Sean Waxman On Leadership, Weightlifting, & The Growth Mindset

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Business, Training, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Paleo, Weightlifting, Nutrition, Crossfit

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🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Our guest this week is as humble as he is accomplished. You can tell as soon as you walk into his facility, which just so happens to be one of the oldest weightlifting gyms in the country, that you are stepping into a historic place.

We are taking about Sean Waxman. Sean has been a coach and athlete in the sport of weightlifting before it was even popular in the US. He has been a player in growing the sport to where it is today and has trained with and coached some of the best athletes in the sport.

In this week’s episode, we dive into what Sean is doing to create elite-level weightlifters, his coaching and leadership style, and the history of the sport of weightlifting.

Enjoy the show,

Mike

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0:00.0	You should be in shape to train all the time, right?
0:02.6	You know, because otherwise what the fuck, you know, what are you doing?
0:06.5	So there's no offseason. I mean, you're seasoned ends when you retire.
0:30.0	But, you know, I was respectful when we were in class. It was one way and then when we were outside of class, it was another way far out.
0:51.0	So, and I think the people that were able to manage that change stayed in the inner circle and those that weren't, you know, he just kind of disregarded.
1:06.0	So you had to know like what had to wear and when. And we were all able to figure that out.
1:13.0	But, yeah, I mean, he's party's, party like with the best of them, man.
1:18.0	Shit. Man. But, yeah, it was great. What a rich, vibrant time for me at that, you know, learning the seeds of knowledge will be in, will be implanted.
1:36.0	Well, they were planted already. They were being cultivated at that point.
1:39.0	It's great. Awesome. Wouldn't, wouldn't change anything.
1:44.0	Awesome. Well, Krunabarvel Shrugged, a Mike Blitzer here with Doug Larson, Kenny Kane. And we're in LA at the, I believe this is the oldest weightlifting gym in LA.
1:57.0	Well, I think it might be the oldest, only weightlifting gym in the country as far as a business goes.
2:05.0	Yeah. So this Shawn Waxman speaking here and you've been coaching and involved in the sport for a very long time.
2:14.0	And we've come to find out all your secrets. No secrets. Yeah. And you were, we spoke a couple years ago.
2:23.0	And one of the things that we talked about was how you embrace the crossfit thing that popped up and what a blessing that's been to the sport.
2:32.0	Yep. And so I'm excited to talk to you about talking to somebody who's, was very open-minded in the beginning.
2:39.0	And it also has a lot of this tradition in weightlifting.
2:43.0	Sure. So, yeah, it's a real pleasure to be here hanging out with you.
2:47.0	Yeah, we, it's, it's great. I mean, I hate to be a downer, but you know, the last time you guys were here, Chris was here.
2:55.0	Yeah.
2:56.0	And I ran into Chris and I spoke at Reno when, when I think of these Americans at Reno.
3:04.0	And he was at the Starbucks and he was, he was, he was, he was, he was waiting for his plane, you know, he had some time and went by and it was a crazy line.
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