The Most Experience Weightlifting Coach In America - Bob Takano - 290

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

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

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🗓️ 6 December 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Bob Takano is a highly respected weightlifting coach who was inducted into the USA Weightlifting Hall of Fame in 2007 for his contributions to coaching. He has been the coach of four national champions, two national record holders, and 27 top ten nationally ranked lifters. Bob has been on the coaching staffs of 17 U.S. National teams to international competitions, five of those being World Championships and the Summer Olympics. His lifters have competed in seven Olympic Trials with one, Albert Hood, the third American to snatch double bodyweight, earning a berth on the 1984 team.

Bob is also on the teaching staff for the USAW Weightlifting Coaching Education program and presents his own seminars as well. He also has his own gym, Takano Athletics, at 6036 Variel Ave., Woodland Hills, CA 91367.

He's got a ton of knowledge to share, enjoy!

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0:00.0	You cultivate confidence in your coaching on the part of your athletes.
0:06.5	And I have most of them to the point where they just say,
0:10.4	put whatever you want on the bar and I'll lift it.
0:13.2	And they, you want to get them to the point where they're thinking about,
0:17.1	how do I lift the weight and not what's on the bar?
0:20.8	Because what's on the bar is a distraction.
0:30.0	We're going to Barbell Shrug, I'm Mike Blitzow, here with Doug Larson and Andy Galpin.
0:57.7	And we're here with Coach Bob DeCano.
1:00.4	We've traveled all the way to Woodland Hills, California.
1:03.3	And we're here at DeCano Athletics.
1:06.4	Bob is, Coach Bob is a weightlifting hall of famer.
1:10.3	So you've been inducting the USA Weightlifting Hall of Fame.
1:13.0	And you've been coaching international athletes at the elite level.
1:17.8	Yes.
1:18.2	Probably more than any other coach out there right now.
1:20.8	Well, I guess you could say that.
1:24.4	Very humble way to say, yes.
1:26.3	Sure have.
1:26.8	And what's really cool about doing this show with you today is Doug, Andy and I.
1:31.4	We all met in weightlifting.
1:33.5	We're all weightlifting at the same school.
1:35.5	And we found that much before we found CrossFit.
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