5/3/1 Strength Training System w/ Jim Wendler - The Barbell Life
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2019
⏱️ 60 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.
Minute Breakdown:
0-10 – How Jim found the barbell and strength training
11-20 – Battling Grave Disease
21-30 – Training at Westside Barbell w/ Dave Tate
31-40 - Equipment vs. Raw powerlifting and reshaping the sport of powerlifting
41 -50 - Totaling elite in his first powerlifting meet
51 -60 - Creating the 5/3/1 strength training system
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| 0:00.0 | How has it been a week already since we tore it down at the CrossFit Games? |
| 0:05.9 | Good Lord was the one-ton challenge life so much fun West kids in the House Morgan gang all the coolest kids in the world |
| 0:13.6 | Cassiano |
| 0:14.7 | Katie Cork |
| 0:16.2 | Everybody was so cool. We lifted so much weights CT Fletcher good Lord |
| 0:21.2 | I got to stand on stage at the CrossFit Games in the middle of the floor all the people |
| 0:26.6 | Tell people about the one-ton challenge so radical |
| 0:29.8 | This week on the Barba Life |
| 0:32.4 | Jim Wynnler 531 if you haven't done this program. It's unbelievably cool. It's like one of the most |
| 0:39.3 | Foundational programs that every strength athlete goes through at some point in their life |
| 0:43.0 | You'll see 531 pop up. It's a phenomenal program. Jim Wynnler is an awesome story and this is just part one of |
| 0:50.8 | two |
| 0:51.9 | Jim Wynnler coach Travis mash in the barba life |
| 0:54.7 | What'll let everybody know that we are in the middle of a long for the one-ton challenge |
| 0:59.5 | It is a 12-month strength training program. We're going to walk you through eight week |
| 1:05.2 | cycles of the squat the snatch the clean the bench the deadlift and the jerk |
| 1:11.5 | You're gonna do all six of those on an eight week cycle and it wraps up with a four-week peak cycle |
| 1:16.4 | And what you're going to PR all six of your lists |
| 1:19.4 | We just got the first group through the squat cycle and every single person literally 100% of the people PR their back squat and |
| 1:27.7 | Eight weeks anywhere from 20 to 100 pounds. Yeah, we had a 100 pound |
| 1:35.2 | Back squat PR which is insane in eight weeks |
| 1:39.1 | So get over to one-ton challenge dot com forward slash join |
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