What It Takes to Be a Great Athlete and Coach w/Jason Leydon, Anders Varner, Doug Larson — Barbell Shrugged #409
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Founder and head trainer at CrossFit Milford in Milford CT, which has been to the games 4 times and has had athletes at the games 10 years in a row. Team CrossFit Milford finished 2nd in the world in 2015 and Jason has produced 9 podium finishers.
His professional focus is on personalized strength, conditioning and movement quality which ensures the foundation is properly built on an individual level so each athlete can reach genetic and athletic potential. He is an established, knowledgeable and respected teacher, coach and resource in the global fitness community. Jason earned his degree in Physical Education and Health from Eastern CT State University where he also played basketball.
In this episode of Barbell Shrugged the crew digs into coaching CrossFit games athletes, the journey of a professional CrossFit Coach, and managing business, life, fatherhood, and fitness.
Minute Breakdown:
0-10 – Why to be a great athlete you have to be selfish
11-20 – Progressing as a CrossFit Coach and always learning
21-30 – Why CrossFit the best athletes in CrossFit have mastered play
41-50 - Building programming buy in with athletes
51 -60 - Staying up to the times in CrossFit and learning the skills needed to coach the best athletes
61 -70 - Soft skills and language to make athletes better
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One Ton Challenge Weekend
August 1st - 4th
Find your 1rm in the snatch, clean, jerk, squat, dead, bench.
Add them up to find your One Ton Total.
The goal is 2,000 pounds for men and 1,200 for women.
4 days. 6 lifts. 1 goal. 1 Ton.
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"What is the One Ton Challenge"
"How do I Start the One Ton Challenge"
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| 0:00.0 | August 1st to August 4th, the one-ton challenge in your backyard. |
| 0:05.6 | Four days to find a one-wrap max of the snatch, clean jerk squat, deadlift and bench press. |
| 0:13.2 | You're going to add them all up, find your one-ton total with the goal for men being |
| 0:17.9 | 2,000 pounds and ladies, 1200. |
| 0:21.2 | The leaderboard goes live on Thursday, August 1st and shuts down on Sunday, August 4th. |
| 0:29.4 | If you're going to be at the CrossFit Games, make sure you come and hang out with us, the |
| 0:32.4 | one-ton challenge live at the CrossFit Games Friday, August 2nd from 5 to 8 pm in the |
| 0:39.2 | fitted lounge. |
| 0:40.2 | It's going to be so much fun. |
| 0:42.6 | West Kits is in the House, Morgan King, Katie Cork, Savage Barbell, whoop, fitted. |
| 0:49.7 | So many cool companies, Rommel, it's going to be in the mix. |
| 0:52.1 | We've got a stacked lineup of incredibly strong people that we're bringing straight to |
| 0:56.1 | you. |
| 0:57.1 | Make sure you get over to live. |
| 0:58.3 | 1tonchallenge.com, register for the leaderboard, get your name in the mix, free downloads, |
| 1:03.6 | making strong people stronger. |
| 1:05.0 | That's a killer ebook with Starter Kit on how to get strong and how to dominate the |
| 1:10.0 | one-ton challenge. |
| 1:11.2 | It's been awesome. |
| 1:12.2 | Week 1 is in the books with all the new shows, Jason Calipa on Mondays, Ryan Fisher, |
| 1:18.2 | Tuesday, Shrug Wednesdays, Thursday, the Muscle Maven, Friday. |
| 1:23.0 | Friday. |
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