Building the Endurance Athlete w/ Javier Pineda, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash #793

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

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

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Javier Pineda, endurance coach at RAPID Health Optimization and founder of Endurance Cartel, empowers athletes and professionals to master strength and stamina. With ten Ironman triathlons and two Ironman 70.3 races under his belt, he’s a CHEK Practitioner with top-tier certifications and insights from various mentors across his career. At DBC Fitness in Miami, he’s trained pros, executives, and competitors to hit peak performance. His focused coaching targets endurance-strength integration, precision movement, optimization, recovery, and custom training—driving sustainable, high-impact results.

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Javier Pineda on Instagram

Anders Varner on Instagram

Doug Larson on Instagram

Coach Travis Mash on Instagram

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0:00.0	Shrug family this week on Barbell Shrug Javier Pineda is coming into the show. He is our
0:04.6	endurance specialist inside rapid health optimization. So all of the very specific goals for people
0:11.3	that want to be going from one place to another and a very, very long distance in between those
0:16.6	two places, whether it's on a bike or swimming or running or on a foil board or on who knows
0:24.5	what kind of other apparatus. But all of our endurance athletes, they have a specialist that is
0:31.1	working with them on all things endurance. And it is awesome having him here. We really, really
0:36.5	enjoy it and everybody enjoys working with him.
0:38.5	And as always, friends, you can head over to rapid health report.com. That is where Dan Garner and
0:43.1	Dr. Andy Galpin are doing a free lab lifestyle and performance analysis. And you can access that
0:47.5	over at rapid health report.com. Friends, let's get into the show.
0:53.7	Welcome to Marvell Strug. I'm Anders Warner. Doug Larson, coach Travis show. Welcome to Barbell Strug.
0:54.9	I'm Anders Barner, Doug Larson.
0:56.4	Coach Travis Mash.
0:57.6	Today on Barbaal Strugged, Javier Pineda.
1:00.2	Javier, you are new to our team and also very awesome in that you speak a language of long
1:08.1	distance, running, endurance.
1:14.3	But what I really want to kick off is when i first met you you dropped a name of paul check and i immediately wanted to fly down to miami and just
1:21.5	have coffee and talk to you about how that man changed my life um i'd love to hear um a little bit of of kind of the background on how you got into where you're at.
1:31.4	And then I want to spend a little bit of time talking about Paul Check,
1:34.0	because that guy over like a half day genuinely changed my life.
1:38.3	And I tell stories about the half day that I spent with him all the time to people.
1:43.1	Guys, thank you very much for the invite.
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