Rituals, Imagery, Self-Discovery and more with Jessica Lucero - Ep. 37

The Michael Caz Podcast

Michael Cazayoux

Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

It’s time to meet Jessica Lucero. For those of you who might be less familiar, Jessica is the reigning National ChampionWeightlifter in the 58-kilo category and also the American record-holder in the snatch in her weight group. She has over a decade ofexperience under her belt in the world of weightlifting and hasshown tremendous progress in her career in the last two years alonewhich may very well propel her into claiming a spot in the women’sNational Olympic Team. In this episode we get to hear what it’s like being in the trenches; from working with sports psychologists, to how bacon and pancakes can be your missing ingredient for setting PR’s, and a very interesting tool called Sports ImageryTraining.

Want to get to know Jessica even more? – Follow her on social media:

Instagram: @JessicaLucero9
Twitter: @jessicalucero97
Snapchat: JessicaS979

Topics of discussion:

[3:30] Being yourself will always work better than trying to be like your idols

[6:23] Avoiding negativity

[9:00] How focusing too much on others can actually hurt you

Know YOUR body, focus on YOUR weaknesses instead of someone else's strengths
Making false idols

[13:15] How Jessica went from missing all her lifts in 2014 to setting the new American snatch record

Click here to see Jessica break the American snatch record

[15:49] Finding motivation in weightlifting

Stay focused & get in the zone
Have fun & enjoy the process
Remaining present

[29:02] Sports Imagery Training – Do’s & Don't

Click here to learn more – Techniques & Tips

[35:30] Diet/ Nutrition

Working AgainstGravity

[45:08] Role models & other weightlifters

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What's up everyone? This is Michael Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast.
0:04.0	This week I interviewed American record-holding weightlifter, Jessica Lucero.
0:08.8	Jessica is a 58 kilo lifter. She's been lifting for 12 years and this year won Nationals and broke the
0:16.0	American Senior American Snatch record. Before doing this interview I had no idea how
0:21.2	insightful Jessica was but she shared some serious life wisdom as well
0:26.7	as a lot of things that set her apart as a professional in the sport of weightlifting.
0:32.3	Before we get started if you have 20 seconds,
0:35.0	I would love if you could leave me a review.
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0:41.0	backslash, podcast, backslash podcast back slash reviews enjoy the show
0:47.0	hey jess how are you how are you great how are you very Very good. How is it being in San Jose training with your coach lately?
0:58.3	It's been so nice. Just having somebody there watching me and cheering for me it's been great.
1:05.2	Good good time to be out there as well with Nationals coming up or trials. Yeah.
1:13.0	Well, cool.
1:14.0	Thank you so much for making time for this.
1:15.0	I'm excited.
1:16.0	Me too.
1:18.0	So, remind me, I think you've been lifting for 12 years, is that right?
1:22.0	Yeah, since, well, since... been lifting for 12 years is that right? Yeah since well since 2004. Okay so yeah coming
1:28.2	up on 12 years so this year you won Nationals and you broke the American Snatch record and I think you
1:37.0	uh... you unofficially broke another record or two right?
1:41.0	Yeah. So what was that experience like for you this year? It's been great. It's been good building from each performance and learning from mistakes that I made and just trying to grow and get better.
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