x1@8 Podcast

This week, the x1@8 podcast takes over @CalgaryBarbell's twitch stream to discuss the legacy of Westside Barbell, how your social situation situation affects your strength gains and which athletes we would most like to recruit from other sports. Follow Bryce: @bryce_cbb Follow Alex: @peejskwaats Follow the show: @x1at8

This week, Bryce Lewis returns to the show to discuss why we have such an easy time lying to ourselves about our training, where these biases come from and how to know if you are falling victim to one of them. link to the Stronger by Science article cited in this video: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/5-ways-we-sabotage-success-with-cognitive-biases/ Follow Bryce: @bryce_tsa Follow Peej: @peejsk...

This week, Peej is joined by USA Team Coach Arian Khamesi to discuss recent changes in the USAPL competition calendar, how to hold competitions in a post-pandemic world and ways in which powerlifting competitions could be improved in the future. Really sorry about my audio on this episode guys! My laptop was finishing a huge render while we were recording so you can hear the fan noise. Hope it isn...

This week, Alex and Owen react to some of the recent noise in the endless 'excessive arching' debate before getting distracted and disappearing down several tangents as usual. Follow Owen:  @ohubb Follow Alex: @peejskwaats Follow the show: @x1at8

This week, Alex and Bryce discuss their changing relationship to lifting over the years, how lifting is like marriage, and Peej's retirement plan. Follow Bryce: @bryce_cbb Follow Peej: @peejskwaats Follow the show: @x1at8 

This week, the boys are joined by Taylor Shadgett of Calgary Barbell to discuss training backgrounds, habit forming and how not to fail out of your new years resolutions in the first few days. Follow Taylor: @taylor_cbb Follow Peej: @peejskwaats Follow the show: @x1at8

This week, Alex and Owen get up to speed on some recent goings on in the world of strength sports, chat about new weight classes, more weightlifting scandals, the World Games and some epic garage gym lifting. Follow Owen: @ohubb Follow Peej: @peejskwaats Follow the Show: @x1at8

This week, Alex and Bryce discuss the ever-increasing role of technology in strength training, speculate where that might lead in future and how that could change their approach to lifting. Follow Bryce: @bryce_cbb Follow Peej: @peejskwaats Follow the show: @x1at8

This week, Alex and Bryce take a look at some of their least favourite aspects of online powerlifting discourse and discuss what can be done to address them. Follow Bryce @bryce_cbb Follow Peej @peejskwaats Follow the Show @x1at8

This week, the boys are joined by NZ Powerlifting legend Brett Gibbs to discuss how to build a better relationship with the bar, drug testing and potential dangers to the future of the sport. Follow Brett: @brettgibbz Follow Owen: @Ohubb Follow Peej: @peejskwaats

This week, the boys are joined by All-American Powerlifting Phenomenon Austin Perkins to chat about this massive 800KG total at 72.1KG bodyweight, training raw + equipped at the same time and whether apple sauce is the secret to massive gains. Follow Austin @perkstrong74kg Follow Owen: @ohubb Follow Peej: @peejskwaats Check out Stronger Than Before: Austin Perkins on Youtube: https://youtu.be/wwMU...

This week, Alex is joined by Josh and Zac from Data Driven Strength to unlock new levels of powerlifting nerd talk and discuss how to make low-intensity gains. Follow DDS: @datadrivenstrength Follow Peej: @peejskwaats Follow the show: @x1at8

This week, the boys get nerdy with an in-depth discussion of training sensitivity, volume vs intensity and metaphysical powerlifting with Bryce Lewis and Joe Stanek of The Strength Athlete.  Follow Peej: @peejskwaats Follow Bryce: @bryce_tsa Follow Joe: @joe_tsa

This week, the boys confront the grim prospect of another lockdown in 2020 while reflecting on what they learned during the first one. Follow Owen - @ohubb Follow Peej - @peejskwaats Follow the show - @x1at8

This week, the boys try to figure out how hard you should train. How do you find good reference points? How to avoid sandbagging? Are velocity trackers useful? After that, we're joined by very strong and ripped boi BRIAN MINOR to discuss this topic more in depth. Follow Brian: @bdminor Follow Peej: @peejskwaats Follow the show: @x1at8

This week, Alex and Bryce get deep into one of the trickiest obstacles in any sport - Imposter Syndrome. Listen to hear why Bryce thinks finishing #4th at Worlds isn't quite good enough, why coaching elite level athletes exposes your insecurities and why you should never, ever work for free. Follow Bryce @bryce_cbb Follow Peej: @peejskwaats Follow the show: @x1at8

This week, the boys are talking about injury, how to deal with it well, how to deal with it poorly, and how to avoid dealing with it at all. After that we are joined by Quinn Hennoch of Clinical Athlete bring some proper expertise to the conversation. Follow Quinn @quinnhennochdpt Follow Peej @peejskwaats Follow the show @x1at8

This week, the boys continue their series examining training mentality, this time bringing you a special VOLUME EDITION. How do you get through 7x7 sets of Bench? What can powerlifters learn from meatheads? Is it possible to enjoy the pain? DM us to request rants from Peej: x1at8 Follow Peej: @peejskwaats Follow Owen: @ohubb

This week, the boys reunite to answer your lifting questions. Is Owen the IPF's #1 loser? Did Bryce invent chicken shakes? Will Peej ever be able to quit bumpers? Listen to find out. Follow Bryce: @bryce_cbb Follow Owen: @ohubb Follow Peej: @peejskwaats

This week, the boys welcome IPF World Champion Natalie Hanson to the show and continue their discussion of body image as it relates to powerlifting, weight classes and overall wellbeing.  Follow Natalie: @natalie.907 Follow Peej: @peejskwaats Follow the show: @x1at8

This week, the boys welcome Canadian Powerlifting Coach Avi Silverberg to the show to discuss more international cancellations, good competing habits for beginners and when not to listen to your coach. Follow Avi: @everydayavi Follow Owen: @ohubb Follow Peej: @peejskwaats Follow the show: @x1at8

This week, the boys return with part one of an in-depth discussion of body image as it relates to strength sports. Helping combat our general ignorance is Loughborough PHD candidate and Powerlifter Luisa Vargas who patiently answered all of our dumb questions on this thorny issue. If you have any follow up questions about this topic feel free to DM us @x1at8 on Instagram and we'll discuss the...

This week, the boys begin by discussing what they intend to do with the remaining months of 2020 before getting distracted and disappearing down several tangents as usual. Follow Peej: @peejskwaats Follow Owen: @ohubb Follow the show: @x1at8

This week, the boys team up for a game of Would You Rather which gets pretty weird pretty fast.  Follow Bryce @bryce_cbb Follow Owen @ohubb Follow Peej @peejskwaats

This week, the boys welcome Suzanne Daniel back to the podcast to discuss the misery of commercial gyms, big chungus diets and when is best to shit yourself at a competition.  Follow Suzanne: @suzannelifts Follow Owen: @ohubb Follow Peej @peejskwaats