Ep. 294 - All Around Lifting: The First Form of Competitive Lifting (with Drs. Conor Heffernan & Cliff Harvey)
Iron Culture
The MASS Crew
4.8 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Weightlifting came before powerlifting, but did you know weightlifting wasn’t exactly the first barbell sport? Or rather, did you know that the first iteration of weightlifting was VERY different than what we see today in the Olympics? The history of weightlifting is fascinating, and in this episode of Iron Culture Drs Conor Heffernan and Cliff Harvey are back to share their experiences with, and the history of, All Around Lifting, the original barbell sport. With literally hundreds of potential lifts to compete in, All Around Lifters are barbell generalists rather than specialists, and both strong and versatile. Modern All Around meets are very similar to the original lifting competitions from the early 19th century before weightlifting centralised around the snatch, clean and jerk and clean and press (and eventually just the snatch and clean and jerk), and before modern strongman, powerlifting or CrossFit existed. While you may know Cliff Harvey as a nutrition researcher, he is also a former All Around world champion weightlifter and amateur historian. He shares his experience while Conor goes into the fascinating tale of how weightlifting began, and how modern All Around Lifting recaptures it.
00:00 Omar? And All Around lifting?
02:10 Welcoming back Drs. Conor Heffernan and Cliff Harvey and where everything lifting started
07:01 The format and how to prepare for All Around Lifting
15:11 The attraction of All Around Lifting
24:40 A deep dive into the history of All Around
38:49 Specialisation vs generalisation and accessibility of All Around
55:05 ‘Evidence-based’ training and individualisation
1:05:28 Cliff’s experience competing
1:15:10 Reframing your perspective and goals as you progress and age
1:20:35 Where to learn more about (and participate in) All Around Lifting and closing out
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Omar? |
| 0:01.0 | Oh, apologies, folks. |
| 0:06.0 | Today it is just me with two esteemed guests. |
| 0:10.0 | I guess I'm just rolling solo on the hosting side, but that's fine because we actually have |
| 0:17.0 | someone atop the obelisk who I'm shouting at and we've also allowed a returning guest, |
| 0:22.9 | one of the originals who was on the show in the early days, Cliff Harvey, who actually survived |
| 0:29.7 | an in-person episode where he was physically there with Danny Lennon. And we've got hearts from |
| 0:35.8 | Connor. For those who have been following the show for a long time, |
| 0:39.8 | you know that, well, my lawyers would advise me to say |
| 0:45.0 | that I should not say what I'm about to say. |
| 0:47.6 | So on advisement from my lawyers, |
| 0:50.5 | I'm only going to say what I'm going to say, |
| 0:52.7 | which is, Cliff, I'm glad you're still here, |
| 0:56.2 | and that that episode concluded with everyone being alive, which included Danny Lennon, |
| 1:02.8 | and I'll leave it at that. But nonetheless, last time you were here, we talked about carbohydrates. |
| 1:09.1 | Connor, last time you were here, I don't remember, you're on here a lot, but I guarantee you it was about history. We talked about carbohydrates. Connor, last time you were here, I don't remember, you're on here a lot, but I guarantee you it was about history. |
| 1:14.6 | We talked about lifting. You're a historian. |
| 1:16.6 | So we're not actually going to do what people think, which would be the history of carbohydrates. |
| 1:22.6 | No, no, no. |
| 1:23.6 | We are actually talking about another cool topic, which people don't even know that they don't |
| 1:28.7 | know about, and now they're going to know about it, which they didn't know, and that is |
| 1:32.8 | all around lifting. So, folks, if you thought that it was just powerlifting, weightlifting, |
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