What's up guys? This is Mike Cashew and you're listening to the Brute Strength podcast. This week I

interviewed the prodigy Ian Wilson, one of America's top male lifters. Ian is a youngster, but he's already

been all around the country trained with the best of the best coaches as well as athletes. This guy is a very mature human being very mature lifter he's got a ton

of insight into the mental mental and physical approach to weightlifting last thing before

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hope you guys enjoy the show all right i'm here with ian wil, the youngest American ever to lift 400 pounds and 200 kilos.

What's up, Ian?

Hey, thanks for having me.

Absolutely, man.

I'm psyched to do this.

So I've heard over the years, you know, bits and pieces about your relationship with your dad and

how he's impacted your career a little bit. Can you tell us about that relationship? And namely,

what is it that you admire most about your dad yeah that's a great question um it's weightlifting

something that's been in our family for a long time my dad started lifting as a kid he wanted to get

stronger and he's done it his whole life and then he would work out when i was a little kid and so i was

exposed to it as a little when i was you know three. And so I was exposed to it when I was, you know, three,

four years old even. He tried to get me started when I was maybe six or seven just with the brimstick

and the bar and learn a little technique. He got the videos from the 1999, 2000 worlds, the 2000

Olympics. And I would watch them.

And I thought that, you know, everyone snatched 170 kilos.

And then he bought a set of weights with the bumper plates. And I remember my neighbor and I, we were trying to move one 25 kilo plate and as little kids.

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