The Bledsoe Show — Anders Varner: Guiding Coaches to Their Greatness — 101
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2018
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Anders Varner is the host of Barbell Shrugged, and co-creator of The Low Back Fix, The Knee Fix, and The Shoulder Fix. Anders found the weight room at age 13 and decided he would call it home for the rest of his life.
A four-time CrossFit regional competitor and member of John Cena's "One Ton Club", Anders has trained with and coached high level athletes from the worlds of the NFL, WWE, and CrossFit.
In this episode, Anders gives a talk about two important skills: Greatness and coaching. He goes into how these skills can be learned and developed, and how we can build programs and systems to help coaches develop greatness. During the talk, Anders covers 3 main areas: The pillars, vision casting, and mentorship, and he closes the talk with 3 actionable steps that you can apply immediately.
To learn more about greatness and coaching, go to the The Strong Coach.
Enjoy!
- Mike
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| 0:00.0 | If you've been listening long enough, then you definitely know that I care a lot about |
| 0:06.8 | improving how I think. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm really focusing on my mind. |
| 0:11.0 | I train my mind like I do my body. |
| 0:14.0 | And I imagine that you're interested in the same type of stuff. |
| 0:17.6 | And we definitely take supplements for our bodies. |
| 0:20.9 | And I think we're just now getting into an era where taking supplements for the brain |
| 0:27.2 | so that we can better improve what's happening there so that we can have better mental performance, |
| 0:33.6 | mental cognition, creativity. |
| 0:36.8 | And the company that I think is doing it the very best is Neurohacker Collective. |
| 0:41.6 | And if you go to Neurohacker.com, you can check out everything they have going on. |
| 0:44.8 | I've been taking their products for a couple of years now. |
| 0:48.1 | That's, I know one of the founders and the guy who developed the products. |
| 0:53.7 | And the intent is that this not only helps you improve what's going on the day of when |
| 0:59.4 | you take it, but it also helps improve the hardware of your brain over time. |
| 1:04.0 | So it's meant to be something that you don't have to take forever. |
| 1:07.9 | So it also improves, not only does it improve focus, but it improves creativity and things |
| 1:12.6 | like empathy as well because not only is it focused on what's happening at the brain, |
| 1:18.5 | it is really focused on making a better brain body connection. |
| 1:24.5 | And that's if you ever had the experience of taking really nice neutropics or anything |
| 1:31.5 | like that before or have a deep meditation practice, then you know what that's like to |
| 1:35.6 | have that mind body connection where everything settles down and everything gets quiet. |
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