Switching Goals: CrossFitter To Weightlifter (and Vice Versa) - 224
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2016
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Alex and McG talk about their recent swaps in training goals. McG going from long time CrossFit athlete to doing his first Olympic Weightlifting competition, and Alex going from years of weightlifting to doing his first CrossFit competition. What did they learn? What had to change? How did nutrition play a role?
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| 0:00.0 | This week on Barbell Shrug, Alex Maclin and I do the old switcheroo, |
| 0:03.2 | aka Trading Places, aka Dan Acroid, versus... |
| 0:06.3 | Eddie Murphy. |
| 0:07.1 | Whoa! |
| 0:08.1 | What does that mean though? |
| 0:09.1 | Hey, this is Rich Froning, you're listening to Barbell Shrugged |
| 0:11.6 | for the video version, go to BarbellShrug.com |
| 0:13.8 | Up with just tens? |
| 0:15.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:15.5 | Probably. |
| 0:16.3 | But if you've got like tens and 20s and whatever the fuck on there, |
| 0:20.0 | like, you've got a lot of surface area. |
| 0:22.5 | I don't think any... |
| 0:23.5 | I think people just make claims without even actually looking at any kind of like physics, |
| 0:28.5 | like they don't have physics background, I don't really know what you should about like stress and engineering and fucking math. |
| 0:34.0 | And you're just like making your logical assumption based on whatever you think |
| 0:37.5 | and you just don't want your people to do it. |
| 0:39.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.5 | Rant over. |
| 0:42.5 | I just want to see it one time when you have a bunch of plates on, |
| 0:46.5 | like somebody drops it in like the place, just fucking explode. |
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