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Jerzy Gregorek

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  1. “They messed up ACLs and all the knees and usually today volleyball players, women especially, they have these problems. It is important that athletes are training in the gym and in the gym they are more intense than actually in the games. If that happens, they cannot be injured simply because they have reserve, right? So flexibility first, then certain strength is needed, right? And then certain speed and posture is important here. So the spine is flexible and the spine is healthy because spine is really the gateway to health of the legs. So if there's any inflammation, any pressure between the vertebrae will have pain, sorenesses and so on.”

    2017-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #228: The Lion of Olympic Weightlifting, 62-Year-Old Jerzy Gregorek (Also Featuring: Naval Ravikant) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “You are flexible all everywhere. So if you have any, you need any reserves of flexibility, you will have. So that's why today a lot of athletes are injured because in the training, they don't have flexibility. So let's say volleyball players, they do half squad, but not full. But if in the game In any situation where they jump or they do something requires more flexibility than they do in the training, they'll get the injured.”

    2017-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #228: The Lion of Olympic Weightlifting, 62-Year-Old Jerzy Gregorek (Also Featuring: Naval Ravikant) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “Well, you know, yeah. So I thought that people really have to have some independence, that they have to take responsibility for what they would do. And they would need to be connected to the program, whatever the program is, right? So I thought, okay, we need to detach myself from them and I need to create something that they could follow has to be measurable, has to have everything what they would need in their life from the program to have a good life forever, right? So what is that? How a person needs to be? Well, definitely flexibility came boom first, right? So you have to have flexibility. Have to have full flexibility. So if something happens in life, you cannot be injured.”

    2017-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #228: The Lion of Olympic Weightlifting, 62-Year-Old Jerzy Gregorek (Also Featuring: Naval Ravikant) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “All right, let's go into the story. It happened around 25 years ago when I was in the gym. And it was like, you know, a personal trainer in LA. And I coach people daily. And seven days a week. And they still would not get what I wanted. They would not follow the program.”

    2017-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #228: The Lion of Olympic Weightlifting, 62-Year-Old Jerzy Gregorek (Also Featuring: Naval Ravikant) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “Well, I have four weightlifting championship world. And my national records, I sent you the link. My national records that I set up in US in 1999, I think, they're still there. So there are two of them. So 17 years nobody beat them.”

    2017-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #228: The Lion of Olympic Weightlifting, 62-Year-Old Jerzy Gregorek (Also Featuring: Naval Ravikant) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “I didn't do gymnastics when I was in Poland, I wanted to be a gymnast, but there was no gymnastic team around. So there was nowhere to go to learn that. But I really love gymnastics. I did all this stuff by myself on grass somewhere, you know, and I really loved that.”

    2017-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #228: The Lion of Olympic Weightlifting, 62-Year-Old Jerzy Gregorek (Also Featuring: Naval Ravikant) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “You can imagine that he can do anything in his life. Really doesn't matter. He can ski, he can do golf, whatever, because that is the most difficult really movement on this planet. And he can do it. So he will be doing this probably 84 and 94, whatever it is. He's really fantastic quality life. He's in front of him.”

    2017-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #228: The Lion of Olympic Weightlifting, 62-Year-Old Jerzy Gregorek (Also Featuring: Naval Ravikant) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “High, yeah. So, you know, the lifter that pulls the bar, the lowers is the best one. So the gap between when you sit in a snatch position and how high the bar is pulled, thrown up is that gap that says it tells us how good weightlifter is. So that should be about four inches, five inches. But people have 10 inches, they just waste a lot of, so they are not really great lifters. And then they compensate a lot. And if they improve that, it would be better. So we are coming back to our 74-year-old. So his gap is about five inches. He's fast, he's 74, and he comes and he stands here. And he says, you know, I've been coming here for 10 years. I was 64 when I came. And then he adds, you know, and I am 74 and I am a lot better than I was 64. Actually, I couldn't do this when I was in 20s. So he's 74 and he does full capability snatch.”

    2017-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #228: The Lion of Olympic Weightlifting, 62-Year-Old Jerzy Gregorek (Also Featuring: Naval Ravikant) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “But you're already down there to block it, to receive it, if you're very fast. So the speed becomes really important here. So when you're really fast, you can do that. But that is before you do the snatch. When you do that, really great, then your snatch is the next one. So the bar comes now in the front of you, in the hip joint, and you holding it in front of you. Now you jump three times, but the third one, you let the bar go and you go under and you block. And you have to be very fast to block and not to overpull. So I have to coach somebody not to overpull. That's why I came out with these free jumps. So you do jump one, two, and three, you go under. So you don't focus on. Overpooling the bar.”

    2017-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #228: The Lion of Olympic Weightlifting, 62-Year-Old Jerzy Gregorek (Also Featuring: Naval Ravikant) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “Yeah, it's a kind of like combination of the jerk when you have the bar on the neck and you jump slightly and then you do two jumps so the two jumps are the way as the third one is so you don't exaggerate on the third one is on purpose that way So, you learn not to overdo. So, when the third jump happens, you jump up, but you go down to the full squat and you receive the bar there. So that's the snatch drop kind of jerk combination and the snatch. It's the first approach, dynamic approach to develop the capability to the snatch. Once you have that nailed, really good, perfect, right? So then you bring the bar to the snatch drop from that point. It means the bar is on your back, you don't jump, you snap down and block. So if you're really good on that, the bar lowers down itself slightly like one to inches.”

    2017-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #228: The Lion of Olympic Weightlifting, 62-Year-Old Jerzy Gregorek (Also Featuring: Naval Ravikant) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “We've two hip replaced and no shoulder, so he was limited, but it didn't really matter at all. So I adapted to his problem and then made inch by inch his body better and more flexible. Once he was ready, then I started doing the snatch drops, dynamic movements when actually the bar flies a little bit. It's the first time.”

    2017-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #228: The Lion of Olympic Weightlifting, 62-Year-Old Jerzy Gregorek (Also Featuring: Naval Ravikant) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “Yeah, he was squat, you press, and you stand up. So that position requires complex flexibility because you have to be flexible in the ankles, you have to be flexible in your hips and hamstrings, and spine has to be arch. And so the shoulders are not really getting any pressure and the arms are straight up vertical. So it's not a beautiful movement. So if you do this movement, you can do anything in life. Squat press is a static movement. So it is not yet dynamic movement. And life sometimes requires from us dynamic movements, right? So about two years ago, I started working with him with dynamic movement. So it's about eight years. And then I brought him to this full capability, flexibility. One year old. In the place. Amazing. So”

    2017-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #228: The Lion of Olympic Weightlifting, 62-Year-Old Jerzy Gregorek (Also Featuring: Naval Ravikant) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “So he came here 10 years ago. He was 64. And he was in pain. He was fat. He was aged and not good. So I started simply working with him, putting him on a happy body program. And tried first to recover his flexibility. So his flexibility was my first aim. So in about a year, he gained all the flexibility and I brought him from 20 inches squatting on a bench to 19, 18 and 16 and 12. And finally he could do the whole thing. Then took about and he could do actually the movement.”

    2017-03-16 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #228: The Lion of Olympic Weightlifting, 62-Year-Old Jerzy Gregorek (Also Featuring: Naval Ravikant) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT