Ep. 526 - Chris “The Mad Scientist” Duffin of Kabuki Strength
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Cody McBroom
4.9 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Chris Duffin is a man that is hard to describe in one way... Athlete who squatted AND deadlifted over 1,000lbs each, engineer turned specialty barbell creator, professional coach, entrepreneur, business owner, author... you name it, he's done it and been successful at it. Which is why he makes such a powerful guest! Listen in to learn how he got so strong, started the top barbell company in the world, wrote a book, and triumphed from a childhood that seems fake it's so insane.
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Timestamps:
3:27 - What made you start Kabuki Strength?
16:05 - What created Chris’ nickname “The Mad Scientist”
24:30 - Importance of combining science with real experience
29:35 - What made Chris want to deadlift and squat 1000lbs
34:20 - Chris’ book - The Eagle and the Dragon: A Story of Strength and Reinvention
41:30 - Your environment doesn’t control who you are.
49:15 - First people to influence Chris
56:05 - Where to find Chris and all of his content.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Boom Boom Performance podcast, your resource for science-based training and |
| 0:10.3 | nutrition, data-driven coaching, and education-focused content. Before we get into this podcast, |
| 0:16.0 | I just want to say thank you for taking the time to listen and learn with me so that you can |
| 0:20.5 | apply what you are about to learn, take my strategies, use these tools, and finally have some serious methods to see sustainable success with your physique, your mind, and your life. |
| 0:31.9 | This podcast was built on the foundation of applied education, and I'm excited for you to be here so you can have that |
| 0:38.7 | experience with me. Now, without any further ado, let's get on to the show. |
| 0:47.0 | Today's guess is Chris Duffin, better known and more commonly known as the mad scientist of strength. |
| 0:55.0 | And Chris Duffin owns Kabuki Strength. |
| 0:57.0 | He is one of the founders of that company, amongst many others. |
| 1:02.0 | So what you will learn today is that he is a serial entrepreneur, a very successful |
| 1:07.0 | serial entrepreneur. |
| 1:08.0 | He does quite a bit of different things, but his main passion is strength, |
| 1:11.6 | sport, strength training, coaching, building amazing barbells that you can use in the gym based on |
| 1:18.1 | his engineering background, which is what kind of gave him the creative and the knowledge around |
| 1:21.9 | physics on how to create these barbells to eliminate pain. There's, I mean, there's people out there |
| 1:26.4 | that literally can't bench press because of shoulder pain and shoulder's, I mean, there's people out there that literally can't |
| 1:27.7 | bench press because of shoulder pain and shoulder injuries, but they can bench press as long as they |
| 1:31.7 | use one of his bars. And it's, it's the most empowering thing for lifters who have injuries over the |
| 1:37.4 | years that they can't really control at this point. They're old injuries that resurfaced. Chris kind of |
| 1:42.5 | gives you a route to get back into the gym. |
| 1:51.1 | And for people like myself, who, whether you're young or old, maybe you don't have a ton of injuries, but you don't want to get injuries because you love training and you want to continue |
| 1:55.0 | training for a long period of time. |
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