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This is episode 67 of the Squat University podcast.

To go with each and every one of these shows is to bring you as much value-packed content

to help you move better in the gym and in life, decrease your body's aches and pains and

help you reach your true athletic potential.

Now for today's podcast, I got the amazing chance to sit down with Jordan Siyah.

Now, if you don't know who Jordan is, you need to.

He's literally the epitome of the phrase student of the game. He has a ton of experience in the world

of powerlifting, even got the chance to go and train at West Side Barbell for a short time, which we'll

talk about today. And he literally works his face off learning and growing his knowledge base

so he can help others as a coach,

which I can completely respect. We dive into how he became Gary Vaynerchuk's coach and lessons

he has taken for successfully growing a social media presence in 2019. And as you'll find out,

we ended up bonding over a few things, especially our love for long form blogging on all things exercise, science related, talking about lifting big weights and of course coffee.

So I think you will really enjoy today's podcast. Without further ado, let's get to today's show.

Jordan, thank you so much for taking time out of your day to sit down and come on the Squat University podcast. For everyone out there who does not know of your background and everything that you've done in life, can you please just give us a quick background on yourself? Yes. I mean, I could ramble on for hours. So if this is too long, just cut me the hell off right in the middle of a bit. So first of all, thank you for having me, man. I'm stoked. This is great. Um, I start, so basically I got into fitness because I started wrestling when I was eight years old. And, um, and from I wrestled all the way from eight to the end of high school. But when I got to freshman year, when I was like 13, 14, I beat a junior out for the varsity spot. So I had to cut from 112 pounds to 103 pounds, which like, yeah, number one, I was super small.

I was like, I wrestled 103 pounds.

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