The Next Great American Weightlifter - Harrison Maurus - 295

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

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

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Harrison Maurus is a 17 year old weightlifting prodigy and world champion. Last year, Maurus not only won the 2017 Youth World Championships in Bangkok, Thailand, but also set a new Clean & Jerk Youth World Record of 192kg at the men’s 77kg group!

Maurus squatted 200kg at age 13, over 3x bodyweight, and just a month ago, earned a bronze medal in both the men’s 77 kg total and clean & jerk at the 2017 IWF Weightlifting World Championships in Anaheim, CA, securing Team USA’s first men’s weightlifting world medals in 20 years.

In this episode, we dive into Maurus’ path in the weightlifting world, his special relationship with his coach Kevin Simons (a CrossFit Games competitor), and his programming and coaching.

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0:00.0	Squatted, squat 100 kilos when he was 11 wing 40 kilos.
0:04.4	150 kilos when he was 12 and then he squat 200 kilos when he was 13 when 65 kilos.
0:11.1	So triple body weight squat at 13.
0:12.8	So like, all right, thank you might have a future.
0:14.4	Oh yeah.
0:15.3	Just a little bit.
0:30.0	We're going to Barbell's shrug.
0:48.8	I'm Mike Blitzer, who is Doug Larson and we're hanging out here at the World Championships
0:53.4	for weightlifting and we're standing here with Kevin Simmons and his athlete Harrison
0:58.1	Morris and what we, one reason we're standing here is Harrison, you broke your own world
1:05.2	record again.
1:06.2	Yeah, yeah, I broke.
1:08.2	Clean jerk, 193, one kilo over my 192.
1:11.9	Yeah, you're a world record that I said in Thailand a couple months ago.
1:15.4	Yeah, you're 17 years old, 77 kilos and you're the first American to podium at worlds
1:24.1	in what 20 years now?
1:25.3	20 years, that's right.
1:26.3	Yeah, I keep hearing, yeah.
1:29.1	I don't know, man.
1:31.9	So in Kevin, you're his coach and you've been in the CrossFit games a couple times.
1:36.4	Yeah, I competed twice as an individual.
1:38.3	Yeah, and you have an interesting background in gymnastics.
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