How getting hurt can improve your career w/ Nicole Torres- Active Life Radio #9
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Imagine this… You are working out like you always do, you reach down to deadlift the barbell one more time and, bang, your back goes out. You have pain like you have never experienced before. You crawl to your phone and call your spouse and friends to come help you because the pain is so bad. What goes through your mind?
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That's exactly what happened to Nicole's Active Life 1 on 1 client, Robert. Robert is a CrossFit Affiliate owner in Lakeland Florida. He owns Lift Lakeland, and it is in that gym that he found himself laid out, unable to move without intense pain.
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In this podcast we talk about how Nicole helped Robert go from having fear day to day around anything that included a hip hinge, to deadlifting, and olympic lifting again. And we also discuss how that experience changed the course of Robert's career forever.
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In this episode you will have the opportunity to hear how important this all was to Robert's wife. The thing about pain and injury is that too often we look at it as pain and injury to the body, and we do not consider the impact it has on the mind. In this episode, we put that concept in play.
Minute Breakdown:
0-10 - "I'm scared"
11-20 - Assessment results
21-30 - A handwritten letter from the Robert's wife
31-40 - 2 month in, pain is reduced, but still no deadlifts
41-50 - Most CrossFit gyms add volume, intensity, and frequency, too fast
51-60 - Teamwork makes the dream work
Work with an Active Life Coach like Nicole at activeliferx.com/shrugged
Find Nicole at @nt_thecrossfitspt
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Shrugged Collective is a network of fitness, health and performance shows that help people achieve their physical and mental health goals. Usually in the gym, but outside as well. In 2012 they posted their first Barbell Shrugged podcast and have been putting out weekly free videos and podcasts ever since.
Along the way we've created successful online coaching programs including The Shrugged Strength Challenge, The Muscle Gain Challenge, FLIGHT, Barbell Shredded, and Barbell Bikini.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:16.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm thrilled for having you. |
| 0:19.0 | Multiple places, both on the podcast, on the staff. |
| 0:22.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:23.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:24.0 | Thank you for sharing. |
| 0:25.0 | How do you feel? |
| 0:26.0 | Perfect. |
| 0:27.0 | What I'm excited to talk to you about today is one of your clients who you work with, |
| 0:32.0 | who owns a CrossFit affiliate, who has all of the education that he needs in terms of |
| 0:38.0 | strength and conditioning to be able to potentially help himself, who found himself stuck on the floor, |
| 0:45.0 | not being able to stand up because of back pain, and reached out to work with us, |
| 0:51.0 | set him up with you, and we're going to tell his story. |
| 0:56.0 | Sounds good. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, so I did speak to my client, Robert, and he was willing for me to use his name, |
| 1:06.0 | so we'll just go ahead and use his name as we're speaking. |
| 1:09.0 | But I started working with Robert, especially... |
| 1:12.0 | Hold on a second. |
| 1:13.0 | I don't want you to tell Rob's story. |
| 1:15.0 | Let's hear who you are. |
| 1:16.0 | Oh, we're talking about me. |
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