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Barbell Shrugged

Cal Strength and How to Build a World Class Training Facility w/ Dave Spitz, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Coach Travis Mash Barbell Shrugged #600

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

California Strength has dominated the United States Olympic weightlifting landscape, producing numerous National Team Titles, American Records and earning medal recognition on the international stage. CEO and Founder Dave Spitz holds recognition as one of the few USA Weightlifting Senior International Coaches in the country and is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist.

 

In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:

  1. Taking a leap of faith to make the Olympics
  2. Finding a coach before the internet
  3. How to build a program with a winning culture
  4. How Wes Kitts is training for the Olympics
  5. The Olympic dream and the pursuit of gold

 

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Anders Varner on Instagram

Doug Larson on Instagram

Coach Travis Mash on Instagram

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Shrugged family, it's the Olympics and Team USA is kicking ass in

0:05.3

Tokyo right now and it's really cool to watch and one of the athletes that's competing is an old shrug listener

0:12.6

Not shrug listener, maybe he's a listener probably is a listener. He should be a listener

0:17.6

But an old guest West Kits one of the strongest human beings in the entire planet

0:22.6

You've never seen that dude lift weights. I highly recommend you tuning in checking him out and his coach today

0:27.8

Dave spits the godfather of weightlifting owner and founder of cow strength is on the show and we're talking about him

0:36.5

taking his

0:37.8

LEEP of faith leaving the corporate world

0:41.0

We're at all the money and chasing the barbell to be able to go to the Olympics himself finding a coach before

0:47.2

The internet existed where everybody was all connected. It was easy to find coaches

0:51.1

How he was able to get people like imported into the country to help him train

0:54.9

Building a program with the winning culture how West Kits is training for the Olympics with the five-year

1:01.2

Quad this year

1:03.2

And then his pursuit of the Olympic dream and gold medals. It's a really cool episode. Dave is

1:12.1

He really is one of the the leading brains in this industry and it's very very cool to have him on the show and

1:19.8

Super grateful before we get into the show

1:21.4

We got to think our sponsors or getify most of us could use more energy in our day

1:24.8

But caffeine can only do so much at some point

1:27.7

We need to look at the root causes of our fatigue. It turns out two main factors are

1:32.8

low energy and chronic stress and a lack of nutrition

1:37.7

Organify creates delicious super food blends that address both of these problems

1:42.3

They use adaptogenic herbs and mushrooms to help balance cortisol levels

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