Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of the ice cream for PR's podcast. My name is Jeff Nippard.

And joining me today, I have a special guest from Australia. His name is John Paul Kalki. Welcome to the show,

John. Hey, mate, how are you on? Thank you for having me. Yeah, it's my pleasure. Like I said, I really

appreciate you coming on the show.

So why don't you go ahead and tell our listeners a little bit about yourself, your training

background, your academic background, and I know you're a coach as well, so maybe you

can tell us a little bit about that too.

Yeah, sure.

So for those who might not know, I'm a competitive powerlifter.

So I haven't done any bodybuilding or anything like that, but I've competed in power

looking for a little while.

And like yourself, Jeff, I lift in the IPF, so the International Powerlifting Federation.

Here in Australia, it's the Powerlifting Australia, so I've got that T-shirt here.

Yeah, so I lived's the powerlifting Australia, so I've got that t-shirt here. Yeah, so I lived in the power lifting Australia, and I've been competing for a few years.

Now I'm 22, so I'm still the junior, but I have been lifting for a little while.

Before that, like through my youth, I guess, I did lots of, like, random stuff stuff so I did like a bit of track like

athletics played like Australian rules football which a lot of people might not

be familiar with but I did a whole bunch of that kind of stuff and I'm quite a

small person I'm not very tall I'm five foot three so I wasn't very good at

ball sports I wasn't very good at like running so then I kind of said, you know, I need to lift some weights.

I need to get stronger if I want to be competitive in kind of contact sports.

And then did a little bit of that and realized, hey, I'm better at lifting weights than I am

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