PRISONER NO MORE: The True Story of Tae Jin Park

Tim Ferriss · · 34 min

Tim Ferriss narrates the story of Tae Jin Park, a young man with cerebral palsy, and Jersey, the Olympic weightlifting coach who trained him like an athlete until he lived independently and went to college.

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The gist

  1. Jersey started Tae Jin on a 3 lb wooden bar because he couldn't lift 15 lbs, adding one or two pounds each week.
  2. Jersey says Tae Jin eventually pressed 170 lbs at about 150 lbs body weight, and his first real conversations with his father followed.

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