Minimum Strength

The Third Attempt

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Real conversations with real lifters. The Third Attempt is a podcast by Minimum Strength where we sit down with powerlifters, coaches, and the people shaping strength culture in India. No scripts, no hype. Just honest stories about what it takes to show up, put in the work, and keep coming back. Because the sport deserves to be heard, and the people in it deserve to be seen.

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Two Rivals. One Weight Class. One Week Left - Harish & Parth Before 93kg Nationals 23.03.2026 1:25:14

Every national record in 93kg is in play at Senior Nationals next week. Bogam Harishkumar, 11-year veteran and 2x champion at 83, is moving up. Parth Mehta, 24, pulled 329 at Junior Nationals on an attempt he didn't choose. Both sit down one week before they compete against each other.

Inside India's Biggest Powerlifting Nationals with Pradeep Kumar 16.03.2026 57:04

Pradeep Kumar quit a 25K bank job at HDFC to become a trainer at Talvarkar's for 7K a month. His family stopped talking to him. He trained clients morning and evening, worked out at Balanjaneya Gymnasium during the day, and kept getting eliminated from nationals for five years straight. Now he's a 6x Strongman of Karnataka, Commonwealth gold medalist, and the guy organizing India's big...

The Former Fat Kid, The Cricketer, and 93kg Ft. Varun & Prashanth 10.03.2026 55:57

Varun went from state-level cricket to a 630kg total. Prashanth lost 50kg, bounced through endurance sports and calisthenics, and landed on a platform pulling 280. Both train at Minimum Strength. Both stopped program-hopping. In our first episode, Azeez and Suvojit sit down with two lifters who took very different roads to the same squat rack. They talk coaching under Kaushal and Pankaj, what dist...