5/3/1 Strength Training System w/ Jim Wendler: Part 2 - The Barbell Life
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Jim Wendler is the creator and author of the 5/3/1 Training Program. This program has been used by millions of athletes and lifters of all ages and abilities. Jim played football and graduated from the University of Arizona where he was a three-time letter winner. He went on to squat 1000 pounds in competition and is an accomplished Elite Lifter with a 2,375 pound total. He has coached high school athletes, collegiate athletes, trained general populations and spoken globally on the topics of strength training, conditioning, fat-loss, performance and program design. However, his greatest success is his ability to simplify the complexities of strength training into program variations so that anyone can apply them and achieve their goals.
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| 0:00.0 | an absolutely epic group of humans. |
| 0:04.1 | Ready to get super strong? |
| 0:06.1 | Shrug family, the one-ton challenge program |
| 0:09.2 | launched number two is in the books. |
| 0:11.5 | We get to hang out with all the strong people |
| 0:13.7 | against starting the eight-week squat program. |
| 0:16.5 | Last time, 100% of the humans that went to the eight-week program |
| 0:21.5 | he are the squat between 20 and 100 pounds. |
| 0:25.2 | All those strong kids, now they're moving on |
| 0:27.4 | to the eight-week snatch block. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm so stoked for the results that we got |
| 0:33.3 | in the first eight weeks of the program. |
| 0:35.3 | Now we have group number two, getting ready to go through |
| 0:37.8 | the exact same eight weeks, see their PRs. |
| 0:41.0 | And if any of the very first week of group one on the snatch, |
| 0:47.3 | eight weeks is an indication of where we're going over |
| 0:49.9 | the next eight weeks. |
| 0:51.3 | We are going to see some massive PRs in the snatch as well. |
| 0:54.0 | Just techniques getting better. |
| 0:55.4 | People are getting strong. |
| 0:56.8 | Still squatting. |
| 0:58.2 | Life is so good. |
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