Special Warfare: Do You Have What it Takes w/ Tyler Christiansen, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Coach Travis Mash - Barbell Shrugged #568

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

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🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

To become a member of the U.S. Air Force’s elite Special Warfare team, you have to be a part of the top one percent of the top one percent.

And no one knows better about what it takes to do that than Tyler Christiansen, Human Performance Director for the Special Warfare Training Support Group.

On the latest Barbell Shrugged podcast Anders Verner talks with Tyler about the intense training these Airmen go through and how the Air Force prepares them both mentally and physically for the types of missions no one hears about.

These specialists are often embedded with other special ops teams like the Navy Seals and Army Rangers so they have to be able to do everything they can and then some.

To learn more about Special Warfare, visit at airforce.com and make sure to check out the latest Barbell Shrugged podcast available at barbellshrugged.com.

In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:

How do you prepare for special warfare training
What performance metrics are monitored by try USAF
What lifestyle metrics are tracked
How to build a strength training program for special warfare
How is that program built for performance with such a broad skill set

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Coach Travis Mash on Instagram

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Shark Family this week on Barbell Shrug J.D. Sheffield
0:04.1	String Conditioning at Special Warfare again for US Air Force as well as Tyler
0:08.6	Christiansen who is the human performance director at the US Air Force
0:12.3	focused on the Special Warfare. This is one of three
0:17.7	interviews podcasts that we filmed with US Air Force highlighting their
0:23.5	training how they ramp up their training how they really are just
0:29.8	all complete total bad asses and what it takes to get everybody ramped up. I
0:36.4	mean if you've ever seen a professional athlete I think that when it comes to
0:41.4	the special warfare people of the US Air Force they even have a bigger
0:44.1	better better training systems because if we prepared for so much more than
0:48.2	just like on the field or on the ice or wherever that professional athlete is
0:52.5	playing when you when you listen to these and how they structure strength
0:57.2	training programs for special warfare it's very very cool and if you are
1:02.4	interested in checking out the US Air Force special warfare I highly
1:06.9	recommend heading over to Air Force dot com finding your local recruiter
1:12.1	getting in there we're honored to have the ability to tell these stories
1:15.9	interview these people and get the word out about the US Air Force special
1:19.6	warfare it's a really cool partnership we've done it for multiple years now
1:23.1	and it's very cool to to be able to meet these people that are putting their lives
1:28.0	on line and also training and living at their their highest potential into
1:34.6	to actually see and understand the the training programs that go into
1:38.4	creating special warfare units in US Air Force. If you like I said get over to
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