Mission Statement for the Gifted Performance Podcast: Self-deprecation over everything. The goal is to stay humble by bringing on the biggest and strongest folks on the planet. This week....oh this week....we lived up to our creed.
We brought along our head powerlifting coach @tomas_neal and powerlifting PT @miketaylordpt to learn the secrets of this week's guest Ashton Rouska @wreck_it_rouska. Ashton has been on an absolute tear lately and you may be as shocked as we were when you hear his goals for the next few years. It was an honor sitting down and chopping it up with the USAPL Wonder Boy himself. I
f you don't know who Ashton is, visit his Instagram profile, sit back, and enjoy. Coming off of a huge meet, we obviously talked numbers but the discussion was so much more. Topics discussed include:
2:29 - Ashton Rouska: A Well Seasoned Traveler
13:02 - The last meet, a record breaking performance, and feeling “pretty average”
21:19 - Ashton’s training philosophy: healthy, wealthy, and skrong
30:36 - Training for hypertrophy within powerlifting, weight gain, and the effect on Ashton’s total
39:05 - An Unintentional Advertisement for Promised Land Chocolate Milk
44:19 - How Ashton continues progressing while managing graduate school, military obligations, and training
55:24 - Ashton’s plans for 2021 and beyond
