Charlie Dickson is the 2018 International Powerlifting Federations’ 83kg Junior World Champion. He’s also a Doctor of Physical Therapy with an educational and professional background that gives him unique insight into training at an elite level. Charlie joins the BarBend Podcast to talk about training frequency and intensity misconceptions, his surprising approach to warm-ups, and the active powerlifters he most admires in the sport.
In this episode of the BarBend Podcast, David Thomas Tao talks to Charlie Dickson about:
- Charlie’s current training goals (1:50)
- With events postponed, the chance to move up or down in weight classes; is Charlie taking advantage? (3:30)
- Which came first: Charlie’s interest in strength sports or physical therapy? (6:16)
- Charlie’s work with Barbell Medicine (8:31)
- When lifters ramp up intensity TOO quickly (11:00)
- Finding an exercise program that supports consistency (13:00)
- Recovering from injury and approaching prehab/rehab as both a powerlifter and physical therapist (including a focus on the Nordic hamstring curl) (16:38)
- Charlie’s approach to powerlifting warmups (18:35)
- Adapting to volume and intensity tolerance as a lifter (22:42)
- Athletes in powerlifting Charlie admires most (24:30)
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