Training vs. CrossFit with Tanner Shuck | Starting Strength Radio #275

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Mark Rippetoe

Strength, Fitness, Barbell, Training, Fitness & Nutrition, Health

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🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Rip discusses Tanner Shuck's journey from football player to CrossFit athlete to coach. They delve into the issues with high-intensity workouts focused on speed and maximum reps, highlighting how these practices often lead to injuries and why they don’t qualify as effective training.

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0:00.0	From the Asgard Company Studios in beautiful Wichita Falls, Texas, from the finest mind in the modern fitness industry, the one true voice in the strength and conditioning profession, the most important podcast on the Internet.
0:17.6	Ladies and gentlemen, starting strength radio.
0:25.6	Welcome back to starting strength radio.
0:28.6	We are here this week with Tanner Shook.
0:31.6	Tanner is a former CrossFit competitor,
0:34.6	high level CrossFit competitor,
0:36.6	and we are going to talk to Tanner about
0:39.9	training and cross-fit, or more probably training versus cross-fit. Tanner, thanks for being here,
0:49.3	man.
0:49.7	Mr. Hippet was an honor. Can't believe I'm even sitting here, actually.
0:52.9	I can't either.
0:55.2	I can't either. It's here, actually. I can't either. I can't either.
0:56.4	It's 100 degrees outside.
0:58.4	I can't believe anything right now.
1:01.6	Yeah.
1:02.4	So anyway, man, I appreciate your coming down.
1:05.1	Absolutely.
1:05.5	What, uh, give us, uh, a little overview of your background. let's uh i'll keep it brief so i've been
1:16.4	training my whole life essentially i played college football i played football through
1:21.5	a kid through high school played down at rice university all four years and then once i realized I couldn't cut it playing football, I just did the next best
1:30.7	thing I could.
1:31.3	And that's kind of when CrossFit was really becoming popular.
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