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Barbell Shrugged

Flexible Cardio for People that Hate Cardio w/ Dr. Michael T. Nelson, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash #797

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Business, Training, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Paleo, Weightlifting, Nutrition, Crossfit

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Mike T. Nelson has spent 18 years of his life learning how the human body works, specifically focusing on how to properly condition it to burn fat and become stronger, more flexible, and healthier.

He’s been called in to share his techniques with top government agencies, universities and colleges, fitness organizations and fanatics. The techniques he’s developed, and the results Mike gets for his clients have been featured in international magazines, in scientific publications, and on websites across the globe.

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Links:

Cardio for Meatheads Course

Dr. Nelson Website

Anders Varner on Instagram

Doug Larson on Instagram

Coach Travis Mash on Instagram

Transcript

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0:00.0

Shrug family this week on Barbell Shrug, Dr. Michael T. Nelson coming back on the show.

0:04.6

This is like the 11th billionth time he's been on and every time I get so stoked.

0:09.2

Not only has he been my coach in the past, but today we're talking about how people that don't

0:13.8

like cardio should build cardio programs into their training. And a lot of this stuff goes back

0:18.6

to when he was training me to run a six minute

0:21.2

mile and the benefits that I felt in the gym as far as like strength training go, as well as the

0:27.4

long-term impact that it has had by building a really solid cardiovascular system. And I think that

0:34.2

this is a very important show because there's this weird stigma for people

0:38.8

that like lifting weights are like cardio is going to kill you and the truth is the better of an

0:42.7

engine you build the better everything gets including how you feel how strong you are your

0:47.7

recovery in every aspect it is going to help you perform and dr. Nelson breaks that down today

0:53.2

as always friends make sure you get over to rapid health report.com.

0:57.1

That is where Dan Garner and Dr. Andy Albin are doing a free lab, lifestyle, and performance

1:00.7

analysis.

1:01.4

And you can access that over at rapid health report.com.

1:04.8

Friends, let's get into the show.

1:08.5

Welcome to Marvelloushark.

1:09.5

I'm Anders-Martin.

1:10.1

Doug Larson, Dr. Michael T. Nelson. My man,

1:13.2

yo, yesterday or not yesterday, last week we interviewed Mark Sisson. The last time we got to see him or hang out with him was down in PaleoFX.

1:26.1

That's right. Dude, do you that that it's been like eight years

1:31.1

since we were all down there that's that seems so weird it doesn't seem like it was that long ago

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