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Barbell Shrugged

Cardio and Competition for Mature Meatheads w/ Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash #803

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

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

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In todays Episode of Barbell Shrugged, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash dive into Mash partnership with Sorinex and the success of Spring Cleaning in April.

In addition, Mash is going back to the platform in powerlifting and the team discussed the differences in training and mindset competing in their 40’s and 50’ vs their 20’s.

And finally, the deep dive into getting out of the gym, intelligently training cardiovascular system, and how great it feels for overall health being in nature.

Enjoy.

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Links:

Anders Varner on Instagram

Doug Larson on Instagram

Coach Travis Mash on Instagram

Transcript

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0:00.0

Shrug family this week on Barb Bell Shrug.

0:03.0

It's me and MASH and Doug Larson and we're talking about everything that we have going on in our own training.

0:08.0

As well as Travis MASH, I hope you guys are paying attention to SorenX a couple months ago.

0:13.0

In the month of April, Travis was in charge of spring cleaning, which was getting thousands and thousands of people around the country, possibly even around the globe,

0:21.9

introduced to the clean, 30 days of cleans. He wrote the training program for it. And it was,

0:26.6

if you're following him on Instagram, there was like an enormous number of stories that came

0:30.6

up of everybody from the beginners to the very experience to Olympic athletes. Just a ton of people

0:37.3

out there learning.

0:38.3

One of my favorite things to do in the gym, which is cleans.

0:42.3

It was very cool.

0:43.3

And we talk a lot about it, progressions and pieces along those lines.

0:46.3

As well as just where we are at in our training, the cardio conditioning side of things,

0:51.3

getting out in nature, really how as we have all aged, as we have all gotten

0:58.1

older, called maturity, how we have taken the fitness side and used it in a much more experiential

1:05.0

way to do the things that we love that are a little bit more challenging, that have we not

1:09.2

spent so many years in the gym and so many years learning about exercise science and physiology to be as healthy as we can,

1:18.1

that we would not be able to enjoy life as much as we currently do.

1:21.7

As always, friends, make sure you get over to rapid health report.com.

1:24.7

That's where Dan Garner and Dr. Andy Galvin are doing a free lab,

1:29.0

lifestyle, and performance analysis.

1:32.8

And you can access that free report at rapidhealthreport.com.

1:34.3

Friends, let's get into the show.

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