The Bledsoe Show — Max Shank: Athleticism Makes Life Easier — 69
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2018
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Max Shank is owner and head coach at Ambition Athletics, where people become muscular ninjas. He is also a teacher of world class coaches and athletes and has taught 100+ courses around the world.
Max is also creator #5minuteflow and has written 3 books: Ultimate Athleticism, Simple Shoulder Solution, and Master the Kettlebell.
I like to experiment and explore the human condition. Fitness is my primary method of developing life-altering skills. In addition, I’ve picked up guitar, piano, and drums as an adult.
In this episode, Max shares with us why he is focused on athleticism rather than strength, what it means to be strong enough, why we all need to work more easily, how 5 min a day of practice can make a huge long-lasting impact, and much more.
Enjoy!
-Mike
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there ladies and gentlemen this is Doug Larson, co-host of the Barbell Shrug Podcast of course. |
| 0:04.3 | This week only we are doing a 50% off sale for a nutrition course that I developed called nutrition |
| 0:09.0 | for weight lifters for years that competed in weight lifting at either 85 kilo which is 187 pounds |
| 0:14.4 | or as high as 94 kilo which is 207 pounds while simultaneously competing in mixed martial arts as a |
| 0:20.0 | Walter weight at 170 pounds. That's a 37 pound swing and I was always going up and down. I got |
| 0:26.0 | very good at manipulating my weight to hit my weight classes depending on which competition was |
| 0:30.8 | coming up next. So that's all built into this course how exactly I did that how I put on muscle |
| 0:36.5 | mass when I needed to get bigger how I lost body fat when I needed to get smaller and how I kept |
| 0:40.3 | strong and stayed in shape during the process. So I teach you what to eat, how much to eat, |
| 0:45.3 | when to eat it, how to count your macros, what to eat before during after training as well as |
| 0:49.2 | what to eat before during and after competition. If you're interested you can go to shruggedcollective.com, |
| 0:55.2 | slash n4w like nutrition for weight lifters and the number four nw just three characters, |
| 1:02.2 | check it out 50% off and enjoy the show. Welcome to the Bloodsau Show, this is your host Mike |
| 1:08.5 | Bletsau and I want to let you know that I'm hitting the East Coast for three weekends. So May 26th |
| 1:15.0 | in North Carolina, June 2nd in Richmond, Virginia and June 9th in Boston, Massachusetts. If you want |
| 1:21.9 | to sign up for any of the seminars that I'm doing, I don't know what I'm going to be hitting the |
| 1:26.0 | East Coast again. So make sure you get there, go to shrugcollective.com and click on the events page. |
| 1:32.5 | On that events page you can see where I'm going, where I'm at, it may not even be the East Coast by |
| 1:37.6 | the time you look at it. But check out those events if it resonates with you, get signed up. |
| 1:43.4 | Now today's show is with Matt Shank, he's the owner and head coach at Enbition Athletics, |
| 1:49.3 | where people become muscular ninjas. He is a teacher of world class coaches and athletes and |
| 1:56.4 | has taught over 100 courses around the world. He's also the creator of Five Minute Flow and has written |
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