From Olympics to Bodybuilding - Playing on the Biggest Stages in the World w/ Christian Thibaudeau - The Barbell Life
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Christian Thibaudeau is a Canadian Olympian and strength training coach from Montreal, Canada. He gained fame in the late 1990’s as a contributor to the online bodybuilding magazine, Iron Mag.
Christian has long been one of the most respected coaches and online writers in the business. He’s trained athletes in 26 sports, written hundreds of articles and has competed at the Olympic games.
After a serious injury which ended his competitive lifting career, Christian began to move into personal training and online fitness writing. He also began to train for purely aesthetic reasons for the first time.
Trading the Olympic platform for the competitive bodybuilding stage, Christian has become a well-respected personal trainer who’s advised a number of athlete’s on their progression.
Christian Thibaudeau on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | Strike family, I'm in Halbstad Sweden and we just wrapped the one-ton challenge at CrossFit Halbstad. |
| 0:05.3 | If you have never been out here, go hang out with them. They're the coolest strongest people in the game |
| 0:10.1 | and we just put a whole ton of people into the one-ton club life is so good. Got to spend 48 hours hanging out at a |
| 0:16.6 | Lake O'Barbell. If you have never lifted weights on an O'Lake O'Barbell, you're just missing out. |
| 0:21.6 | It's the most beautiful, most well-built, |
| 0:24.3 | I can't even believe the amount of engineering and attention to detail that goes into this barbell. |
| 0:30.5 | Perfectly balanced. If you've ever grabbed one, the neural is just beautiful. |
| 0:36.2 | It's butter. Every time the barbell just gets into your hip and what's so cool about it, |
| 0:39.7 | their whole purpose to making it is to be best in class, which means that to them, when they grab the barbell, |
| 0:47.6 | they want it to be an extension of your body. You don't want to be thinking about how this barbell is designed |
| 0:53.4 | and they want it to feel like a piece of your body, which is just so epic to me. |
| 0:58.4 | It says, as soon as you walk in the door, best in class. That's incredible. That's such a good goal for a company |
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| 1:55.4 | Friends, we're going to get into it. The barbell life. Coach Travis Mash. |
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