The Mad Scientist of Strength ft. Chris Duffin
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
What exactly does it take these days to be nicknamed the Mad Scientist? Are we talking Doc Brown in a DeLorean cruising through a space-time continuum, or is it more of a beaker and test tube vibe?
Whatever the case, we're stoked to have the modern-day Mad Scientist and world-renowned strength athlete and coach Chris Duffin on the Brute Strength podcast this week for his second episode.
In Chris' first episode, we learned about the upbringing that shaped his mentality for creating Kabuki Strength. This week, we're talking shop on increasing your strength, the correlation between whiskey and deadlifts, working around your injuries and the benefits of a ShouldeRök (not to be confused with the popular dance movement based on rocking your shoulder back and forth—if you're feeling it though, do you).
Topics:
01:20 – "Whiskey and Deadlifts"
10:30 – Shiny object syndrome
15:20 – Minimum effective dose principle
22:00 – Benefits of a ShouldeRök
54:30 – Functional Range Conditioning (FRC)
58:00 – Hamstring tears and rehab
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The Obstacle Is the Way – Ryan Holiday
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.4 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, 2012 and 2013 CrossFit Games Channel, Michael Cajou. |
| 0:19.6 | Mind, Body, brute. |
| 0:25.1 | Welcome back. This is Mike Cashew and you're listening to the Brute Strength |
| 0:28.5 | podcast. This is round two with Chris Duffin. |
| 0:32.5 | Chris is the owner of Kabuki Strength as well as a world record holder. |
| 0:38.3 | He's the only human being ever to deadlift over a thousand pounds for multiple reps. |
| 0:45.3 | He got two reps, almost three, and he's one of the greatest power lifters of all time. |
| 0:51.3 | In our first episode, we talked all about his upbringing and just his personal story. |
| 0:58.6 | And the reason I wanted to break it up into two pieces is he just has an absolutely incredible |
| 1:05.2 | story to tell. And I felt it would be a disservice to you and to him to just kind of breeze over that |
| 1:12.4 | in a couple questions. So you can listen to that in the earlier episode that we did. |
| 1:18.7 | This one's all about equipment and biomechanics and injury prevention and just exercise science |
| 1:26.2 | in general. And this is a topic, specifically, |
| 1:29.5 | equipment is a topic I almost never talk about with people because I'm usually |
| 1:33.7 | uninterested. But with Chris, he understands biomechanics extremely well. And so I felt like |
| 1:39.4 | there would be some really cool things to learn from a guy like this because he is trying to |
| 1:45.0 | understand it from a coaching perspective, an athlete perspective, and also from the perspective |
| 1:51.0 | of a manufacturer. So we start out talking about blog posts actually that he made on drinking |
| 2:00.0 | whiskey before deadlifting and I thought it would |
| 2:05.1 | it would be kind of a joke but we get into quite a long discussion about why this is actually |
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