The Gift of the Coaches Eye, Gear vs. Raw Powerlifting, and Crossfit's Advancement of the Sport of Powerlifting w/ C.J. Murphy — Barbell Shrugged #374
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2019
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
C.J. Murphy (@tpsmethod) is the owner of Total Performance Sports and the creator of the Total Performance Method and the Total Performance Method for Powerlifting (tpsmethod.com). His gym was featured as one of America's 20 Best Gyms – twice. Murphy is on the Advisory Board for Men's Fitness magazine and Muscle and Fitness magazine. C.J. has almost 30 years' experience as a coach, athlete, and certified nutritionist. Murph is a retired Strongman competitor and former National Powerlifting Champion.
In this episode of Barbell Shrugged, we talk with CJ about the difference between powerlifting federations and the personalities that are attracted to them, the evolution of women in powerlifting, how Crossfit benefited the fitness and strength industry, the benefit of RPR for performance, and why no one cares how much you lift if you're not a good person.
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Episode Breakdown: The gift of the coaches eye, gear vs. raw powerlifting, and Crossfit's advancement of the sport of powerlifting
⚡️0-10: Gear vs. Raw lifting
⚡️11-20: The difference between powerlifting federations and the personalities that are attracted to them
⚡️21-30: How to make any situation work for you
⚡️31-40: The broken old man mode and nutrition for powerlifting
⚡️ 41-50: CJ's competition history and the culture of his gym
⚡️51-60: The collection of dope powerlifting gear in CJ's gym
⚡️61-70: The evolution of women in powerlifting and the good Crossfit did for the fitness and strength industry
⚡️71-80: The gift of the coaches eye
⚡️81-90: Creating a higher standard for what is normal and an intro to reflex performance reset (RPR)
⚡️91-100: The benefit of RPR for performance
⚡️101-110: No one gives a shit how much you lift if you're not a good person
⚡️111-120: How to raise a good kid and parent as a team
⚡️121-133: The TPS Method
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| 0:00.0 | Shrugged family, we are back for another episode Saturday. |
| 0:04.7 | Shrugged. |
| 0:05.7 | Getting to hang out with CJ Murphy today. |
| 0:08.5 | We were up in Boston right before we went to the Strong New York event and walked into |
| 0:16.6 | CJ Murphy's gym and holy crap. |
| 0:20.5 | There are a ton of strong people in there. |
| 0:23.6 | I literally was going to the bathroom and overheard a conversation of two dudes, one of |
| 0:29.3 | which was trying to squat 750 that day and another guy was trying to squat 800. |
| 0:34.1 | That's a lot of weight. |
| 0:36.0 | I can't do that. |
| 0:37.0 | That's almost double what I've ever done in my entire life. |
| 0:40.4 | That's ridiculous. |
| 0:42.8 | I think that this conversation is hysterical. |
| 0:47.0 | CJ Murphy has been around weight rooms his entire life. |
| 0:50.5 | He's been around powerlifting his entire life. |
| 0:53.4 | He knows all the big names of powerlifting and it is incredibly cool sitting down. |
| 0:59.2 | And just having a conversation with somebody that is so deep into a world that you know |
| 1:04.0 | very little about. |
| 1:06.0 | Additionally, I was sitting in a barber seat. |
| 1:10.6 | Doug and I walked into CJ Murphy's office and he has four bass guitars hanging on the |
| 1:17.1 | wall and two completely badass looking barber seats. |
| 1:22.9 | And we just set up shop. |
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