[The Enhanced Games] Redefining Athletic Boundaries w/ Dr. Guillermo Escalante, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Coach Travis Mash #757
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
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🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Dr. Escalante is currently a Professor of Kinesiology and Assistant Dean for the College of Natural Sciences at California State University, San Bernardino. He is a scholar in the areas of exercise science, sports nutrition, and sports medicine. His research interests include sports nutrition/supplementation, body composition assessment, physique enhancement, and sports injury prevention/rehabilitation. Dr. Escalante has over 75 peer-reviewed publications and abstracts in the fields of exercise science, sports nutrition, sports medicine, and kinesiology. He regularly presents at regional, national, and international conferences on his research and serves as a sports nutrition/exercise science consultant to various companies in the health/fitness/sports supplement space. Additionally, he has served as an expert witness in the areas of sports nutrition and sports medicine. Dr. Escalante has secured over $150,000 of internal funding to support his teaching and research as well as over $5 million in external funding as principal investigator or co-investigator through various businesses and agencies, inclusive of the US Department of Education and the US Department of Veteran Affairs.
Dr. Escalante holds a BS in Athletic Training with a Biology minor and an MBA with concentrations in Marketing and Healthcare Management from the University of La Verne. He also received a Doctor of Science in Athletic Training from Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions and is certified as an athletic trainer through the National Athletic Trainer’s Association (NATA), a strength and conditioning specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), and as a Sports Nutritionist through the International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN). In 2021, Dr. Escalante became one of only 36 fellows (out 36,000+ members) of the ISSN for his contributions in the field of sport nutrition. Dr. Escalante is an active member of the NATA, NSCA, and the ISSN. He serves as a reviewer and associate editor for the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition (JISSN), Vice-President for the ISSN, and chair of the NSCA Bodybuilding and Fitness Special Interest Group. He also serves as a reviewer for 8 major journals including the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research and the British Journal of Nutrition.
Dr. Escalante also has over 50 publications in mainstream fitness magazines and websites including Muscle & Fitness, Muscle & Fitness Hers, Bodybuilding.com, Muscular Development, and MuscleMag International Magazine. He has appeared on television, radio shows, and podcasts discussing fitness, health, bodybuilding, and performance enhancement drugs. He has been a competitive bodybuilder since 2000, a bodybuilding/physique coach since 2004, and was a bodybuilding judge and/or sports medicine provider for MuscleContest International from 2010-2019.
Prior to going into higher level education, Dr. Escalante owned and operated an outpatient orthopedic physical therapy and personal training business for 18 years and was an owner/operator of 2 World Gym franchises. He also served as interim head athletic trainer for East Los Angeles Community College, was a fitness/health consultant for the US Department of Defense, and was the Chief Operating Officer and Sports Medicine Coordinator for a large physical therapy/sports medicine practice in Southern California. Over the course of his 20+ year career, Dr. Escalante has had the opportunity to train, treat, coach, and/or consult with thousands of athletes and non-athletes alike inclusive of professional athletes in the NFL, MLB, NBA, LPGA, Olympians, and IFBB bodybuilders/physique competitors.
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| 0:00.0 | Shrud family this week on Barbell Shrug Dr. Guillermo Escalante is coming in and we are talking about |
| 0:06.3 | this new cool sport that's launching right after the Olympics 2025 called the |
| 0:11.5 | enhanced games in which there are no rules against performance |
| 0:15.8 | enhancement drugs which for all of you kind of meat heads out there that's |
| 0:20.9 | really cool because we get to see the craziest levels of when they take the |
| 0:25.2 | when they take the governor's off of performance essentially and things might get a little wild. |
| 0:29.1 | We might see lots of world records dropping. |
| 0:31.1 | It's also just a really cool time in this day and age like |
| 0:35.0 | there's large investors behind this thing like Peter Teal is buying into it. |
| 0:39.4 | There's there's big money backing it. I think that they might be able to make a real run at this and see what the public opinion or the public attraction is to something like the enhanced games where we get to see the Olympics in 2024 and then a year later we get to see all of the non-drug tested athletes going at it and see what the difference is between kind of the freaks of the freaks with the governor on and |
| 1:03.8 | what it looks like a year later when they take them off and they're able to |
| 1:06.5 | actually use some of the banned substances that the Olympics does not allow. |
| 1:10.8 | We actually have back-to- back interviews so this week and next |
| 1:13.2 | week we're going to be talking about this because it's kind of a brand new thing |
| 1:15.9 | that has hit the world and it's really exciting. I say it's exciting not because I |
| 1:19.6 | care so much about people doing performance enhancing drugs but I've always just kind of wondered what would happen if they didn't have the regulations like what does the top of the top do when they are allowed to also take the performance handing drugs and see how freaky we can make human beings. |
| 1:37.3 | It's all kind of their personal conquest to be at the very tip top of the sphere when it comes to our human performance and if you bring in |
| 1:46.7 | Exogenous substances to enhance your performance I guess we get to go see what the fastest man and woman in the world is without the limitations. |
| 1:56.9 | So it kind of, it peaks the interest on my meathead self of what, answering the big question of kind of of like, what does it look like if we if we are allowed to do everything and |
| 2:06.4 | there are no rules it also is kind of a new angle on sports and with this all |
| 2:11.6 | coming around the Olympics time it's kind of a hot topic so |
| 2:14.4 | this weekend next week we're spending a little time talking about steroids and |
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