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Dr. Stefi Cohen

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“Yes, so it works, but it's not the best way. And I don't think that a lot of people are built to withstand that amount of beating. The way that I kind of modified that, combined my experience with, I guess, my academic training, which is I have a background in exercise physiology and I have my doctorate in physical therapy. I've been able to implement a little bit from practical with what the science says. So in terms of training to failure, there's a lot of controversy when it comes to what the minimal effective dose of training is. There's pretty much two separate camps, one that is all about accumulating volume, just doing very low, not very, but low load, high volume style training in hopes of sparing your body, your tissues, and decreasing your injury risk. And then there's the other one.”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That was kind of my initial introduction into strength training. I kind of like picked up certain things from that and also learned why they might not be the best. Essentially, people in Bulgaria, Russia, the system to find the best athletes is a little bit different than it is here. Basically, you know, they're putting a lot of people through extremely rigorous training. And the people that you see succeed are very few. I'm talking about zero point, zero, zero, zero, one percent of all the kids that they put through these training programs make it through. So it's like you either thrive under those conditions or you break.”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I come from an Olympic weightlifting background. I trained most of my, I guess I did Olympic weightlifting for about four years and it was mainly Bulgarian style lifting. I don't know if you're familiar with that, but that just involves daily maxes is what you call daily maxes. So obviously the amount that you can lift in every session is going to vary based on just your nervous system readiness, how tired you are, how well you recovered from the previous sessions. But ultimately, what you're trying to do is lift as much as you can in any one particular session.”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would start by looking at your form, looking at your technique, and seeing if there's anything there that I can improve, you know, things like bringing your feet with in, maybe changing your hand position, improving the angle of your torso, maybe looking at your starting position. I would start there. And obviously like programming is the biggest factor to look at as well, just how, whether or not you're implementing progressive overload into your training, how hard are you training? Are you going to failure? There's many, many variables that we can look at.”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When it comes to powerlifting, you can want it all you want. You can work as hard as you want. But because it's such a specialized sport, having the right attributes for the sport is even more important. So for example, say you want to be, I don't know, a football player. There's many positions within football that might be in line with what your current skills and abilities are. And you might actually be able to outwork your way into a pro team by gaining more speed, by being stronger, by being able to cut sharper, by, I don't know, you know, you can gain an advantage in so many different areas or categories within the skills that you need to succeed in football. Whereas in powerlifting, there's really not much. You either have the capability to get stronger or you don't. And you either have the proportions to be able to move the bar in the most efficient way.”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Are you going to say? Yeah, I think that the more specialized, you know how people, what's that saying? Hard work beats Talon when Talon doesn't work hard? Okay, yeah. That's saying I'm really bad at memorizing sayings and quotes, but you know what I mean.”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's genetics, right? Some people can train so hard. Some people can train the exact same way as Edco and maybe have him as a coach and never achieve half of what he achieved or never lift a quarter of how much Ed lifted. And I think a big part of it is your proportions, your leverages. And then when we get into genetics as well, muscle fiber type composition, your ability to learn new skills, et cetera.”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the main thing has to do with its physics, with leverage. You know, if you see people, some people are really gifted when it comes to proportions. I think I'm one of them. I think that really makes a difference when it comes to being able to break that two, three, four, five times body weight mark is your leverages, your proportions. There is a guy, I believe it's in the USAPL who man, he has a really odd in terms of proportions looking body. He has a very short, extremely short torso and he has super long arms. And when he locks out the deadlift, it just seems like the barbell moves just a few inches off the ground. And I'm pretty sure that guy's done five times body weight. I'm pretty sure you would have to fact check me on that.”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Deadlift, there's not much to it, there's a bar on the floor and the goal is to Think it's one of the most impressive feats of strength, and I think universally speaking, like people consider that the ultimate test of strength. That's why it's so celebrated. There's two methods of debt lifting. You can either have a conventional style of deadlift, which is with your hands outside of your feet. And then there's the opposite, which is the sumo deadlift, where your hands are inside or within your feet. And that's it as far as what the deadlift is.”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, he had just laid out in advance. He had a top-down approach to training. He kind of like reversed engineered his program. So he would say, okay, so if I want to deadlift 700 pounds, that means that I have to be able to deadlift 650 for three, which means that I have to do 625 for 5. And then he would reverse engineer from there, which I think is really interesting.”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The resiliency his body has and his ability to just tolerate beating his body down with weights is remarkable. It really is. So he's a specimen.”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Closer to your goals or pushing you in the right direction is unbelievable. You know, I've spoken to Ed extensively about his mindset and about what some of his training theories were in his training methods. He pretty much just said that he, I asked him if he ever stopped making progress. And he said, no. He said, anytime my progress would slow down, I would go in and really take a look at what areas of weaknesses I had and I would tackle them with the same intensity that I tackle my on season or like seasons where you're preparing for a powerlifting meet. And he would repeat that over and over and over again. Obviously, look, Ed is not from this world, man. Like that guy, his body.”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Man, Ed is known as the greatest powerlifter of all time. He has that he's earned that title. He's been given that title by pretty much everyone within the powerlifting community. And I think what separates him from everyone else is just how consistently he was able to show up and perform at his best throughout the years. I don't know how many years he competed, maybe 20 years, which is crazy. Anyone who's ever attempted to get stronger, any person who's listening to this, just try training for more than two years. When progress starts slowing down, when you start coming into the gym and feeling like crap and not able to perform your best, you start accumulating injuries and, you know, it takes years for you to see even a five pound increment in any of the lifts, just the amount of mental fortitude, mental strength that you have to have in order to just keep showing up and hoping that what you're doing is taking you.”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Same story, exactly. And yeah, outside of that, I've broken, I guess, 25 world records in powerlifting in three different weight classes. I've cut down all the way from 135 pounds all the way down to 114 broken squat deadlift and total world records there. broken a few year world records in the 123 class and then some in the 132 class i have also the highest deadlift in that class as well”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I guess I'll speak of the most monumental ones or the most historic ones. So I was the first woman to deadlift, I guess, four times my body weight first at a power lifting company.”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I landed in Miami. This is actually a funny story. I was so upset that my mom convinced me to move. And we were in the shuttle at the airport at the Miami International Airport. And I was just crying hysterically. Like if you didn't know what was happening, you could have sworn that my mom was kidnapping me or something. I was so mad, maybe not mad at my mom, but mad at the situation, mad that I was forced to leave my country, mad that I had it all. I was a really good soccer player. I was the team captain of the national team. I had a name for myself there. And I just felt like I was forced out of my country and forced to start over. And it wasn't my decision. It wasn't the route that I really wanted to take. Like I wanted to stay there with my friends, with my family, with my soccer team. Calm down in Miami. And then I went to San Diego. That's where I wanted to, or initially I got into school.”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When you live in such a sheltered environment, stepping outside of that kind of comfort zone is terrifying. It makes you feel really vulnerable and afraid, I guess. So I was 17 when I moved out of Venezuela and it was tough because at that time, like I said, we were still optimistic that things could get better. So it almost felt like I was giving up on my country. I'm very patriotic about my country. So, you know, I'm assuming like a lot of people are when you grow up in a country, you develop emotions and sentiment towards the place that you grew up that gave you everything. I felt like I was giving up on my country and felt bad for a little bit. But then the country just continued to trend downwards into what it is today, which is absolutely awful and 20 times worse than what it was when I left 10 years ago.”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When that all happened, and I guess Chavez got back into power somehow, even though he wasn't elected by the people. At that time, it was very clear to me and my family that there was just not going to be anything that could save that country, right? Like the wrong people are in power and the wrong people will seemingly continue to be in power and there's nothing that anybody can do. I actually was one of the first of kind of my circle of friends to venture out of the country and make the decision to move out of the country. It was a time where, you know, people were still a little bit optimistic. There were elections coming up again. There were some things to look forward to, but my mom didn't want to take the risk and she was actually the one that encouraged me to apply for a scholarship in the US and to make the decision to move, which was very difficult, especially given that, you know, how I said that.”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When you don't know anything better, that just kind of becomes your norm, right? When you grow up in an environment that's a certain way, you just grow up to accept that that's just, I guess, how the world works. So very sheltered, you know, you're always kind of spending time within the same groups, with the same people going to and from the same places, not really like socializing much outside of that. You live in your little kind of crystal ball, essentially. And at the time, I think this was 1998 or 2002. I can't remember which one of those elections was when there was a civil war, Chavez, the president at that time, didn't win the elections and there was this huge civil war. A ton of people died. My dad was in the protest. I went to the protest. It was very graphic. It was very interesting time to live and very interesting experience as well. And I guess that's when...”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't have many memories of Venezuela as a peaceful, tranquil, friendly country. When I was already growing up, when I was 10, 12, the country started getting pretty dangerous. There was a lot of political and economical unrest. There was a lot of divide between social classes. There was a lot of corruption, dictatorship disguised as a socialist government. Growing up there is very differently than anything in any other country, really, like talking about bulletproof cars. I'm talking about bodyguards, talking about, you know, the fear of constant fear anytime you get out of your house to either be kidnapped, either be shot, either be armed robbed, either be, I don't know, taken into your house and getting everything stolen from you. So it's a very kind of high stress, high alert way to live. And I guess.”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Ended up moving to the States looking for a soccer scholarship, moved to San Diego. And I guess I don't know how far you want me to go there, but...”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was born in Caracas, Venezuela, to South America. I was born, I'm a Venezuelan Jew, so I was born in a very traditional household. In most of my childhood, I spent playing soccer. I played soccer for the national Venezuelan soccer team, which sounds a lot more impressive than what it actually was like. There was not a lot of funding from the government for professional sports back home. kind of played in dirt fields we played in a field that was located at the military base which was interesting traveling in the inner parts of the country was super eye-opening for me given that i come from a more kind of like sheltered family environment you know my dream with soccer was always to get into a d1 team or play professional soccer i really wanted to play professionally in in any capacity for a long time”
2021-01-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #491: Dr. Stefi Cohen — 25 World Records, Power Training, Deadlifting 4.4x Bodyweight, Sports Psychology, Overcoming Pain, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT