Barbell Shrugged

New episode every Wednesday! Join the Barbell Shrugged crew in conversations about fitness, training, and frequent interviews w/ CrossFit Games athletes!

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The West Coast Gary Vhee — Real Chalk #85 Jul 23, 2019

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Dave Meltzer is the CEO of Sports 1 Marketing, a Forbes "Top 10 Keynote Speaker", award-winning humanitarian, the host of entrepreneur magazines podcast called, "The Playbook," and two-time national best-selling author, with 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur.

I mean you name it and this man has done it. Not only is this one of the biggest names we've ever had on the show, but he drops some knowledge and little breadcrumbs that we've never tasted in any other podcast before.

He reminds me so much of Gary Vhee's style, that I just thought I'd just dub him the "Gary Vhee of the West." Get ready to get fired up for the week!

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Shrugged Collective is a network of fitness, health and performance shows that help people achieve their physical and mental health goals. Usually in the gym, but outside as well. In 2012 they posted their first Barbell Shrugged podcast and have been putting out weekly free videos and podcasts ever since.

Along the way we've created successful online coaching programs including The Shrugged Strength Challenge, The Muscle Gain Challenge, FLIGHT, Barbell Shredded, and Barbell Bikini.

We're also dedicated to helping affiliate gym owners grow their businesses and better serve their members by providing owners tools and resources like the Barbell Business Podcast.

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What Makes A Great Team Is Not Luck- Business of Fitness #65 Jul 22, 2019

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As General Manager of The Resort at Pedregal, Fernando Flores brings more than 18 years of hospitality experience to the award-winning property. In his role, Flores is responsible for continuing the success of the prestigious resort while cultivating both domestic and international relationships with guests, colleagues and owners. From achieving financial results and implementation of capital expense projects and focusing on maintaining an efficient and profitable function of the day-to-day operations on property, to providing exceptional guest service and satisfaction property-wide, Flores has made an impact at the resort for over a decade.

Since joining the team in 2008 as Assistant Director of Food & Beverage, his innovative, fresh ideas and determination have enabled him to quickly excel through the ranks, holding various positions at the resort including Director of Food & Beverage, Director of Rooms and Resort Manager. Flores' multifaceted experience and familiarity with The Resort at Pedregal paired with his compassionate leadership skills allow him to further enhance the resort's undisputed benchmark for providing the very finest in luxury hospitality and guest satisfaction. During his tenure, The Resort at Pedregal has been named the No. 1 Resort in Mexico by Travel + Leisure three times since the grand opening, was awarded the coveted Forbes Five-Star achievement for both the hotel and spa, and is consistently in the top 5 Resorts in Mexico (Western) in Condé Nast Traveler.

Flores earned a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Biomedical and Medical Engineering from the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara.

To say the Resort at Pedregal is phenomenal would be an understatement. The five-star resort is ranked by Forbes, TripAdvisor, and received Travel Leisure's World's Best Awards making it's resume speak for itself. In today's episode, Jason and Fernando discuss how reaching this degree of service and notoriety was possible. Through creating and maintaining a service culture rooted in harvesting meaningful connections and positive impact, The Resort at Pedregal is second to none when it comes to the service industry. With over a decade of experience, Fernando provides insight and takeaways for any business owner in today's show. Enjoy!

Minute Breakdown:

0-5 – Getting Started in Customer Service Industry

5-10 – Creating and Maintaining Quality

10-15 – Rebranding: Communicating Mission and Vision

15-20 – Identifying Talent and Onboarding Process

20-25 – Making Your Team Gameday Ready

25-30 –Refining and Practicing Standards: Creating Alignment

Check out The Resort at Pedregal here: www.theresortatpedregal.com

Find The Resort at Pedregal at @resortatpedregal

Find Jason at @jasonkhalipa

Keep up with Jason's latest project at: www.ncfitcollective.fit

The Doctor of Growing Glutes with the Glute Guy Dr. Brett Contreras - The Barbell Life Jul 21, 2019

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Fitness Instructor who is known for sharing workout related content to his Instagram and for his over 360,000 followers. He is a published author and lecturer known for focusing on the importance of workout techniques related to glutes. He is also the owner of company and brand The Glute Lab.

He earned his PhD in Sports Sciences and is CSCS certified. He earned recognition in the fitness world for being the inventor of The Hip Thruster gym kit. He was then featured in multiple press outlets including Men's Health, Men's Fitness, and FLEX.

In this episode of Barbell Shrugged the crew digs into coaching CrossFit games athletes, the journey of a professional CrossFit Coach, and managing business, life, fatherhood, and fitness.

Minute Breakdown:

0-10 – Speaking bro and not getting hung up in the PHD to connect with people

11-20 – Eliminating ego and always learning

21-30 – Why strength and conditioning needs to be lead by researchers and science

31-40 - The value of motor recruitment and soreness

41 -50 - Genetic coding and muscle type

51 -60 - Specificity in training for sport

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Pre-Order Bret's new book "The Glute Lab"

Travis Mash on Instagram

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One Ton Challenge Weekend

August 1st - 4th

Find your 1rm in the snatch, clean, jerk, squat, dead, bench.

Add them up to find your One Ton Total.

The goal is 2,000 pounds for men and 1,200 for women.

4 days. 6 lifts. 1 goal. 1 Ton.

http://live.onetonchallenge.com

"What is the One Ton Challenge"

"How Strong is Strong Enough"

"How do I Start the One Ton Challenge"

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Along the way we've created successful online coaching programs including The Shrugged Strength Challenge, The Muscle Gain Challenge, FLIGHT, Barbell Shredded, and Barbell Bikini.

We're also dedicated to helping affiliate gym owners grow their businesses and better serve their members by providing owners tools and resources like the Barbell Business Podcast.

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Avoiding Major Surgery and Staying competitive with Dr. Ray Gorman- Active Life Radio #2 Jul 19, 2019

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Dr. Ray is the director of staff at Active Life. He works with one on one clients and is responsible for coaching the staff. If you have heard of the Active Life Immersion program, Dr. Ray runs that too. The dude is a stud!

A neuro surgeon told her she needed spinal fusion, an orthopedist agreed, and a physical therapist couldn't help. Now she power cleans over 200# and she never had surgery. What happened between the scary prognosis and the heavy clangin' and bangin'? Give it a listen.

Minute Breakdown:

0-10 - How did you know she didn't need surgery?

11-20 - He told his wife to hide his gun.

21-30 - Is an anterior pelvic tilt bad?

31-40 - Turning off a false alarm.

41-50 - Even the smallest improvement can lead to the largest.

51-60 - What does the future look like?

Work with an Active Life Coach like Ray at activeliferx.com/shrugged

Find Dr. Ray at @RayGormanDpt

You Don't Have Adrenal Fatigue. So What's Really Going On? — Muscle Maven Radio Episode #24 Jul 18, 2019

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Back by popular demand, Ashleigh brings on Dr. Ralph Esposito, naturopathic physician and hormone whisperer to talk about a subject that's important to the fitness community but largely misunderstood: adrenal fatigue. While many of us have suffered the symptoms and perhaps even been diagnosed, our understanding of the mechanisms behind our adrenal system is often flawed, as is our approach to supporting our adrenal health. Ralph walks us through what's really happening when we "think" we have adrenal fatigue, discusses many lifestyle and supplemental factors that can help us improve and manage chronic stress and fatigue, and we talk about whether or not it's even possible to address these issues with young, healthy, type-A athletes, or whether they need to learn the hard way that rest and recovery is as important as training.

Dr. Ralph Esposito is a New York based naturopathic physician, acupuncturist and functional medicine practitioner specializing in integrative urology, men's health and nutrigenomics. He has designed education modules for health professionals specifically on urological conditions, male and female hormone dysfunction, hypogonadism, exercise, men's health and sexual dysfunction. He's an adjunct professor at New York University where he lectures on integrative medicine. Currently, Dr. Esposito serves as a medical consultant and research analyst.

Show Overview:

Minute Breakdown:

6-19 Catching up with Dr. Esposito including his more recent research on sleep and fasting and some especially compelling herbal supplements for hormone health and support

19 – 30 We talk about his experiments with fasting and why, despite evidence of its benefits, it is not ideal for everyone

30 - 46 Ralph explains why you don't have adrenal fatigue, even if it feels like it. What's being diagnosed is really a chronic stress and fatigue issue as a result of over work, over training, over stress, and poor lifestyle factors. We talk about Addison's disease, and what the two different challenges look and feel like

46 - 56 Ways to address chronic stress and fatigue – and we dive into the psychology of it, why it's so difficult for Type A, ambitious people to address the obvious lifestyle factors that are keeping them from optimal health and performance

56 - A discussion on some adaptogens and herbal supplements that can help with chronic fatigue; why we tend to discount or mistrust herbal remedies; how to make sure you're getting the good stuff

Follow Dr. Esposito on Instagram @dr.ralphesposito and learn more at drralphesposito.com.

Reach out to me on Instagram @themusclemaven to say hi and tell me what you thought of the podcast, head to ashleighvanhouten.com to sign up for my weekly health and fitness newsletter, and if you enjoyed the episode please share on social media and leave me a nice rating and review on iTunes!

Learn more about how Beekeeper's Naturals can support immunity, energy, and health for active people – check out www.beekeepersnaturals.com/musclemaven to see some of Ashleigh's favorite products and use the code musclemaven for a 15 percent discount on anything you buy!

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Along the way we've created successful online coaching programs including The Shrugged Strength Challenge, The Muscle Gain Challenge, FLIGHT, Barbell Shredded, and Barbell Bikini.

We're also dedicated to helping affiliate gym owners grow their businesses and better serve their members by providing owners tools and resources like the Barbell Business Podcast.

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What It Takes to Be a Great Athlete and Coach w/Jason Leydon, Anders Varner, Doug Larson — Barbell Shrugged #409 Jul 17, 2019

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Founder and head trainer at CrossFit Milford in Milford CT, which has been to the games 4 times and has had athletes at the games 10 years in a row. Team CrossFit Milford finished 2nd in the world in 2015 and Jason has produced 9 podium finishers.

His professional focus is on personalized strength, conditioning and movement quality which ensures the foundation is properly built on an individual level so each athlete can reach genetic and athletic potential. He is an established, knowledgeable and respected teacher, coach and resource in the global fitness community. Jason earned his degree in Physical Education and Health from Eastern CT State University where he also played basketball.

In this episode of Barbell Shrugged the crew digs into coaching CrossFit games athletes, the journey of a professional CrossFit Coach, and managing business, life, fatherhood, and fitness.

Minute Breakdown:

0-10 – Why to be a great athlete you have to be selfish

11-20 – Progressing as a CrossFit Coach and always learning

21-30 – Why CrossFit the best athletes in CrossFit have mastered play

41-50 - Building programming buy in with athletes

51 -60 - Staying up to the times in CrossFit and learning the skills needed to coach the best athletes

61 -70 - Soft skills and language to make athletes better

Follow Jason on Instagram

Conquer Athlete Podcast

CrossFit Millford

Anders Varner on Instagram

Doug Larson on Instagram

Mike Mcelroy on Instagram

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One Ton Challenge Weekend

August 1st - 4th

Find your 1rm in the snatch, clean, jerk, squat, dead, bench.

Add them up to find your One Ton Total.

The goal is 2,000 pounds for men and 1,200 for women.

4 days. 6 lifts. 1 goal. 1 Ton.

http://live.onetonchallenge.com

"What is the One Ton Challenge"

"How Strong is Strong Enough"

"How do I Start the One Ton Challenge"

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Along the way we've created successful online coaching programs including The Shrugged Strength Challenge, The Muscle Gain Challenge, FLIGHT, Barbell Shredded, and Barbell Bikini.

We're also dedicated to helping affiliate gym owners grow their businesses and better serve their members by providing owners tools and resources like the Barbell Business Podcast.

Find Shrugged Collective and their flagship show Barbell Shrugged here:

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Why You Shouldn't Do Business With Friends — Real Chalk #84 Jul 16, 2019

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Barrett has a background in the military in a tiny special forces group called CCT. Originally enlisting with a dental assistant job, he quickly realized that his personality type was closer to the special forces people he had met while he was in. As soon as he could, he signed up for the qualification and process and did whatever he had to do to make it in this elite group.

Once the military was over for him, that personality type and drive eventually propelled him into a successful business in the clothing industry with a brand called "NFQ."

Not having much experience in business and partnering up with a friend with nothing more than verbal agreements eventually led him into a few problems as the business grew...

A lot happens in a small Window of time and Barret shares his experience throughout the entire ordeal. As well as sharing what he wish he would have done differently along the way.

This is a great listen for anyone looking to get into business!

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Along the way we've created successful online coaching programs including The Shrugged Strength Challenge, The Muscle Gain Challenge, FLIGHT, Barbell Shredded, and Barbell Bikini.

We're also dedicated to helping affiliate gym owners grow their businesses and better serve their members by providing owners tools and resources like the Barbell Business Podcast.

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Everything You Need to Know About Creating Content w/ Stuart Brower. Business of Fitness Episode 64 Jul 15, 2019

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Stuart Brauer is a 15-year student of strength and conditioning, and he was fortunate to find CrossFit in 2006; his journey consists of humble beginnings,making three figures and running park workouts to owning a million-dollar gym—Urban MVMNT.In 2015, his gym business was self-sustaining so he ventured into helping other micro-gym owners and built the media handle WTF Gym Talkto help provide solutions for the WTF!#%! moments we all have in our business.

Today Jason sits down with Stuart Brauer (Stu) to lay out tangible toolsgym owners and business owners alike can use to boost their engagement. Having similar backgrounds and much exposure to the fitness industry, Jason and Stuart, provide helpful insight into areas of marketing, community development, and how to stay relevant in the ever-evolving fitness space.

Minute Breakdown:

0-5 –Bootcamp for Business

5-10 –Referrals, Guerilla Marketing, and Operational Decisions

10-15 –Community Connection and Networking

15-20 –Tracking Your Efforts and ROI20-25 –Capitalizing onLocalism

25-30 –Hacks for Creating Great Content

30-35 –Depth vs. Width and Capturing Moments

Work with Stu and see what he's got cooking at https://www.wtfgymtalk.com/

Find Stuat @wtfgymtalk

Find Jason at @jasonkhalipa

Referenced Tools:

Magisto: www.magisto.com

Anchor.fm: https://anchor.fm

Westside Barbell and the Conjugate Method w/ Louie Simmons - The Barbell Life Jul 14, 2019

Show notes

Louis Simmons is an American powerlifter and strength coach. He is noted for developing the Westside Barbell method of training and applying it to powerlifting and other sports, as well as inventing several pieces of strength training equipment. Westside Barbell is a private, invitation-only, elite training facility in Columbus, Ohio that was created by Simmons.

Simmons is one of only five lifters to total Elite in five different powerlifting weight classes. He has totalled Elite in various power-lifting organizations.

Minute Breakdown:

0-10 – Using box squats to increase olympic lifts

11-20 – Low Bar vs. High Bar for increased strength

21-30 – Why the best coaches in the world all come to Westside 31-40 – Velocity training with bands

41-50 - Programming using band tension

51 -60 - The importance of assistance work

61 -70 - Why you don't need to work on technique

https://www.westside-barbell.com

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One Ton Challenge Weekend

August 1st - 4th

Find your 1rm in the snatch, clean, jerk, squat, dead, bench.

Add them up to find your One Ton Total.

The goal is 2,000 pounds for men and 1,200 for women.

4 days. 6 lifts. 1 goal. 1 Ton.

http://live.onetonchallenge.com

"What is the One Ton Challenge"

"How Strong is Strong Enough"

"How do I Start the One Ton Challenge"

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Along the way we've created successful online coaching programs including The Shrugged Strength Challenge, The Muscle Gain Challenge, FLIGHT, Barbell Shredded, and Barbell Bikini.

We're also dedicated to helping affiliate gym owners grow their businesses and better serve their members by providing owners tools and resources like the Barbell Business Podcast.

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Lifting Heavy Again, Pelvic Dysfunction, Torn Meniscus, and Arthritis with Dr. Lance Einerson - Active Life Radio #1 Jul 12, 2019

Show notes

Dr. Lance Einerson is a one on one coach on staff with Active Life. He is the go to staff member for clients who need help with breathing and bracing. His extensive experience as a breathwork specialist and a physical therapist makes him uniquely suited to help Active Life 1 on 1 clients utilize their superpower, breath.

What do you do when you have tried physical therapy for months and they keep telling you "You just can't do that stuff anymore."? That's exactly what we were facing when with the client who we discuss on today's episode. How did this mother of three go from having pelvic dysfunction, multiple knee surgeries, arthritis, and day to day pain, to hitting PRs on her olympic lifts? You're going to have to listen to find out.

Minute Breakdown:

0-10 - Her pelvis hadn't detached, but it had shifted.

11-20 - What was the first step to decreasing pain?

21-30 - How to breath through your sticking point.

31-40 - Collecting wins

41-50 - Managing load.

Work with an Active Life Coach like Lance at activeliferx.com/shrugged

Find Lance at @lance.einerson_dpt

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Along the way we've created successful online coaching programs including The Shrugged Strength Challenge, The Muscle Gain Challenge, FLIGHT, Barbell Shredded, and Barbell Bikini.

We're also dedicated to helping affiliate gym owners grow their businesses and better serve their members by providing owners tools and resources like the Barbell Business Podcast.

Find Shrugged Collective and their flagship show Barbell Shrugged here:

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