Chalk My Back!

In this episode, guest Jamie Smith of Melbourne Strength Culture joins Anas to discuss some of the tenants of his coaching philosophy and key ideas that can help lifters to guide their training into the next level. Anas and Jamie delve into topics such as how to optimize variables within your training and how you can structure your own framework as well as resources to use to get ideas to create y...

In this mult-part series; David and Anas take a deep dive into the main points that can help you manage training and find trends within your own training to help keep you lifts progressing. David and Anas go over the how having wide training experiences and a longevity mindset can be more beneficial for long term progression and how all this can be used as meaningful data. They talk about the prog...

Block structure, personal experiences, and how to set yourself up with secret exercises in order to achieve your powerlifting potential! Anas and David take another deep dive into how to troubleshoot training resources and how to see trends in movement and how to get the most out of your training blocks. They also compare past methods seen in their experiences and how programs now address modern p...

In this episode of Chalk My Back! Anas and David talk about problem solving and movement as it relates to powerlifting as well as how one can find issues in their own training to be able to make progress. As Anas and David delve deeper into movement constraints and issues they also give personal examples as to what they've seen as coaches and what problems they've encountered with powerlif...

In this episode of Chalk My Back! Anas and Abe talk about the recent news and talk about the events that have been occuring between Israel and Palestine. Anas covers the history of the conflict with how it started and arose and how the territory came to be while Abe gives us the context and more current events and how they tie in what the news might talk about. Join in as we discuss a topic that i...

It's been a while CMB gang but we're back with a banger for you guys! In this episode the boys go over some life PR's as well as recap raw nationals. Anas gives us the play by play as to his entire experience as well as some behind the scenes of the meet that offers some unique perspective as to what the whole experience of raw nationals is like. Does Josh get his pro card? Abe is now...

In this episode we are joined by Nevin Saju a DPT who specializes in helping those who want to get back to either lifting to their fullest or being better at their respective sport! We also get into his origin story with how he started PT school his why and how he got to where he is in his Physical Therapy journey. Along the way Nevin gives us some personal insight into how he treats his patients...

In this episode we discuss where we've been for the past couple weeks since our last upload as well as what we've got planned for the future! Josh talks about a recent home project while Anas gives up a meet recap for his athlete Mae at the TBS meet. Along the way we discuss commentary that we did for equipped nationals as well as future plans to do more commentary to bring you the fans mo...

In this episode of Chalk My Back! We finish the three part series of diving into each of our host and what their own respective journeys through powerlifting have been. Abe closes out the series with a look into his start with powerlifting and how powerlifting flows in different priorities and how to balance lifting, friends, being a father and more! Tune in as we give you the keys to finding how...

In this episode of Chalk My Back! We get to hear Anas's journey with the beginning of powerlifting and what motivates him now being a pro powerlifter. Anas gives us the origin details as to what first got him into lifting, what he thought of the layout of powerlifting as he started and how the community has evolved ever since he began. Josh and Abe also ask him questions along the way in terms...

In this episode of Chalk My Back! We take you guys through the first of our three part series into a more personal dive into our journey with powerlifting and how it has changed throughout the various stages of our life. Josh talks about the beginning of how he first started powerlifting and how it helped shape his personal and life goals the more and more he found ways to integrate powerlifting i...

In this episode, the boys have been steady busy with lots of handling and helping lifters in their own aspects as in this episode we give you guys an update as to what we've been up to. Anas starts us off with giving a quick recap as to how his lifter Michelle did at her meet in Austin and what some of the takeaways are as a coach to work on with improving her performance come time for Raw Nat...

In this episode of Chalk My Back! Josh and Anas recap the days that they were at collegiate nationals here in Arlington. Anas who was coaching a few of his lifters as well as others recaps the day and how his lifters did and what the take away was with how the meet was run and how his overall experience was. Josh also gives his experience of being the Technical Controller during his session and so...

In this episode of Chalk My Back! We get down to discussing Collegiate Nationals as this weekend it is being held in Arlington Texas! Josh talks about what he's gonna be doing to help out and we see if Anas and Abe have athletes competing or if Anas still hates collegiate nationals. Abe talks memes in the fitness world and how his feed is populated with nothing but shirtless, suspect, videos o...

In this episode of Chalk My Back! We get to hear Josh's meet recap and return to the platform after 4 years. We discuss training leading up to the meet and and Josh was able to do to come back to the platform strong and ready and the strategies he used to get him meet ready. Anas and Josh have an in depth conversation as to how his blocks and training were structured and what other lifters can...

In this episode of Chalk My Back! we review and cover the IPF Sheffield Powerlifting Championships which was the biggest payout meet in IPF history! We give you our takes and go over some of the highlights of meet and what the boys thought overall of the meet. Also this past weekend Josh attended the Clash of the Barbarians meet and Forth Worth to help out a friend for meet day handling and he giv...

In this episode of Chalk My Back! We get to have a chat with Anas about his most recent performance at the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus and how he felt about this meet. Anas gives us the breakdown about how he felt throughout prep and what he expected to hit at the Arnold versus the meet day performance. He gives us the details behind his weight cut, attempt selection, and overall readiness...

In this episode we cover some of the biggest upcoming meets such as the Sheffield which is going to be one of the biggest IPF money meets of the year! Anas also gives us a quick update of his almost finished prep for the Arnold and what he plans to try and hit and his plans for this upcoming meet. The boys talk about the most recent Nationals that happened in Austin Texas being Powerlifting Americ...

In this episode of Chalk My Back! We have on our long time friend Calvin come on the podcast and talk to us about his most recent trip to Korea with his girlfriend Mae. He discusses the many facets of Korean culture that differs than American culture and highlights some of the differences with lifting culture as well. He also talks about how he trained at a powerlifting gym Train True and gave us...

In this episode of Chalk My Back the boys have a chat about potentially holding a meet this year? Would you guys be interested in having more competitions in the DFW area hosted by your favorite podcast? Also we cover Anas's brief thoughts going into the Arnold this year and what some of his base expectations are. Along with the topics of gyms, we also take a dive into commerical gyms and how they...

In this episode of Chalk My Back! We take a slight detour in the guest that we usually have one and bring on something that we've never had on before; ChatGPT! That's right, your favorite fitness cigarette podcast is getting some AI help to make content for this episode and we take a deep dive into whether on not AI could replace powerlifting in the form of programming, coaching, and even doing so...

In this episode we cover the most recent drama unfolding within the USPA federation. We go over all the research instagram videos and non speculative information to give you guys our non biased completely fact based opinion! Also since we are now transitioning to becoming a news podcast we give you guys the most breaking news with Anas's new business venture. Can you hire him to come guest lift at...

In this episode of Chalk My Back! we're back for the 2023 year with some new ideas and shirts in the works for you the CMB gang as we kick off this year with getting to know what the boys are deciding to do for new year goals. We learn a little bit more about Anas and his mysterious family and what he plans to do outside of powerlifting, Josh gives us his numbers goal for the new year and what he...

In this episode of Chalk My Back! We give you guys a two for one meet recap of the meets that have been happening the past two weeks in Texas! The boys have been busy as Anas has been coaching his athletes from the TSS Open in San Antonio all the way to Josh helping Salma with her first meet at the North Garland Classic. We give you guys the behind the scene details and what we thought of the meet...

In this episode of Chalk My Back! we have Morgan Aquino come on the pod to discuss his latest meet and chop it up with the boys! Morgan gives us his perspective over SoCal powerlifting and how much it has grown since he started competing in the sport. We talk lifting origin stories and how he met Anas at nationals and how he solidified himself as one of the top 66kg/67.5kg lifters in the nation. A...