We sat down with up and coming 93kg lifter from Sweden, Oliver Dahlkvist. Oliver has recently squatting more than the WR in training and is looking to make some big moves at the next international competition. https://www.instagram.com/oliverdahlkvist/By Bryce Krawczyk and Ryan Stinn

We had a great chat with two time world champion Kelsey McCarthy, we really enjoyed this conversation and hope you do too! https://www.instagram.com/kelseymccarthy21/By Bryce Krawczyk and Ryan Stinn

This week Bryce and Ryan sit down and chat about motivation to train without meets and a bunch of other stuff, hope you enjoy.By Bryce Krawczyk and Ryan Stinn

A bit of a different episode this week, Bryce and I sit down and answer your questions. Hope you enjoy!By Bryce Krawczyk and Ryan Stinn

This week we got a chance to sit down with Julian Johannsson while he was actually away on vacation, so huge thanks to Julian for taking some time to chat with us! Julian is one of the best deadlifters out there recently pulling 409kg. We had a good time chatting with Julian and we hope you enjoy! https://www.instagram.com/julianjkj/…

Italian 63kg sensation Carola Garra is our guest this week. We had a great chat about how she trains at such a high level for both raw and equipped lifting and what the future holds for her. While Carola doesn't speak english we were lucky enough to have her boyfriend Francisco translate for us! https://www.instagram.com/carolagarra/ https://www.in…

Dean Bowring is our guest this week! Dean has been competing since 1993! And he's not just about the longevity, Dean won Open Worlds in 2009 in the SHW division. In recent years he's turned more to the coaching side of the sport due in part to injury but also it seems from a deep desire to give back to the sport he loves so much! Listen up! https:/…

This week we sit down with one of the best lifters from GBP Ellie Steel. Ellie is an amazing lifter and has recently surpassed some of the world records in her class. She is certainly one to keep an eye on over the next couple years as she starts to climb that 57kg world podium. https://www.instagram.com/elliefrickensteel/?hl=en…

Today we sit down with an all around amazing lifter, both in and out of equipment, Charles Okpoko. We talk about his entrance into the sport and rise up to placing 3rd at the World Games in 2017 and Bryce starts working on him to get him back into gear. https://www.instagram.com/charlesokpoko/By Bryce Krawczyk and Ryan Stinn

This week we sit down to talk with multi-time, multi-discipline world champion, world record holder, super star Bonica Brown. This was a really fun conversation and we hope you enjoy! https://www.instagram.com/bubblypowerlifter/By Bryce Krawczyk and Ryan Stinn

We sit down and talk with the one and only Mike Tuchscherer this week. We really dove into his competitive background and his win of the 2009 World Games before we change topics and discuss some thoughts on equipped programming. We had a great time speaking with Mike and hope you enjoy! https://www.instagram.com/miketuchscherer/ https://www.instagr…

Natalie Hanson is our guest this week. Natalie is an accomplished lifter from the USA. She has been competing since 2012 and won her first open worlds in 2015. She has gone on to become a 3 time world champion in powerlifting and bench press only. Natalie is the current world record holder in the 84kg in the squat with a huge lift of 273.5kg. Check…

This week our guest is the number one male equipped lifter in Canada, Adam Ramzy. Adam has been competing since 2010 and has placed third at Open Worlds in 2016, qualifying for the World Games in Poland in 2017. We discuss in quite a bit of detail Adam's training, including his peaking up to a meet, as well as some of his incredible weekly volume l…

We sit down with Marte Elverum from Norway this week in a wide ranging conversation about everything from how she transitioned from MMA into Powerlifting to how to make better coffee. Marte has been competing for 12 years and has been competing internationally since 2011. She has placed second at open worlds twice and currently holds the 72kg IPF W…

This week our guest is Norwegian lifter Stian Walgermo. Stian has been competing for 13 years and has been a 10 time open world competitor with a best finish of silver in 2015 in Luxembourg. He has also a 13 time Norwegian National Champion and has won the European Championships twice. He has been a multi-time World Games athlete in both 2013 in Ca…

So with us today, is arguably one of, if not the best powerlifter in Canadian history. Rhaea has been competing since 2003, internationally competing 30 times, and holds 5 world records in two weight classes right now. Rhaea Stinn has set nearly 20 world records throughout her career, across both equipped AND classic lifting. She’s won Sub-Junior W…

In this week's episode we talk with Blaine Sumner. Blaine made his first big splash on the IPF scene in 2012, first at the Raw Pacific Invitational where he would become the first classic lifter to squat 400kg, setting both the squat and total world records. Then a few months later at the Classic Powerlifting Cup in Sweden, the precursor to Classic…

Welcome to our very first episode of the Equipped Bruised Tired Podcast. We take the time this episode to introduce ourselves and give a little bit of background on our history in the sport as well as some stories from this year's CPU National Championships that took place about 7000 years ago, or so it feels, in March.…

In Episode 5 of Thoughtful Peapods, Kelsey McCarthy explores how she has derived helpful life lessons from her failures in life. In this episode, she discusses self-conflict and how she manages it. Learning life lessons from some of her biggest mistakes has caused her to see that in many failures lies success because sometimes you can learn from wh…

In Episode 4 of Thoughtful Peapods, Kelsey explores the strengths and weaknesses that make up her identity and personality and she discusses how learning to embrace her flaws has made her unbelievably strong and proud of who she is. She performs her raw a cappella cover of Perfect by Ed Sheeran and changes the lyrics about loving someone else to lo…

In Episode 3 of Thoughtful Peapods, Kelsey McCarthy focuses on her personal and unique experiences with love and the lessons she has learned from it. She relates her experiences to nuggets of songs she resonates with and contemporary music and lyrics that she finds meaningful. Here are the songs referenced in the order they appear. They fall under …

In Episode 1 of Thoughtful Peapods Kelsey McCarthy covers the song "Gravity" by Sara Bareilles. She discusses her life experiences with regret throughout her late childhood. She also speaks about embracing vulnerability as a means to strengthen one's resilience in order to heal and grow. She also reaches out to the listener and emphasizes the impor…

In Episode 2 of Thoughtful Peapods Kelsey McCarthy covers "Gift of a Friend" by Demi Lovato. She discusses her life experiences with friendship and how it has impacted her life in negative and positive ways. She also analyzes the lyrics of the song she covers to determine what they mean to Demi Lovato and herself. In the last segment, Kelsey talks …