Greg Everett is the owner of Catalyst Athletics, head coach of the USA Weightlifting National Champion team Catalyst Athletics, author of the books Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches and Olympic Weightlifting for Sports, director, writer, producer, editor and everything in between of the documentary American Weightlifting, co-host of the Weightlifting Life Podcast, and publisher of The Performance Menu journal.
Greg is also a fifth-place finisher at the USAW National Championships, masters national champion, masters American Open champion, masters American record holder in the clean & jerk, and Olympic Trials coach.
In this show, Greg and I talk about the changes he’s seen in the Olympic lifting culture over the past decade, his thoughts on coaching newbies both online and in-person, and his response when people say that “coaching the lifts takes to much time.”
It was really great catching up with Greg, and I think there’s some awesome back and forth in this show.
This Week on the Physical Preparation Podcast
- MR Monologue: How do we fix the injury epidemic in youth sports and training?
- How Greg got his start in the world of physical preparation.
- His career path, and how he ultimately wound up in Oregon
- The moment he knew Olympic weightlifting was his jam.
- How the culture around Olympic lifting has evolved over the past 10 years, especially with so many people now getting into the sport.
- How he’d reply to someone that said the “Olympic lifts take too long to coach.”
- The difference between online and offline coaching, and how he works with new athletes in both domains.
- The BIG Question
- The lightning round where we talk about Greg’s biggest influences in Olympic lifting, the books he’s reading right now, and what’s next for Greg Everett.
Connect with Greg
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Greg’s “Stuff”:
- Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches
- Olympic Weightlifting for Sports,
- American Weightlifting
- Weightlifting Life Podcast, and
- The Performance Menu journal
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