[Adaptation] How to Reach Your Goals in the Most Efficient and Effective Way w/ Anders Varner, Doug Larson, Travis Mash, and Dan Garner #678
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode of Barbell Shrugged you will learn:
- Principle of Specificity: Why the body gets better at the task you practice most often
- Exercise selection based on type of muscle contractions (eccentric, concentric, or isometric)
- Finding optimal ranges of motion for specific adaptations
- Variability in external resistance (plates, bands, chains, etc)
- How to track and measure velocity of the movement
- What are force vectors and how you use them for specific adaptations
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| 0:00.0 | Shrug family, this week on Barbell Shrug Coach Travis Masha is taking over the |
| 0:04.2 | microphone and we are going to be looking at adaptability. What does that mean? |
| 0:09.0 | What we're really looking for is how do you design a training program to be the |
| 0:13.3 | most efficient and effective way for you to get the specific result that you |
| 0:17.1 | are looking for. In order for you to get the result, your body needs to be able |
| 0:21.1 | to adapt to the training stimulus. So when you squat, you want your glutes and |
| 0:26.0 | your quads and everything to get bigger and stronger. The faster you can reach |
| 0:30.0 | that goal, the happier you will be. Today we're going to walk through some of |
| 0:34.7 | the variables that you can be thinking about, how to start to approach them, and |
| 0:38.8 | really actually just designing an ultra personalized training program |
| 0:43.2 | specific to your needs, your goals, and getting there in the most efficient and |
| 0:47.1 | effective way possible. As always, you can head over to RapidHealthReport.com. |
| 0:52.5 | That's where Dan Garner is breaking down my labs. You get to see some really |
| 0:57.3 | cool stuff. See the man in the myth. Actually doing the job that he does inside |
| 1:00.8 | RapidHealth Optimization and head over to RapidHealthReport.com and go check |
| 1:06.1 | it out. Friends, Coach Travis Masha, let's get after it. |
| 1:09.7 | Welcome to Barbell Shrug. I'm Anders Warner, Doug Larson, Coach Travis Masha. |
| 1:13.2 | Today on Barbell Shrug Friends, we're going to be talking about a word that we use |
| 1:16.8 | all the time at RapidHealth Optimization, which is adaptability and really |
| 1:21.6 | what we're looking for is the ability of your body to adapt to the stimulus |
| 1:25.8 | that you give it. Today, Coach Travis Masha is going to break that down when it |
| 1:29.0 | comes to your training and all of the ways that we're going to be looking to |
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