Stefi Cohen: From Soccer to Olympic Lifting to Powerlifting to Boxing, How Determination and Grit Shattered All the Barriers
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Stefi Cohen is a 25-time world record holding powerlifter and the strongest woman pound for pound in the world. She has dedicated her life to pushing the boundaries of what is physically possible. In addition to her passion for sports, Stefi is also a Doctor of Physical Therapy and Exercise Physiologist, using her knowledge and experience to educate the public about health and fitness by sharing evidence-based information using a no-BS approach. As an author, podcast host, YouTuber, and influencer, she uses her platform to encourage others to focus on building themselves from within. Stefi is also an advocate for women's rights and strives to inspire younger generations to make a positive impact on those around them through their skills and talents.
We get into Stefi’s background coming to the US, finding strength sports, going to PT school while launching a business and competing professionally, and everything that’s transpired since - which includes dominating in multiple professional sports.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:06.8 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:08.3 | And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast. |
| 0:12.4 | This episode of the Ready State podcast is brought to us by our friends at Sleep Me. |
| 0:21.7 | All sleep is not the same. |
| 0:24.3 | Tell me more. |
| 0:25.0 | Well, one of the things we're starting to recognize now, and we've known it forever, of course, deep sleep is the restorative sleep. |
| 0:30.7 | That's when you're putting out of the growth hormone, you're getting all the recovery. |
| 0:34.4 | Like, deep sleep's important. |
| 0:35.8 | But one of the ways to get really good deep sleep |
| 0:38.4 | is to maintain a low body temperature while you're sleeping. Weird. And if you're super hot, |
| 0:42.9 | you don't actually fall into that deep sleep as much or as well. I am a hot sleeper. I also am |
| 0:48.5 | starting to be old. Old cat syndrome is starting to affect me. I'm starting to be almost 50. |
| 0:54.3 | And one of the things that started to decay is I'm measuring this thing regularly on my ring is that I get less and less deep sleep if unless I'm not on it. Which means it's more and more critical for you to make sure your body's at the right temperature. So you get the requisite amount of deep sleep. Nailed it. Nailed it. So deep, Jew Juliet. If you want to improve your deep sleep, head on over to sleep. Me slash TRS to learn more and save on the purchase of any new cube or doc pro sleep system. Go to sleep. Me slash TRS to take advantage of our exclusive discount and wake up knowing you got a ton of deep sleep. |
| 1:29.2 | That's it. Don't let your deep sleep suffer from the fire legs. |
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| 1:35.5 | Look, one of the things that we have witnessed time and time again, especially for the past |
| 1:40.2 | decade, is that people are moving back to eating whole foods, which is great. |
| 1:45.0 | But then what's a downstream negative consequence of that? |
| 1:47.0 | Well, I can't think of many, except they've stopped salting their food, and they are working out like maniacs and eating in sort of a very saltless way. |
| 1:55.0 | And guess what happens? They don't feel as good. |
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