Hey everybody, Mike Blitzow here.

If you haven't already checked out our free ebook on improving your snatch, clean and jerk,

you can grab a copy over at barbellsfrug.com by clicking the icon for it on the right side of the page.

Well you're about to listen to isn't an episode of the show.

It's audio from a three-part conversation we filmed a couple weeks ago,

in preparation for our new online weightlifting program, Flight.

This is part one of three and we talk about the keys to becoming a successful weightlifter.

Registration for our online weightlifting program, Flight is now open and will be until February 10th.

For all the details and to grab your spot visit FlightWaylifting.com.

Go check it out now because we're giving away discounts and bonuses that earlier you sign up.

Some ladies and gentlemen, I'm Mike Blitzow here with Doug Larson. You might recognize us from the

barbellsfrug podcast. We're standing here with our head weightlifting coach Alex Macklin.

We're going to be talking about the ways to being a successful weightlifter, the journey that you

must go through. We brought Alex in because he has a very typical journey. We got to watch him

over how long ago did you start weightlifting? Like four years ago. Four years ago. Four, five years ago.

He started training five years ago, something like that. He started in a CrossFit gym,

discovered weightlifting and then we got to watch his progression over time. Doug and I aren't as lucky.

We actually were introduced to weightlifting in a very good way. We don't know what it's like to have

the struggle of the shiny object syndrome as much. But we brought Alex in because we think that

you're going to see his journey and you're going to go, oh, you're going to learn from his

lessons. You can skip ahead. He got to skip a little bit ahead of a lot of people, but he's still

had a lot of struggles along the way. Hopefully you can learn from his story a little bit. But first,

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