#33 Strength Training for Endurance Athletes

Joe DeFranco's Industrial Strength Show

Joe DeFranco

Fitness, Muscle, Health, Sports, Health & Fitness, Lifting, Bodybuilding, Strength

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this weeks episode, Joe explains how & why endurance athletes should be incorporating strength training into their physical preparation. While listening to this episode, you will learn:

How Joe trained his first marathon runner and what he learned from that experience; The physical quality that should be at the base of every athlete's "athletic pyramid"; The single most overlooked component of training endurance athletes; The secret to crushing your Crossfit WOD; The biggest mistake Crossfitters make in their training; The #1 physical characteristic that has the most carryover to Crossfit events; What endurance athletes can learn from Rich Demers (Joe's former meathead client who still holds all the bench press records at DeFranco's; How endurance athletes can intelligently incorporate a strength program into their weekly plan; In-season training recommendations for endurance athletes and much, Much MORE!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey guys, thanks for joining me today. I got a great show lined up for you once again, but before we get started, I want to recognize today's sponsors.
0:11.0	Today's show is brought to you by the all new Strong Bastered 911 program.
0:18.8	And this is a program we tested out on a bunch of our VIP clients ourselves and over 600 members of the
0:29.4	DeFranco Insider membership website man, we gathered all the data and feedback throughout the program.
0:37.0	Then we tweaked it, we updated it, we made it even better
0:42.0	based on everybody's feedback and their results.
0:45.7	And now this program, the updated version, is available to you.
0:51.6	I know this is going to sound like hype but this is the best program we've ever created
0:59.0	Period and I say that with all honesty and you don't even have to take my word for it if you want to see a
1:06.5	sampling of the 600 plus yes 600 plus athletes, coaches and lifters that were part of our initial beta test.
1:19.4	Go to StrongBastard 911.com and you will see 16 of the DeFranco Insider
1:27.6	members who completed this program and wait until you see their transformations.
1:33.8	It is unfrekin believable.
1:37.7	And speaking of transformations,
1:39.5	I gotta give a quick shout out
1:41.1	to Luke Brooks and Kevin Cassidy for placing in the top three of our
1:46.6	transformation contest they made ridiculous, ridiculous changes in their bodies and their
1:54.7	strength shot through the roof.
1:56.4	Their pictures are on the Strong Bastard 911 website.
2:00.2	And of course I got to give a big shout out
2:02.2	to our grand champion Charlie Guthrie
2:05.6	that wait until you see his transformation literally has a new body. It is insane.
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