In this week's episode, Bain, who works in the logistics industry, interviews Stone about the logistics of running powerlifting meets, something Stone has been doing for over 15 years now. Stone goes through how he got started running meets, how he chooses the type of meet and location, how he goes about scheduling staff, how he handles registrations, and some of the financial implications of running meets.
Dec 26, 2019•1 hr 45 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Bain and Stone go "down in the DMs" this episode, and discuss female lifters' experiences and interactions with social media. Included is a reading of selected DMs from some of 2XL female members, a review of the differences in uses of social media between men and women, and some thoughts on the psychology of sending DMs.
Dec 18, 2019•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 14
This week, Bain and Stone conduct their first interview, talking extensively with WPO President, Wayne Pullum. He serves as the APF Vice President, is a WPC International Referee, and competed in powerlifting for 30+ years. He most recently competed at the 2014 WPC Worlds, successfully lifting 600 / 418 / 534 in the 181# mult-ply masters 55-59 class. Back in 2018, he re-started the World Powerlifting Organization, the professional arm of the APF/WPC Pullum discusses the process of re-starting th...
Dec 10, 2019•1 hr 44 min•Season 1Ep. 13
This week Bain and Stone review and give their insight on some of the popular powerlifting programs they have experience with, including 5/3/1, 10/20/Life, the Frantz system, the Maroscher version of the Frantz system, and "Westside" / conjugate among others. Additionally, they both give background on the differenent programs they have followed, and have seen at the gyms they have trained at.
Dec 04, 2019•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 12
In a change in format, this week Bain and Stone toss around the idea of geared / equipped lifting. Stone takes the contrary view from his own that "geared lifting is cheating," while Bain, the RAW lifter, defends the use of powerlifting equipment. After a back on forth on the usual geared lifting arguements, they end going over all the pros and cons of each.
Nov 27, 2019•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 11
Taking their usual "[Blank] is BS!" short segment, Stone and Bain will expand this topic into an entire episode. Stone will explain his frequent rant around the gym that singe ply equipment (squat suits / bench shirts) is BS. Bain and Stone will dive into a comparison of single ply gear of today vs. the multi ply gear of yesterday, and will reveal some pretty stark numbers on the possible number of divisions in a powerlifting meet.
Nov 19, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 10
In this week's episode, Stone and Bain cover their most controversal subject to date, transgender individuals' participation in powerlifting. Stone starts by examining the history of IOC rulings related to trans athletes' participation in the Olympics, as well as the high profile cases of trans athletes in powerlifting. From there, they both attempt to lay out the fundamental questions related to trans athletes competing in powerlifting, and how that might be handled.
Nov 12, 2019•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 9
In this week's episode, Bain and Stone debut their new segment called "What's BS." From there, Stone goes through a short history of many of the popular powerlifting federations in the United States, especially those he has had personal experience with in the Chicago-area. Bain and Stone then discuss the reasons they believe there are so many powerlifting organizations, if they believe it is or is not a problem, and if anything can or should be "done" about this "alphabet soup" of federations....
Nov 05, 2019•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In this week's episode, Stone and Bain talk about their experiences being a part of the Chicago Strength Expo, WPC CanAm, and WPO Finals. Stone talks about how the WPO came to Chicago and how it lead to the creation of the Chicago Strength Expo. They both talk about their experience as part of the TV production that was the WPO, as well as talking about the lifting itself in the WPO, including Dave Hoff's historic 3102# total. They end with some high "strength and anger" talking about the "hater...
Oct 30, 2019•2 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Deciding to wait until after the WPO meet is over, Stone and Bain postphone their interview with Wayne Pullum, and talk this week about a huge suject in our culture at large, social media. They examine what powerlifting was like before social media, the positive and negatives of social media, as well as the impact on the sport of powerlifting. Send your feedback to the podcast by using #strengthanger for quesitons and/or comments.
Oct 22, 2019•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In this weeks episode, Bain starts by telling another story about how he CANNOT be called anything but "Robert" and/or "Bain" and gives his talks about his MC debut at the Rise of the Deadlift. Stone starts off with the BIG news that 2XL Powerlifting is moving 1/1/20 to a new, bigger location. From there, Bain and Stone give their review of the documentary "Westside vs. The World," which is now available on Netflix. Stone gives his "Good," "Bad" and "Ugly" from the film including some rare F-bom...
Oct 15, 2019•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this week's episode, Bain and Stone give their advice on how to pick, enter, and compete in your first powerlifting meet. Also included is a story at the end of the episode on when Stone was a "witness" to an "incident" at an Illinois State Meet where the police were called.
Oct 08, 2019•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 4
PIggy-backing off of last week's episode of the Rise of Raw Powerlifting, this week Stone and Bain discuss the history of supportive equipment in powerlifting (suits, shirts, wraps, etc.). Stone gives some insight as to when suits and shirts first started to appear with some information from long-time powerlifter Rickey Dale Crain of Crains Muscle World. From there, Bain and Stone both give their insight as to why they think equipped powerlifting could be making a comeback.
Oct 01, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In this week's episode, Stone and Bain talk about the rise of the "RAW" division in powerlifting. The "raw" division started to show up in the last 90s and early 2000s, but really took off right around 2010, and really picked up steam in 2014-2015. Stone runs through some statistics of the growth of the IL Raw Power Challenge meet from 2009 to current, as well as the Chicago Summer Bash from all equipped in 2004 to mostly raw in recent years. From there Bain and Stone both give their input on wh...
Sep 26, 2019•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 2
In this first episode of the Strength & Anger Podcast, co-host Eric Stone tells the origin story of "Strength and Anger," and both Stone and co-host Robert Bain give their stories on how they got started in the sport of powerlifting.
Sep 18, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Join APF Illinois State Chairman Eric Stone along with AAPF/AWPC Powerlifter Robert Bain starting Tuesday September 17 for the first full episode of the "Strength & Anger" Podcast. Here is a quick preview of the episode Bain and Stone attempted to record this past week...but didn't quite know what they were doing.
Sep 13, 2019•3 min
