Weightlifting Dai: Recent Episodes
Weightlifting Dai
Jordan Sakkas and Mikey Farmer are 2 international lifters for Wales and Great Britain. They have been training together for the last 7 years and have been on an incredible journey so far. Both Mikey and Jordan have represented Great Britain and Wales on 15 different occasions combined, winning medals at Youth and Junior levels, they both recently competed at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
Along side their international honours they have multiple domestic achievements to their name. Both being multiple Welsh and British record holders with Jordan being a 2 x British Champion.
This week we discuss how the pace of training can affect your lifting and the environment you train in. Address our pet peeve of misloading the bar with your training partner, answer some viewer questions and finally review strip club reviews for no apparent reason.
This week we try and discuss the teams selected for the upcoming Commonwealth Championships being held in Dehli, India; before abandoning the discussion because weightlifting is boring. We delve into the merits of watching the Super weight classes vs the lightweights. We speculate on the causes of the missing submarine, add in a do not laugh challenge and ask a question troubling us, what is docking? And where is our nearest port?
This week our feature topic is how the new instagram trend of ice bathing is actually suppressing your bodies strength building ability, we move on to talk about our hatred for glorifying drug cheats in the sport of Weightlifting, we share some anecdotes about Donny Shankle and us as teenagers and finally discuss how to adapt your mental approach before a heavy lift.
This week's pod is a bit of a mixed bag of some really insightful info and a lot of bollocks... Stick with It, love you all lots x
This week we come to you live from Big Dog Coffee shop, where we delve into Caffeine consumption for weightlifting performance, Mikes unreasonable spin on weightlifting niches and some personal questions from our live audience at BDC.
This week we discuss the idea of prize money as incentives in British Weightlifting comps, delve into what the correct gym etiquette with shouting screaming etc. and we introduce a new weekly segment: Will Davies Sheds, Fencing and Timber conspiracy theories.
A lot has happened in the Weightlifting world the past week or so, we bring you the rumours circulating around clubs in the UK regarding a former GB weightlifter being arrested, tell you why the first Welsh Weightlifting Camp in 6 years was cancelled & delve into our feature topic, Coaching Red Flags.
P.S. sorry about the second half audio quality, It threw a wobbley
We're back for Season 2!
This week we discuss the perils of taking time of training, why old school weightlifters hate training, delve into the toxic world of online coaching, organise a Stag Do of British Weightlifters, we both list offensive names for those who take part in frequent coitus (for an unknown reason) and briefly ask why the Commonwealth Games Competition platform has been left in disrepair.
This week we unearth the two positive doping tests from the British Championships in 2022 and their implications to Olympic qualifying for GB athletes, discuss the recent Craig Richey scandal, before taking some viewer questions (like why does Mikey get no bitches?) and reading out some excellent pick up lines. All in a nights pod.We are WLD and we will see you every other MondayX
This week we discuss what our tips are for traveling to a Weightlifting Competition up until weigh in. We take part in a Don't laugh challenge where we tell 5 jokes each with the other host trying not to laugh, as well as design our perfect Rugby Union starting 15 out of Weightlifters in the UK.
Thanks for listening, plz come back
WLD X
In this week's episode we shoot the shit about our festive indulgence, discuss why masters weightlifting isn't funded like the Youth and Junior Set up, what annoys Mike about Instagram posts and speak about World Weightlifting poster boy being popped.
Thanks for the love, WLD X
This week we start the show with a listener question asking us "Competitive weightlifters such as yourselves seem to be less interested in discussing the big comps than recreational lifters who will non-stop discuss the Worlds ect. Why?", We then move on to the World Weightlifting Championships 2022 in Bogotá, Columbia which was 2 days in at the time of recording. We move on to speak about the recent Welsh Senior Championships, discussing anonymous statements made to us regarding the event. Around 30 mins in we bring on our feature guest, Team GB Weightlifting Physio Liam Rodgers who DAIled in (See what I did there) live from Bogotá, Columbia. Liam speaks about his role for Team GB in Bogotá, which is more than just being there for manual treatment. We then ask liam to provide the listeners at home with some key Physio exercises that we as weightlifters should be doing to get more kilos on the bar (Useful shit).
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Thanks for tuning in, we love you all
WLD x
This week we delve into when you should and shouldn't be using weightlifting straps during training, our thoughts on dating training partners in the gym, answer a number of viewer questions, including one that questions our ethnicity. We finish this Week's pod by listing the average attributes of a lifter in each of the homenations.
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This Week during a feature length pod; we discuss our thoughts on why you should be sharing a bar in training, things in instagram bios that make us cringe, aesthetically pleasing bar variations in competition, we play a game of Kiss Marry Kill with Weightlifting Clubs in the UK, Snog Marry Avoid- Team GB Coaches, a sneak peak of our first Single coming out soon! Our favourite Songs for training and an in depth conversation with Commonwealth Games Champion Chris Murray, discussing his recent international successes and his preparation for his first World Senior Championships.
Links to our favorite Training songs:
Snatch:
https://open.spotify.com/track/2a0fkN8dbA5Kh8SR7cvl3D?si=de13712a2d324bc9
https://open.spotify.com/track/40up5wCfwQXTDXyE18hJbJ?si=addfb919e3e143b3
C+J
https://open.spotify.com/track/2RkypFpFvnvkjKVjBPVXEs?si=e8c238f14e604f50
https://open.spotify.com/track/2MuWTIM3b0YEAskbeeFE1i?si=e0495ddc8dbb4619
https://open.spotify.com/track/31MOjWj3CT3dCQsMV2b8Wu?si=a02b76af0a444230
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An hour before recording this Week's Show, Mike and Jordan stumbled across an injured man outside the Pub; after a brief, yet informative interaction with 999 Jordan was called upon to give chest compressions to save this man's life, seriously.
The main topics of discussion this week include: The format for the WLD Open/Closed Team Weightlifting Deathmatch coming early 2023, A listener question, asking us to discuss why there is a lack of entries for the upcoming Welsh Senior Championships, some rumours circulating about WLD being invited to do a TV show, as well as discussing our thoughts on spectator etiquette at Weightlifting Competitions.
This Week we discuss how we propose to grow the sport of Weightlifting in the UK, what the Weightlifting DAI Open/ Closed competition will look like, Answer a very pertinent listener question, as well as tell a short story about our Lord and Saviour Chris Murray, who competed at the European Juniors in Albania last month alongside Podcast Co-Host Mike.
This is the first episode recorded and published alone by us, so hope you all enjoy! See you next Monday!
WLD X
In this episode we look to explore the things that really turn us off in the sport of weightlifting. This is the last podcast we recorded with producer Nick (may he rest in peace), so please look forward to our new venture from next weeks podcasts onwards. Every Monday!
In this weeks episode Jordy and Mikey discuss Ed Smale for PM, the Santavy brothers dress sense, as well as the daily struggles of trying to be a weightlifter in the real world
The Weightlifting Dai Podcast. The only weightlifting podcast that covers British Weightlifting.
00:00. Introduction
01:30. Jordan and Mike's injuries
03:30. Competition attire
15:00. Listener questions.
Today Jordy has a little bit of a rant as to what correct competition attire is. That and we answer your questions from our Instagram page.
Hosts: Nick Jones, Mikey Farmer and Jordan Sakkas
Jordan and Mike have spoken a lot about the athletes with the best attributes in the game, but on this podcast they cover they top attributes for coaches in a competition setting, there is many surprises with this topic.
Jordan and Mikey recently competed at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, they will both admit to themselves and to others that they are not happy with their performances. The entire event put into perspective for them what it is they want to do with their Weightlifting careers.
Jordan and Mike dedicate an entire podcast to commonwealth games champion and Lord of all things British Weightlifting, Chris Murray. They talk about the story of a regular competition under performing 2/6 lifter to the heights of Commonwealth games Champion.
Jordan and Mikey have finally joined forces and started a new Weightlifitng podcast. A lot happened over the weekend including the cancellation of the British Open which is discussed at great length including the fallout from the weightlifitng public and what it means for the athletes looking to qualify for the Celtic nations this October.