Weightlifter Aaron Williams discusses offseason workout with Chiefs LB
During his interview with @EdEastonJr, USA Weightlifter Aaron Williams discussed his recent offseason workout with Kansas City Chiefs LB Jack Cochrane
This week, Chiefs Wire's Ed Easton Jr. spoke with Team USA Weightlifter Aaron Williams. In his interview with Easton Jr.
, Williams discusses his recent offseason workout with Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jack Cochrane at USA Weightlifting's National Team Camp at the Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. He explained the connection between football training and weightlifting, sharing his experience with Cochrane. "There are definitely fewer reps.
Because in football, the way that our weight room was set up, it was, you know, just high energy. Get good reps in, pump your teammates up, just rah, rah, crazy, go at it, get as strong as you can. Weightlifting is just the same kind of intensity.
Still, it shifts a little bit towards the intention of just being precise and being efficient, rather than getting as strong as possible, repping out however many reps, and really just having a really, like, explosive environment inside of a weight room, which is, I mean, you can't really get that anywhere else. I've hit a lot of PRs with 40 other guys screaming at you," said Williams. "There's no way you can replicate that.