Addiction, Recovery and Building a Life of Value w/ Tim Riley, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash #818

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Business, Training, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Paleo, Weightlifting, Nutrition, Crossfit

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Tim Riley is Director of Sports Performance at Kollective in Austin, TX where he trains athletes at the pro, collegiate, and high school level. Most notably, Riley currently oversees and conducts strength and conditioning sessions for NFL, NBA, PLL & AVP athletes. The NFL off-season program at Kollective is one the largest and most respected programs in the country. Riley is also the head strength and conditioning coach for The University of Texas Men’s Lacrosse.

Riley launched his training career in 2017 after receiving a lifelong training certification through NPTI, under the supervision and mentorship of Professor Dave Boetcher. He then founded Timrileytraining LLC, a training company working with young athletes. Throughout his career, Riley has acquired a plethora of certifications (NPTI, NASM, Precision Nutrition, & USAW among others) to further his education and better serve the training community, while also gleaning wisdom from multiple mentors: Mo Wells, Trey Hardee, Connor Harris, Dr. Pat Davidson, Dr. Ben House, Keir Whenham-Flatt, and Jeremy Hills, to name a few. To date, his professional experience spans across all ages; from high school athletes and collegiate athletes, as well as professional athletes in the NFL, MLB, PLL, AVP, and NBA.

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0:00.0	Shrug family this week on Barbell Shrug. Tim Riley is coming into the podcast and we're going to be talking about recovery addiction.
0:07.7	I even open a little bit about my party days in here and actually trying to start taking my life seriously and not be so good at staying out so late, which I very rarely get to talk about on Shrugged and kind of the the transformation from a 25, 27-year-old to getting to turning pro, we'll call it.
0:28.2	Tim has very much a similar story, which is something that we were able to connect on and kind of a little bit of a different show.
0:34.3	Like we typically talk training and getting jacked and all those things.
0:56.1	And once he started out in the rabbit hole of this, we knew there was no coming back because it was such an important part of his life and his story. So we rolled with it. As always, friends, make sure you get over to rapid health report.com. That's where Dan Garner, Dr. Andy Galpin, are doing a free lab, lifestyle, and performance analysis. And you're going to access that over at rapid health report.com. Friends, let's get into the show.
1:01.8	Welcome to my most hug. I'm Andrews, Warner, Doug Larson, Tim Riley.
1:07.0	A lot of people probably know who you are, all the NFL people, but let's talk about the most dedicated athlete you have right now, your eight-year-old volleyball player.
1:14.1	We went through like different things you have going on.
1:19.8	And as soon as we talked about training, your eight-year-old and volleyball, your eyes lit up.
1:22.1	And let's hear about it.
1:22.5	Let's go.
1:26.9	Honestly, I said it kind of tongue-in-cheek.
1:28.9	First of all, guys, thank you for having me on.
1:45.0	And I said it, yeah, kind of tongue and cheek. My most important coaching position currently is the head coach of the Purple Panthers, which is my daughter's eight-year-old little league volleyball team. And, but I'm not kidding. I bleed purple.
1:47.6	And I am a Panther now.
1:51.0	And we just had practice last night.
1:59.6	I got to say that the beauty of working with kids and that, and particularly the skill acquisition piece, right?
2:01.3	Because, like, I'm a performance coach.
2:03.3	I don't do much position work stuff.
2:06.0	The skill acquisition is, like, limited to, like, you know,
2:09.7	sprinting and jumping.
2:11.1	And while that's certainly a thing, it's only an aspect of the training, right?
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