The Single Thing That Makes the Squat the Most Effective Exercise for Strength w/ Dan John, Anders Varner, and Doug Larson, and Travis Mash - Barbell Shrugged- #482
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2020
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Dan John has spent his life with one foot in the world of lifting and throwing, and the other foot in academia. An All-American discus thrower, Dan has also competed at the highest levels of Olympic lifting, Highland Games and the Weight Pentathlon, an event in which he holds the American record.
Dan spends his work life blending weekly workshops and lectures with full-time writing, and is also an online religious studies instructor for Columbia College of Missouri. As a Fulbright Scholar, he toured the Middle East exploring the foundations of religious education systems. Dan is also a Senior Lecturer for St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London.
His books, on weightlifting, include Intervention, Never Let Go, Mass Made Simple and Easy Strength, written with Pavel Tsatsouline as well as From Dad, To Grad. He and Josh Hillis co-authored “Fat Loss Happens on Monday.”
In 2015, Dan wrote Can You Go? on his approach to assessments and basic training. In addition, Before We Go, another compilation akin to Never Let Go became an Amazon Bestseller.
In early 2017, Dan’s book, Now What?, his approach to Performance and dealing with “life,” became a Bestseller on Amazon. Hardstyle Kettlebell Challenge became available in September 2017, too.
In today’s episode the crew discusses:
Simplifying complex systems for strength
The importance of gymnastics and tumbling for adults
Throwers, Special Operations, and Olympic Lifting
The importance of writing books for strength and conditioning
What separates the squat from every other exercise
The importance of the hands in maximal strength
And more…
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Shrug family, danjon on the show today. This dude is a legend. He's written multiple books. |
| 0:07.6 | Probably best known for simplifying this crazy world of strength into these simple little |
| 0:12.3 | solutions that make a massive difference in the longevity, health of your joints. Today we |
| 0:17.4 | talked to him for almost two hours. The guy has a lifetime of strength and I'm so stoked that I was |
| 0:22.7 | able to talk to him. Record it, bring it to you on barbell shrug. But before we get rolling, I want |
| 0:29.2 | to thank our friends over at Fit Together. I'm going to be giving away a massive deal for |
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