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Barbell Shrugged

The Biggest Lie in Strength and Why Kids Need to Be Lifting Weights Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash - Barbell Shrugged #499

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

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

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:

  1. Why are people so scared of kids lifting weights
  2. What does the research say about kids lifting weights
  3. When should you start having your kids lift weights
  4. Why is football is ok but a barbell is “dangerous”
  5. Why misinformation is scaring the public

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Doug Larson on Instagram

Coach Travis Mash on Instagram

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Short family this beautiful Monday you are going to hear your boy coast Travis mash go off on some people

0:07.1

And I've been lighten him up about his five year old lifting weights

0:12.1

And you know why I think he's mad because he knows his five year old is stronger than all the people

0:20.0

Mad at him on Twitter right now combined

0:23.6

Dang it doesn't give me fired up

0:25.6

Coast Travis mash is fired up starts letting people know how smart he is and how strong his kid is

0:32.5

But also a really important show on training youth athletes why it's okay for your kids to lift weights

0:39.2

Why maybe playing football and get bashed in the head over and over again?

0:43.6

May not be the best idea yet for some reason our society thinks it's okay for our kids to play football and

0:50.6

If you put a barbell in the hair and all of a sudden you're

0:54.1

Chopping off growth plates and your kids gonna be a

0:56.8

Tiny human who never grows. It's just ridiculous get all this bad information just continues to swarm the internet and

1:04.9

I'm really fired up with this show together before we get rolling though

1:09.8

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1:50.2

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