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Iron Culture

Ep. 145 - Powerlifting & Strongman Training Before Social Media (ft. Chip Conrad)

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8827 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Are you useful? I don’t know, but we’ve got the author of this amazing book back on! That’s right, none other than physical culture revivalist Chip Conrad. This time, it’s storytime as we catch up with Chip after our last chat way back in July of 2019. Learn how he used to spend weekends at Mel Siff’s house talking exercise science in the sauna, how he interviewed all the strongmen champions competing at the Arnold Classic, how he has a more recent book that he wishes Omar and I would promote instead of his older one, and why he’s currently traveling across the US to train in the wilderness. 

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0:00.0

Eric, you know it's really annoying.

0:03.9

What?

0:05.1

When in a series, a television series, they make a reference to something, they allude to

0:09.2

something in a time past that they never then give the proper context.

0:14.0

So they're just dropping that reference.

0:15.4

Oh, man, you remember 1984 Christmas, Eric?

0:18.2

And you're like, hell yeah.

0:19.1

And then you never elucidate what happened during Christmas, 1984.

0:24.1

Like it just gets lost?

0:25.5

Yeah.

0:26.0

Yeah.

0:26.3

It just gets lost, lost in time.

0:28.8

And then the writers get mad when you accuse them of writing themselves into the ground.

0:34.5

We're not going to do that at the cult because all are neat narratives that we weave intricately, plan from the inception. Myself and Eric, the ground. We're not going to do that at the cult because all our neat narratives that we weave

0:38.3

intricately, plan for the inception. Myself and Eric, the lost writers would be astounded if they

0:43.3

saw our complex narrative structure that we outline together while sunbathing in a hot tub in

0:49.7

2018 in Toronto, the 10-year plan for Iron Cult.

1:00.9

One of those narrative arcs would be the legendary Chip Conrad and Are You Useful and the utility of Critical Thinking inside the fitness industry and outside of it.

1:06.9

It's all been part of the golden path, Omar. And we've got Chip Conrad back on.

1:12.8

And you'll remember that we were promoting the heck out of him.

1:17.6

In almost every episode where we've talked about people's conceptions of fitness versus the reality of what it could be or when people have accepted more limitations to the approach they're taking than maybe necessary.

1:28.6

Because Chip is a true free thinker in the fitness industry.

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