcasts we've ever done here on power athlete radio so

doc thanks for coming today i really appreciate you taking the time of with you know in front of

your busy ass seminar that you got going today which we're going to which i'm excited about

i enjoy these yeah so uh give us a little history like give us that you know the 10,000 foot

i mean um obviously we know uh you know a lot about you in terms of the listeners having, you know,

listening to the last podcast, but you know, give us a little bit of history and hopefully

we can, you know, book in this thing.

All right.

Nobody's ever asked me the single most important question. How did you get as strong as you were being as little as

you're just a short guy i'm not big how tall are you five and a half feet so five and a half feet

and what made the difference that everybody wants to say genetics, but it wasn't genetics.

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