Heart Attack Awareness for Fit People w/ Joel Jamieson, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash #792
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Joel Jamieson is widely considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on strength and conditioning for combat sports, having trained many of the sports best athletes since 2004. He is the author of the bestselling book Ultimate MMA Conditioning and is a contributing writer to several top magazines and a frequent guest speaker at conferences and seminars all over the world.
Joel has worked with and consulted extensively for teams and organizations ranging from Navy SEALS to Life Time Fitness and his BioForce HRV system is used by teams in the NFL, NBA, MLS, NCAA, and more. He is best known for an individualized approach that is both based on solid science and yet practical to apply.
Joel created 8WeeksOut in 2009 to help clear up the misinformation and confusion surrounding energy systems. Since then, the site has become one of the authorities on strength, conditioning, and performance.
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| 0:00.0 | Shrug family this week on Barbell Strug, Joel Jamison is coming into the podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | Some of you may have known Joel from his website eight weeks out or HRV or Morpheus or just being super famous and in this industry for an enormously long time doing super high quality work. |
| 0:18.2 | And today a very important message on all things heart attacks and |
| 0:24.0 | cardiovascular health for fit people Joel has been in this industry and doing all of the right |
| 0:30.5 | things and eating all of his vegetables and proteins and thinking about his health and then went in |
| 0:35.3 | to go get a checkup on his heart to find out that he |
| 0:39.6 | was in bad shape and very high risk like 50% blockage, very high risk for having a heart |
| 0:47.0 | attack, which as a fitness professional, somebody that's been doing this almost 30 years and |
| 0:52.8 | almost never taken any longer than like a week |
| 0:56.1 | vacation is absolutely terrifying because I feel like my whole world would shatter if somebody |
| 1:02.8 | told me that I was unhealthy like it would just destroy me and that came through in this |
| 1:08.5 | podcast with him that it very much caught him by surprise and now |
| 1:12.1 | he's like on a mission to go get everybody checked. |
| 1:15.3 | So go get your calcium scores, go take a deep dive into heart health, check in with your |
| 1:19.7 | doctor. |
| 1:20.7 | I know that this show made me very much rethink all of those things that I thought I was |
| 1:26.5 | above because of the decisions I make on a daily |
| 1:28.5 | basis. But I highly recommend it and hopefully the show guide you to go take those steps. |
| 1:33.7 | And as always, friends, once you've gotten that done and you would like to go optimize your |
| 1:37.7 | health and performance, head over to rapid health report.com. That is where Dr. Andy Galpin and |
| 1:41.9 | Dan Garner are doing a free lab, lifestyle, and performance |
| 1:44.8 | analysis. |
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