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Barbell Shrugged

Bro Book Club: Your Top 10 Reads for 2019 w/ Doug & Anders  — Barbell Shrugged #369

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2019

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

This is a special episode, where Doug Larson (@douglaselarson) and Anders Varner (@andersvarner) talk about the best books on business, why communication is a skill you should constantly be developing, how mindset training is a skill that plays into all of life's skills, why learning meditation will make you better at everything, and much more.

 

Enjoy!

- Doug and Anders

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Shrugged Collective is a network of fitness, health and performance shows that help people achieve their physical and mental health goals.  Usually in the gym, but outside as well. In 2012 they posted their first Barbell Shrugged podcast and have been putting out weekly free videos and podcasts ever since.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Shrug family, I've got to come clean to you. I'm getting old. I have a partially torn bicep tendon right now.

0:07.0

It's killer. It sucks. I've been able to put my arm over my head like five days. This just goes to show.

0:14.0

You got to warm up better. Seven weeks ago Ashley Van Halton, the muscle maven, she put up a workout.

0:22.0

Ten to one. Burpees and dumbbell thrusters. Thought it looked simple enough. I didn't have much time to work out.

0:29.0

So I rolled into the gym, made it happen. Burpee number one, felt a little tweak in my shoulder.

0:37.0

Imagine that. 195 pounds coming crashing down with gravity plus deceleration on cold shoulders.

0:43.0

And then all of a sudden I got 55 thrusters to do on top of 55 burpees. You can see how this problem happens.

0:51.0

Seven weeks later after carrying my baby around in my left arm all night doing all the things, stress life.

0:59.0

I walked into a 24 hour fitness, hopped on one of their incline bench machines that was not designed for my body and snap.

1:09.0

It was not pretty. It's been really painful. It has not been fun. But we're here. It's Wednesday and I have a massive, massively exciting news for you today.

1:20.0

We're doing a bro book club. Doug and I have wanted to do bro book club for so long.

1:25.0

We wanted to bro book club is every single time we mentioned a book on any show whether we're talking about books or we just reference a book.

1:34.0

Everybody always hits me up. Hey, what was that book? Whether it was principles talking about with Ben Persion, Jordan Peterson, 12 rules for life.

1:44.0

Doug loves that book. He loves Jordan Peterson. He's listened to everything that guy has ever done on YouTube.

1:50.0

But we dedicated an entire two hours to bro book club. Trust me. If you guys love this show, we're going to do a lot more bro book club because we read a lot.

2:01.0

We listen to a lot of books and we're always learning. So you want more bro book clubs? I need you to take a screenshot.

2:08.0

I need you to tag me at Anders Varner. I need you to use the hashtag go long just like we do every week.

2:15.0

Hit me up. Send me a note. Tell me what your top five books are of 2018. And here it is. The very first ever bro book club.

2:25.0

We're going to buy our best drug. I'm Anders Varner. Doug Larsen. We're hanging out in the garage and we've got a huge day today because we're going to do hopefully,

2:33.0

where's the first of many because we talk about this idea all the time. Bro book club. We're going to walk through my top five books that you need to be reading.

2:44.0

Doug's walking through his top five books that you need to be reading. Oh, the spec up. So these are my top my personal favorite books from 2018.

2:54.0

All time favorites. We'll save that for another show. I went all time because I didn't read a full five this year.

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