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Barbell Shrugged

Barbell Shrugged  — Over 40 Years of Strength and Conditioning w/ Anders Varner and Doug Larson  — 331

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2018

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

This is a special episode, where Anders Varner (@andersvarner) and Doug Larson (@douglaselarson) talk about their combined experience of 40 years in strength & conditioning. They talk about where it all began, how their training plans have progressed over 20 years respectively, the beginnings of a career in strength, how to create training programs for life, what it means to create a whole body approach to training, and much more.

 

Enjoy!

 

- Doug and Anders

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Shrug family, this is Anders Varner.

0:02.9

We've got a sick bro show coming to you today.

0:06.0

Doug and I are talking, way lifting for like two and a half hours.

0:09.8

We actually recorded this many, many, many months ago when I first became the host of the

0:14.3

show.

0:17.2

We have been putting out a ton of audio only shows because a lot of times Doug and I just

0:21.2

roll around.

0:22.2

We just creep around this country, find cool people to talk to, and we don't bring

0:26.6

Colton.

0:27.6

Colton's not a, Colton on the cam's not invited.

0:29.8

No, we love Colton, but yeah, sometimes we just turn them on and we talk.

0:36.6

And when this was happening, I had never, I had only been to co-host for like three months

0:42.6

with Mike and Doug at the beginning of the year and then I became the host and there's

0:46.9

a bit of a transition and what I needed to be doing the most was getting on the Mike

0:51.2

and talking as much as possible, getting comfortable and Doug and I decided we were just

0:56.3

going to tell our whole training history from all the coaches, all the programs, all of

1:02.0

our best stories, all in one place and this is what we got.

1:07.1

So super fun show.

1:08.6

I honestly love these shows so much.

1:12.7

Last week with Lucero, this week, just Doug and I, but anytime we can get the bros back

1:18.7

together to just hang out.

1:21.8

Man, you could like hear how much fun we have because I, I'm in the room.

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