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Barbell Shrugged

How To Target & Train Your Weaknesses W/ Mike Burgener

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

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

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

It wasn’t that long ago that we didn’t have iPhones in our pockets, let alone access to the world’s information at the click of a button. Back in the day, coaches and athletes had to figure shit out on their own.

Nowadays, the fitness industry is growing faster than ever, and with that comes new innovations and knowledge around training. That is mainly due to the fact that coaches and athletes are communicating and sharing their experience more and more.

We wanted to hear from one of the top coaches in the game on this topic, so we headed over to Bonsall, CA to visit Mike Burgener. Coach B has watched this evolution occur and has been apart of some of the biggest evolutions in the sport of weightlifting and strength training.

In this episode, Coach B shares his insights into the fitness industry as it is today, and tells stories of what it was like in the beginning. We talk about why most athletes who want to go from pretty good to competitive need to start focusing on training their weaknesses. Mike shares tactics and his philosophy around getting strong, the coaches that he works with, and how he gets his athletes to the next level.

If you want to learn how to break through your plateau’s and start understanding how to train your weaknesses, you need to drop in for this one.

Enjoy the show,

Mike

Transcript

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0:00.0

I know we've talked before about how CrossFit impacted it, but we want to talk about how

0:05.3

the internet has impacted it because until 10, 15 years ago, coaches and athletes weren't

0:12.0

talking to each other.

0:13.0

If somebody was in Louisiana, they weren't talking to people in California, and there was

0:17.4

secret training programs.

0:18.8

There were secret squat programs and snatch techniques that, and people were, they actually

0:25.2

didn't want to share, and a lot of that's changed.

0:28.7

How did people learn how to lift, say, 20, 30 years ago?

0:58.7

Well, going to barbell shrugged on Mike Blitz.

1:05.8

I have a Doug Larson and Andy Galpin and we have traveled to Bonzo, California, whole

1:12.5

30 minutes from home to have a coach Mike Bergner.

1:17.0

And today we're going to dig into all the secrets of the industry.

1:20.9

All the weightlifting secrets, we're going to peel back the curtain.

1:26.8

Coach B has all the secrets.

1:28.8

They're locked away in there.

1:29.8

We're going to dig them out.

1:30.8

I'm old enough now that I can say that, right?

1:32.8

I have all the secrets.

1:33.8

Well, we were talking about before the show, one of the things we wanted to dig into is

1:39.8

weightlifting has gone through a big change.

1:43.0

I know we've talked before about how CrossFit impacted it, but we want to talk about how

1:47.9

the internet has impacted it because until 10, 15 years ago, coaches and athletes weren't

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