Ep 593: Barbell Sins Beginners Commit
Power Athlete Radio
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🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The worst sin a coach can commit against their athlete: starting a beginner off on an experienced athlete program. Introducing the barbell to an athlete for the first time and applying the appropriate program will do wonders to unlock their athletic potential and empower their performance for years to come.
Power Athlete Block One Coach Carl Case [@carlcase] joins John and Tex to discuss his coaching journey and how he applies the Bedrock training program to his high school athletes. Bedrock is our foundational strength and conditioning program created to unleash unparalleled strength, speed, and power gains for athletes new to the barbell. Learn how to (and how not to) apply this program and common pitfalls coaches fall into when training beginners.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into Power Athlete Radio, featuring The Crew, |
| 0:11.7 | where a former pro football player and a D3 All-Star use strength and conditioning |
| 0:16.0 | as an excuse to talk about anything but. Now, here's John and Tex. |
| 0:27.8 | We're getting into bedrock. |
| 0:32.2 | In a great way to acquire partners in life is to look good, get jacked, and be strong, right? |
| 0:35.5 | Yeah, I mean, it's worked out for some of us. |
| 0:39.0 | Every one of us, I mean, I don't know why you started lifting weights, but it's definitely |
| 0:42.3 | the reason I started lifting weights. |
| 0:43.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.8 | Well, then let's explore because we provide the perfect program opportunity for those people |
| 0:50.2 | looking to get jacked, strong strong and be very useful. |
| 0:54.4 | It's a lot easier to get strong, or I'm sorry, it's more beneficial or it's easier |
| 0:58.7 | to get jacked if you're already strong. |
| 1:01.6 | So I think what happens a lot of times is people have this idea they want to put on muscle |
| 1:05.1 | and they want to get bigger and stronger. |
| 1:06.7 | And I think it's a great endeavor and I'm 100% behind it. |
| 1:10.2 | It just helps to be strong. |
| 1:12.8 | It's hard to put on massive amounts of hypertrophy and look fucking jacked without being strong first. |
| 1:18.0 | It's a lot easier to get somebody pretty strong, have a move of pretty well and then if we |
| 1:22.4 | want to diet them down a little bit, it's a little bit easier than trying to have a guy who's, you know, afraid of getting strong. |
| 1:29.5 | So I think a lot of times where, you know, I've had people come to me and said, hey, dude, I want to put on muscle. |
| 1:33.5 | I want to be jacked. |
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