Useful Fitness Standards w/ Dr. Mike Lane, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Coach Travis Mash #819
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, the team breaks down what it means to build and maintain essential fitness, the baseline level of strength, endurance, and resilience every person should strive for. They discuss how to train efficiently using the minimum effective dose, balancing work, family, and recovery while still progressing.
The conversation covers the principles behind durable fitness, how to set meaningful performance standards, and why consistency and movement quality matter more than perfection. They also explore the foundations of long-term athletic development and how to build capable, confident humans from youth to adulthood.
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| 0:00.0 | Shrug family this week on Barbell Shrug. |
| 0:02.6 | Dr. Mike Lane is coming back on the show. |
| 0:04.9 | And today we are talking about standards for your health, |
| 0:08.7 | thinking into kind of a bunch of arenas. |
| 0:10.4 | And then we spent a bunch of time at the end of this thing talking about youth development, |
| 0:15.0 | how we think about this stuff with our own kids. |
| 0:17.2 | It's kind of like a massive topic amongst the group on how to train your kids and get |
| 0:23.3 | them all the athleticism and good habits and all of those fun pieces. So jam-pack show, |
| 0:29.2 | as always, friends, make sure you get over to rapid health report.com. That's where Dan Garder, |
| 0:32.8 | Dr. Andy Galpin, are doing a free lab, lifestyle, and performance analysis. And you can access that over at rapid health report.com friends. |
| 0:40.0 | Let's get to the show. |
| 0:43.2 | Welcome to Marvell Shrugged. |
| 0:44.6 | We got it right, Colton. |
| 0:45.6 | I'm Anders Warner. |
| 0:46.7 | Doug Larson, Coach, Matt, Dr. Mike, Lane, dude, you guys can't see him listening to Barbell Shrugged on the way to work right now. |
| 0:53.8 | This dude has a sick push broom right on his upper lip right now that clean out a garage |
| 1:00.2 | if you were dragging him by his feet. |
| 1:02.3 | It is so fresh. |
| 1:04.9 | Today on Barbell Shrugged. |
| 1:07.7 | For all you parents that have businesses, to go to work how do we do all |
| 1:11.8 | of the fitness things and some standards of health break it down my man what do these parents do |
| 1:16.2 | what are they what are they supposed to be tracking here so like anything else this kind of happened |
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