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Barbell Shrugged

How Coronavirus Has Affected the Fitness Industry, Gym Owners, Athletes, and How you Can Maximize Your Time In Social Isolation w/ Anders Varner, Doug Larson and Travis Mash - Barbell Shrugged #451

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

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

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Host the One Ton Challenge at your gym: http://shruggedstrengthgym.com

In today’s episode the crew discuss the mindset of a strength athlete.

How will the Olympics happen and unite the world?

The state of gym owners in these hard times

Transitioning to online personal training and nutrition clients

Why this is the best time to get in the best shape of your life

Why you should try new things now

What is the long term state of fitness if this continues

And more…

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Doug Larson on Instagram

Travis Mash on Instagram

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Aerobic Monster - 12 week conditioning, long metcons, and pacing strategy

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Short family, me, Doug Larson, Coach Travis Mash,

0:05.0

rapping on the coronavirus.

0:07.0

Last Wednesday, I told you that we were hopping in a car,

0:12.0

sprinting to NOSFILT Tennessee to shoot a ton of shows,

0:15.0

and the boys came together and realized that we should not do that.

0:21.0

We are cooped up in our house, we did the social isolation,

0:24.0

isolation, we are not leaving, we're all in our garage gyms,

0:29.0

training, we're with you.

0:32.0

We're doing the same thing, everyone should be doing,

0:36.0

and trying to help flatten the curve and calm this thing down

0:41.0

as much as possible to minimize the damage.

0:45.0

And with that, we're doing shows online right now.

0:48.0

The very first one is just very telling in that we are affected

0:54.0

by this thing just like everybody else.

0:56.0

Doug lives in Memphis, I'm in Raleigh, North Carolina,

0:59.0

Travis Mash is in Winston-Tail in North Carolina,

1:02.0

and we are taking the show online here for the very near future.

1:09.0

We'll be back on the road as soon as really the government

1:13.0

allows us to in this whole thing passes.

1:17.0

But we're online, and the shows are still fire,

1:22.0

we're still recording, we're still talking strength,

1:25.0

we're still laughing a lot, we're still bringing all the love

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