This week on Barbell Shrug, we're going to talk about getting hurt while doing MMA, weightlifting, and how to prevent it.

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Welcome to Barbell Shrug, I'm Mike Bletsett, here with Doug Larson, and our guest Dave Ferguson and Corey Lones.

Let's get a little history on both you guys. We're going to try to talk a little about injuries today.

And I think everyone in this room has had quite a few injuries.

Two of the most injury prone guys I know right here.

That's true. That's true.

We got Dave Ferguson, you own Memphis BJJ. You want to give us a little bit of history and things you've been injured on and all that kind of stuff.

Yeah. Well, history-wise as far as the gym goes, we've been in business nine years actually this month, started in a basement in Midtown.

This is more of a hobby, having fun, doing it with all my friends and competitors, and it's kind of turned into a business.

And just to clarify, this is an image.

Yeah, mixed martial arts gym. We do a lot of different things there. We do mixed martial arts.

Obviously, judo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, submission wrestling, boxing, Muay Thai kit boxing.

We have kids classes also, fitness kit boxing as well.

So we do a wide variety of martial arts and fitness classes.

Very cool. Yep. And what about your training history?

My training history. Well, I started off training in March of 96 with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Shortly thereafter, I started training Muay Thai kit boxing.

I started to compete in mixed martial arts in late 97 and turned professional in 99 and fought a bunch all over.

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