Barbell Shrugged - Mindset of a Champion w/ 2x UFC Champion Dominick Cruz -320

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

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

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Dominick Cruz is an American mixed martial artist. He fights in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and is a two-time UFC Bantamweight Champion. Cruz was also the final bantamweight titleholder of World Extreme Cagefighting.

Known as one of the top pound-for-pound fighters in mixed martial arts, Cruz is noted for his unorthodox movement, powerful wrestling base, quick striking, and his tendency to attack from angles in a unique fashion unlike any other fighter on the UFC roster.

In this episode, Dom compares maintaining the body of a professional athlete to having a 40 hour/week job. Work needs to be done on the body to keep growing whether or not there are injuries. Dom stresses how importance is it to keeping up conditioning for fighters when they are injured, as they need to be ready to perform when the injury heals. He also discusses how he continues to get better as an athlete while enduring age and injury, and much more.

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0:00.0	Shrugged family, Anders Varner here, super stoked for this week.
0:04.7	We have Dominic Cruz on the show and just so you know, interviewing Dominic Cruz at the
0:09.8	first time I've ever stepped into an octagon and if you're going to do that, you might as
0:14.2	well do it with a world champ.
0:16.6	I thought it was awesome.
0:17.6	His mindset, the way that he designs his training camps, the training and just the prep that
0:23.4	goes into stuff when we dig into these pieces was just really cool to me just to see inside
0:29.7	the mind and the training of a real champion and I am so far from understanding the fight
0:35.8	game that just anything that came out of his mouth was was new information to me and
0:41.4	anytime I get to kind of lead a conversation with somebody that has been to the highest
0:47.2	levels, been through the injuries, been through some of the mental things that come along
0:52.0	with injuries and then climb their way back to the top is just beyond cool to me.
0:59.2	Not just from an athletic perspective but just an understanding of life and purpose and
1:03.6	just how people are able to get through adversity and bring themselves back to the top.
1:11.5	Last week I was lucky enough, our boy Mike Bledso launched the Strong Coach and I was, you
1:19.6	probably heard my voice on the prologue, we did some hanging out, I will be on episode
1:24.3	seven or eight of the Strong Coach but rarely do I get to have interviews where I am just
1:32.8	focusing on the life of a coach.
1:38.2	Most of the time when people interview me they want to know about training programs or
1:40.8	the shrug collective or barbell shrugged, moving our ex, just things that I'm involved with
1:45.9	but never on my experiences as a coach and how someone can structure a career out of this.
1:53.7	This is the future of where I want to spend a lot of my time as well.
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