The Path to IFBB Pro w/ Aaron Starker, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash #814
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Aaron Straker is a N.A.S.N. Licensed Primary Sports Nutritionist. He prefers a pragmatic approach to nutrition that focuses on simple food selection, the importance of nutrient density, and the importance of objectivity in dieting and reporting.
Today on Barbell Shrugged we dive into Straker’s path to becoming and IFBB Pro. From injury, setbacks, discipline, and his transparent usage of performance enhancing drugs.
He is the cohost of Eat, Train, Prosper podcast with Barbell Shrugged guest, Bryan Boorstein.
Operating Straker Nutrition Company, he provides nutrition coaching programs and education on exactly how to leverage nutrition for improving body composition safely and sustainably.
Aaron is passionate about providing sound education and information in the fitness and nutrition space and putting nutrition at the forefront for producing optimal health.
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| 0:00.0 | Shrek family this week on Barbell Shrug, a very good friend of mine. |
| 0:04.0 | We actually even competed on the same team in like 2015 CrossFit regionals. |
| 0:13.0 | That's a long time ago. That's like a whole lifetime ago of fitness. |
| 0:17.0 | Aaron Stricker, one of my best stories of a human being that walked into the gym, |
| 0:22.7 | found himself in the fitness space, and is an absolute monster. |
| 0:27.4 | Not only is he now an IFBV Pro, which we're going to be talking about at length |
| 0:32.5 | and how he set his goals to become an actual IFBBBB Pro, but also, man, he's really, really good at what he does as far as nutrition, coaching, one of the best in the business. |
| 0:46.2 | And I'm very stoked to have him on the show today. |
| 0:49.2 | As always, friends, make sure you get over to rapid health report.com. |
| 0:52.9 | That's where Dan Garner, Dr. Andy Galpinter, doing a free lab, lifestyle, and performance analysis, |
| 0:56.6 | and you can access that at rapid health report.com. Friends, let's get into the show. |
| 1:04.8 | Welcome to Mark, Mel Strugg. I'm Andrews Warner, Doug Larson, my homie, the ultimate homie. |
| 1:09.4 | Aaron Stranger, dude, I don't even know how to stop. |
| 1:12.4 | You are the most jacked human I have ever been a part of for like the last decade of my life. |
| 1:19.4 | And you are a monster now. |
| 1:22.2 | I need to know how I get super jacked like you. |
| 1:25.7 | You just recently, what, like a month ago, got your IFBB ProCard and lots of things to dig |
| 1:32.2 | into, man. |
| 1:32.7 | I want to know when, when all this, when did the idea, when did the light flicker? |
| 1:36.8 | When did the stoke hit the flame to stand on stage and look as yoked as you do? |
| 1:42.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:43.4 | So it wasn't, it was really, I had this, man, so I've been living in Bali now for |
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