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PA Radio – Episode 214: Derek Woodske

Power Athlete Radio

Power Athlete

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8608 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2017

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Small town, big talent. This week we feature our conversation with Derek Woodske [@DerekWoodske], NCAA All American and National Champ in track and field. Although Derek has proven himself a standout athlete and strength coach to boot, there’s something else that makes him unique. Having grown in a small British Columbia town with a population… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Hey everyone. Thanks for tuning into Power Athlete Radio. This week we feature our conversation with Derek

0:12.4

Woodski, NCAA All-American and National Champ in track and field. Although Derek has proven

0:18.0

himself a standout athlete and strength coach to boot, there's something else that makes him unique.

0:23.8

Having grown up in a small British Columbia town with a population of only 250 people, Derek had limited exposure to athletic talent or even competition for perspective.

0:33.9

At just 16 years old and 185 pounds, Derek Woodski did a barbell back squat for the very first time in his life at a local fair.

0:42.4

After successfully completing 425, no one in his small town seemed to bat an eye.

0:47.6

It was only by chance, circumstance, and one whopper of a lie that Derek made it out of his insulated community and on to compete

0:54.7

in hammer throwing at the highest levels.

0:57.0

This is episode 214.

1:03.5

Power Athlete Nation, what is up?

1:06.4

Luke and John are sitting around my kitchen table in Austin.

1:10.7

Say hi, John. What's happening? And text dialed in from Houston. Say hi, hi, Tex. and John are sitting around my kitchen table in Austin say hi John what's

1:11.6

happening and text dialed in from Houston say hi text howdy howdy of course

1:17.1

mr. fucking mosey with his southern draw you know the one thing I realized about the

1:22.2

southern accent is very attractive on women and it makes dude sound like idiots unless

1:26.5

they say you dumb motherfucker

1:28.2

then you kind of feel like yeah yeah well tom doesn't really have a southern accent he just has

1:33.3

that like gritty construction of smoked a thousand cigarettes texas accent which kind of sounds like

1:38.1

john wayne and cowboys i love one i believe it's i believe it's called rasp he's got a rasp

1:43.4

and my favorites when he leads in with like john i'm not going to tell you you're being a dipshit right now, but you know, you're a fucking asshole. Ladies and gentlemen, this is another episode of the premier podcast in Strength and Conditioning, Power Athlete Radio. One quick brief update. I'm pretty stoked as speaker list is building for John, complete my sentence.

2:05.3

The Power Athlete Symposium, 2017.

2:08.0

Yeah, 2012, 2017.

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