Wes Kitts Eating, Training, and Triple Days in Prep for the 2020 Olympics w/ Wes Kitts, Anders Varner, and Doug Larson and Jackie Perez - Barbell Shrugged — Barbell Shrugged #417
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Wes Kitts, 2018 and 2019 Pan American Olympic weightlifting champion. Kitts was born in Knoxville, TN where he played high school soccer and football before going on to play Division 1AA football for Austin Peay State University. He began his weightlifting journey in 2014. In 2016 Wes moved to San Ramon, California to begin training at California Strength. He currently competes in the 109kg weight class, having moved up from 105kg class due to recent changes made by the IWF. Kitts holds multiple national titles including 2015 American Open Champion, 2016 National Champion, and 2016 American Open Champion. Kitts is currently coached by Dave spits and looks to make a run at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games.
In this episode of Barbell Shrugged, Anders, Doug, and Jackie Perez discuss the lead up to 2019 Worlds, the 2020 Olympics, and how in the hell Wes Kitts got so strong.
Minute Breakdown:
1-10 NFL or Weightlifting for power athletes
11-20 The introduction to Dave Spitz and Cal Strength
21-30 Eating and Training for Triple Days
31-40 Competing on the Olympic Stage
41-50 Preparing for One Ton Challenge
51-60 Strongman as a sport and eating to be huge
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, what an epic weekend it was |
| 0:03.6 | 2019 |
| 0:04.9 | Mr. Olivia |
| 0:06.4 | Fitate one ton challenge OTC to man |
| 0:11.0 | Bayes what an awesome weekend. Thank you to all the lifters. Thank you to Fitate. Thank you to Savage Barbell |
| 0:18.1 | bringing all the athletes bringing all the fun. We had such a good time and |
| 0:23.2 | We're gonna see a 400 pounds quad out of the lady here very soon. Leah Cassiano hit 375 |
| 0:30.7 | Everybody it was so savage. She also cleaned 260 that girl so strong |
| 0:36.8 | West kids is on the |
| 0:38.4 | Hard today talking about strong people this guy is going to worlds |
| 0:43.0 | Hopefully gonna be at 2020 Olympics representing the USA |
| 0:47.7 | He also |
| 0:49.0 | Smash didn't OTC won at the cross the games |
| 0:53.0 | He was coming off winning pan Ames when it gold at pan Ames flying across the world |
| 0:59.2 | literally across the world from Lima and |
| 1:03.5 | showed up in Madison come squad 600 pull |
| 1:08.6 | Seven or something crazy |
| 1:11.5 | So it's very cool that he was able to not and compete in the one ton challenge with us |
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| 1:28.8 | Gotta make sure you're getting your microbes. You got to make sure you get your vitamins and minerals |
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