Peaking to be the Strongest Human in the World with Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash — Barbell Shrugged #405
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The final mesocycle of the One Ton Challenge is a 4 week peak cycle to prepare you to enter the One Ton Club totaling 2,000 (1,2000) in the snatch, clean, jerk, squat, deadlift, and bench press. The leak cycle prepares you to have the strength and conditioning to hit 6 max effort lifts in a short time period. In this episode of Barbell Shrugged, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Coach Travis Mash outline the programming, mindset, and strategy to peaking for the one ton challenge.
Minute Breakdown:
0-10 – How to you write a peak cycle
11-20 – Nutrition for peak cycle
21-30 – The hallmark of a great strength and conditioning gym
31-40 – Doing the One Ton Challenge at your gym
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| 0:00.0 | Friday, August 2nd, one-ton challenge live, presented by Fidayd live at the CrossFit Games. |
| 0:06.5 | Truck family, get to the CrossFit Games. |
| 0:09.4 | We have 20 of the strongest people in the country coming to Madison, Wisconsin to blow |
| 0:14.5 | the roof off the one-ton challenge. |
| 0:16.6 | We're going to see how far we can push strength. |
| 0:18.9 | Friday, August 2nd from 5 to 7 pm in the Fidayde beer garden. |
| 0:23.4 | And that's not the only announcement. |
| 0:24.7 | We have three brand new shows coming on next week. |
| 0:27.7 | The business of fitness with Jason Calipa for gym owners and coaches looking to grow |
| 0:33.1 | their business, the NC Fit app, as the number one place and the best podcast in the game |
| 0:38.2 | to do that is the business of fitness with Jason Calipa. |
| 0:41.9 | We also have active life radio with Dr. Sean Paschtoge coming on Fridays. |
| 0:48.6 | Dr. Sean Paschtoge is a leader in online physical rehabilitation, making sure that you can |
| 0:55.0 | stay in the gym without having to go to the doctor. |
| 0:57.7 | We're going to be providing all the rehab information through active life radio coming |
| 1:02.3 | to you next Friday. |
| 1:04.5 | Also on Sundays, the Barbell Life with Travis Masch, the writer of the one-ton challenge |
| 1:10.5 | strength program. |
| 1:11.5 | We're so excited about all these shows dropping. |
| 1:14.1 | That's Monday, business of fitness with Jason Calipa, real Tuesday, real chalk with Ryan |
| 1:19.3 | Fisher, Wednesday, Barbell Shrug with me and Doug Larson, Thursday, Muscle Maven with |
| 1:24.5 | Ashley Van Halton, Friday, active life radio with Dr. Sean Paschtoge, Saturday, sometimes |
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