Chris Duffin: Getting Comfortable With Feeling Uncomfortable, Muscle Growth, and Blood Flow Restriction

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 923 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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What did you learn from the challenges you surpassed? Do you think that self-confidence is key to “winning” or thriving in life? In this episode of the Align Podcast, Chris Duffin and I chat about the challenging and uncomfortable situations that we may face in our lives and how surpassing those is the only way for us to grow both mentally, but physically too. In fact, the same can be said about your muscles. We also talk about Chris’ impressive training techniques that have been tested and clinically proven to get the results most people are looking for when weight lifting, but with less weight and less training time. Known as the BFR (blood flow restriction) method, this allows your body to actively flush your body’s toxins and forces both lymphatic and blood drainage. In fact, this method reduces the blood flow in your body to an area, provoking deep muscle fatigue sooner. This causes hypertrophy, which is an increase and growth of your muscle. Chris Duffin is an inventor, thought leader, and serial entrepreneur in Health and Fitness. He has Co-Founded multiple prominent brands the largest of which, Kabuki Strength. Chris has invented multiple ‘game-changing’ products improving human biomechanics under load, as well as systemized approaches to assessing and correcting human movement dysfunctions. Find out more about Chris: Website: christopherduffin.com Book: The Eagle and the Dragon: A Story of Strength and Reinvention Instagram:@mad_scientist_duffin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Lion Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we bring together the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind, your body, and your movement.
0:11.0	Today's beautiful conversation was with my new friend Chris
0:14.8	Duffin. Chris is someone that I have been following for years. He's literally one of the
0:19.0	strongest human beings on the planet. He's the only guy to have ever deadlifted and squatted 1,000 pounds.
0:28.0	Not only did he deadlift and squat 1,000 pounds, but he did them both for repetitions,
0:32.0	which is an insane feet of strength and also kind of goes
0:36.4	against most laws of mechanics in the body. So typically if someone has a big
0:40.9	deadlift then they're not going to squat so well.
0:43.2	If they have a big squat, then it might be a little bit more limited.
0:45.6	Then we'll be able to create leverage in the deadlift.
0:48.8	But he figured out a way to crack that coat.
0:51.5	He's just a brilliant mind in general. He has a very fascinating story.
0:55.0	He grew up without a home essentially and had a very checkered history in the way that he grew up.
1:01.4	So his journey from getting where he was to where he is today
1:05.6	is incredibly fascinating, incredibly inspiring, and I'm so grateful and excited to share that journey with you guys today. We get into a lot of specifics of how to get
1:14.5	stronger, how to heal your muscles and your body and your nervous system, and there's some
1:19.2	philosophical bits and this is a really beautiful far spanning conversations so I think you guys are going to enjoy it.
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1:38.0	Also our reviews, anywhere you listen to this are great.
1:41.0	You can share it on the Instagram, share it on the Facebook, whatever you do. I hope
1:45.2	you are having a fantastic day and I hope this conversation is inspiring and supportive to you.
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